Joint Committee on Appropriations January 2019 South Dakota - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Joint Committee on Appropriations January 2019

Mission: Keeping South Dakota a Safe Place to Live, Work, Visit and Raise a Family.

South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Department of Public Safety

The department contains 13 agencies spread across five divisions:

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Administration/Secretariat: – Admin/Finance/Legal /Communications Highway Patrol: – Highway Patrol – State Radio Dispatch – Office of Highway Safety – Accident Records Emergency Services: – Office of Emergency Management – Office of Homeland Security – State Fire Marshal Legal & Regulatory Services: – Driver Licensing – Victims’ Services – Weights and Measures – Inspections Program 9-1-1 Coordination

Department of Public Safety Successes

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Meth Interdiction

• In 2017 the Highway Patrol

hired four troopers whose sole focus is removing methamphetamine (meth) from South Dakota's roadways.

• The four troopers are

stationed in Belle Fourche, Rapid City, Watertown and Vermillion.

• Since 2017, these four

troopers have made 1,961 drug arrests and removed 182.5 pounds of meth from the highways.

• They also seized 2,376 pounds
• f other drugs.

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Roadway Fatality Reduction

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Innovation in GIS

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

The Office of Emergency Management received a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award from Esri, a GIS company. The office has used the Esri GIS technology to enhance the state’s capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Training and Exercises

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

The Office of Homeland Security facilitated several trainings and exercises over the last year, all aimed at helping us to be prepared for a variety of man- made threats.

• Statewide SWAT training;
• Over 300 hours of ALICE (Alert, Lockdown,

Inform, Counter, Evacuate) training for schools, healthcare providers, businesses, churches, state agencies and other

• rganizations;
• Active Threat Plan writing course, along

with numerous tabletop exercises across the state;

• multi-jurisdictional improvised explosive

device security planning series for both sides of the state.

TSA Fingerprinting

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

• A TSA-based background check is required

for CDL holders with a hazardous materials endorsement.

• The private company providing TSA

fingerprinting for western South Dakota has

• closed. Only one private company in Sioux

Falls was left to provide the service.

• Driver Licensing worked with TSA to

become a certified fingerprinting site at the Rapid City exam station, thus providing a critical service to western South Dakotans.

Grant Accountability

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• Victims’ Services, as part of its move to DPS, now

requires supporting documentation from subgrantees prior to making grant payments to ensure that funding is used only for grant- allowable expenditures.

• The Office of Highway Safety recently received a national record of

five commendations from The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) following its triennial federal management review of all Highway Safety internal practices, financial transactions, and compliance with federal code and regulation.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Department Budget

(pg. 1 LRC Budget Brief)

$69.3 million total FY 20 budget request

General Funds $ 4,556,967 7% Federal Funds $26,016,464 37% Other Funds $38,696,728 56% Total $69,270,159

The DPS general fund budget is $4.6 million of the total $1.7 billion state

• budget. This equates to .3 % of the total state general fund budget.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Administration Division

(pg. 5-8 LRC Budget Brief)

➢ Includes Office of the Secretary, Finance, Legal and Communications. ➢ Funding Sources:

• General Funds – 13%
• Federal Funds – 14%
• Other Funds – 73%

➢ FY19 Request:

• $30,000 Other Funds – to align spending with actual

expenditures.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Highway Patrol Division

(pg. 9-14 LRC Budget Brief)

➢ Includes Highway Patrol, Accident Records, Highway Safety and State Radio. ➢ Funding Sources:

• General Funds – 4%
• Federal Funds – 23%
• Other Funds – 73%

➢ FY19 Request:

• $480,000 Federal Funds for Motor Carrier – this will align the budget with

a change in the federal motor carrier grant, which has allowed more personal services to be charged to the grant.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Highway Patrol Division

(pg. 9-14 LRC Budget Brief)

➢ FY19 Request continued:

• $130,861 General Funds for State Radio – due to a request from the

Pennington County Emergency Services Center (ESCC) to increase their contract.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Emergency Services & Homeland Security Division

(pg. 15-20 LRC Budget Brief)

➢ Includes the Office of Emergency Management, State Fire Marshal and the Office of Homeland Security. ➢ Funding Sources:

• General Funds – 12%
• Federal Funds – 85%
• Other Funds – 3%

➢ FY19 Request:

• $30,000 Federal Funds reduction – moved $30,000 in budget authority

from Homeland Security to Administration.

• 2 FTE requested – add FTE under Fire Marshal’s Office for the boiler

inspectors.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Legal & Regulatory Services Division

(pg. 15-20 LRC Budget Brief)

➢ Includes Weights & Measures, Driver Licensing, State Inspections and Victims’ Services. ➢ Funding Sources:

• General Funds – 8%
• Federal Funds – 46%
• Other Funds – 46%

➢ FY19 Request:

• $11,978 General Funds – this is the increase of 2.3% for provider inflation

related to the Victims Compensation Fund.

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South Dakota Department of Public Safety

Special Appropriations Requests

The department will be asking for your support on two special appropriations bills this year: ➢ State Metrology Lab:

• $1,660,000.
• The lab verifies the accuracy of standards (weighing devices/equipment)

used by our state inspection program and private service agents to ensure fair competition between businesses and consumers. ➢ Disaster Fund:

• $550,596.
• Funding will cover the shortfall anticipated from our current open disaster

declarations.

• The disaster fund is backfilled with general funds as needed.

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Questions?