Jax Transition budget review: Supervisor of Elections

For the second session in a row, Jerry Holland, the outgoing Supervisor of Elections, sits in with Sam Mousa and the budget  “swat team.”

9:04: Ron Littlepage is in the house for the T-U.

9:07: Holland discusses the cyclical nature of the SOE budget. Going from three elections to two elections in a year cuts the SOE budget. The more elections, the more the budget.

9:08: Holland predicts hard increases for the SOE budget under incoming SOE Mike Hogan for “education and travel” and related costs. The office has a registration and an election budget.

9:11: Salaries have only changed slightly. OT and PT salaries go down because there are fewer elections. Longevity pay increases, for employees with over five years, are in the budget. Health Insurance and Workers Comp went up by a total of $15K. Medicare costs have been reduced. Security guard and contractual cleaning services are reduced because of the election cycle.

9:13: Mike Hogan is taking a $500 a month auto allowance. Congratulations to Mike Hogan. He also wants more of a travel budget for educational purposes; he wants to take employees to conferences for first hand information.

9:16: The guard service went up. This is a library requirement for early voting.

9:17: David Bauerlein is in the house for the T-U.

9:18: Rent at Imeson center will keep going up in the ten-year lease. Other rents, in terms of polling locations, are going down. A discussion of printing and binding follows.

9:21: Mousa: “I don’t have anything else on these numbers. They’re pretty much routine.”