You are the director of a human service agency that offers day care to Alzheimer’s patients. The federal budget crisis has just announced a $750,000 reduction in funding to your organization. Discuss the implications of the cutback on your agency and its programs in a line-item budget system, a functional budget system and a program budgeting system. You present the information and implications to your program staff and divide them into small groups to propose at least one possible way to re-structure the agency and/or program to deal with the cutback—one group in a line-item budget process, one group in a functional budget process and one group in a program budget process. Below describe at least one of the implications of the $750,00 cutback in each of the three major budgeting
systems and next to each budget system and its implication list the possible way to re-structure that your staff proposes.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Implications: 1) line-item budgeting system--reduce by 1.5 FTEs the number of staff; 2) functional budget system—reduce by 2,000 the number of days of service; 3) program budget system—reduce by 150 the number of clients who attend the program daily.
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