Mandatory increases Current level A. Ingrades and reallocations Funds are requested to cover within grade increases and reallocations: B. Annualization of pay raises .... This increase is necessary to provide for annualization of the 1981 pay raises for General Schedule employees, effective October 6, 1980. Funds have been requested in through September 30, 1981. the fiscal 1981 supplemental request to cover the increases from the effective dates 22,400 Salaries ....... Personnel Benefits .... $ 20,400 Positions Special and temporary funds No. FY 1981 No. FY 1982 Increase + $ 465,000 849 $25,041,818 849 $25,506,818 (+29)+ $ 465,000 Special and temporary funds are requested to support two areas of activity which do 1. The House Commission on Information and Facilities and the Commission on the 2. Periods of heavy legislative activity results in increased Congressional demand we request $259,000 in Special and Temporary funds, enabling CRS management to hire 133. During fiscal year 1980, the Library experienced seven air fare rate increases plus 234. Non-personal services - Current level (continued) (2) Postage ...... + $ 16,000 An increase of $16,000 is requested to provide sufficient funds to maintain the current level of postage expenditures as determined by two mail samplings taken during fiscal 1980. (3) Local telephone + $ 125,800 A current level increase of $125,800 is requested to recover costs experienced in fiscal 1980 and anticipated to occur in 1981 to provide local telephone service. (4) Long distance telephone + $ 15,000 A current level increase of $15,000 is requested for recovery of long distance telephone costs experienced in fiscal 1980. Usage costs are based on Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) samplings and actual calls placed commercially. (5) Rental of equipment + $ 96,500 This amount provides for the rental of a variety of equipment, but the major cost is for the rental of word processing machines. An increase of $96,500 is requested to maintain the current level costs of equipment rental. This represents an increase of 12 percent and is based on anticipated rate increases forecast in fiscal 1981 by major equipment-leasing vendors. (6) Printing + $ 33,200 The Government Printing Office advised government agencies on May 2, 1980, in its Circular Letter No. 179, that it is forecasting an increase in government printing costs of 9 percent in fiscal 1982 over the costs for fiscal 1981. Based on that forecast, an increase of $28,700 is therefore requested for printing of publications and $4,500 for printing of forms. 135. + $ 84,000 No. FY 1981 that there has been a 21.5 percent increase in 1980 over 1979. Based on an analysis of the cost of offset reproduction work, it has been determined In order to continue our (8) Photoduplication present level of offset reproduction, we are therefore requesting an increase of $84,000. + $ 9,500 1980. An increase of 8 percent in the rates for photoduplication services has been increases. forecast based on increases experienced in the costs of labor and materials in fiscal An increase of $9,500 is therefore requested to compensate for these inflationary (9) Other services, miscellaneous + $ 18,500 The cost of providing support for Member and Congressional staff seminars, legisla- (10) Loyalty investigations + $ 5,000 charge for conducting security investigations. The Office of Personnel Management has announced a 25 percent increase in the clearances. We are therefore requesting $5,000 to cover the increased cost of securing clearances for those positions which require such (11) Tuition and training ..... + $ 11,000 An analysis of tuition fees charged by local colleges and universities attended by 136. |