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Section 1 Executive
Service Level Adjustments

SERVICE LEVEL ADJUSTMENT OVERVIEW

The Town utilizes “service level adjustments” to create an organizational outcome of being fiscal stewards and
tracking our cost increases or decreases. A service level adjustment (SLA) is a request for any dollars in excess
of the baseline/target budget.

There are 2 types of “Service Level Adjustments”.

Maintain
o Same level of service as previous year, but increased due to inflation, etc.
o Activities that require additional resources to maintain the current level of service due to
growth, new equipment, etc. are considered additions to the baseline/target budget and are
included in the “SLA”.

New or expanded level of service.
o All requests for new personnel, programs or equipment that represent a new addition to the
current operation are considered additions to the baseline/target budget and are included in
the new costs.
o Show any revenues or reduction in current expenditures the new or expanded levels of service
will create
o Designate if item represents an “Unfunded Mandate”. An unfunded mandate is a statute or
regulation that requires a state or local government to perform certain actions, yet provides no
money for fulfilling the requirements.

This budget reflects the following service level adjustments.

TOTAL ONE-TIME ON-GOING
AMOUNT AMOUNT AMOUNT
REVENUES $1,258,262 $139,734 $1,118,528

11% 89%

EXPENDITURES 4,165,034 2,731,296 1,433,740

66% 34%

NET CHANGE -$2,906,771 -$2,591,561 -$315,211
89% 11%

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