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.., . . <br /> ••,":; 114 E OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER <br /> 1.0 <br /> DISTRICT 19 <br /> 2500 South 35th Street—Fort Pierce,FL 34981-5573 <br /> (772)464-7378 •Fax(772)464-2409 <br /> '14.°00w.190/ <br /> Roger E.Mittleman,M.D. Linda Rush O'Neil,M.D. <br /> Chief Medical Examiner Associate Medical Examiner <br /> March 26, 2015 <br /> Mr. Jason Brown <br /> Director of Management &Budget <br /> Board of County Commissioners <br /> Indian River County <br /> 1840 25th Street <br /> Vero Beach, FL 32960-3365 <br /> Dear Mr. Brown: <br /> I am submitting the District 19 Medical Examiners fiscal year 2015-2016 budget to the Indian River <br /> County Board of County Commissioners for approval. <br /> The adjusted request after subtracting the credited unused funds for Indian River County is $324,199.00 <br /> an 8.55% increase. The reason behind the adjustment is mainly due to a large increase in health care <br /> costs, less in credited unused funds (for the last two years), and a three percent COLA for most <br /> employees. <br /> We have been advised by our health care provider, St. Lucie County to increase our health insurance <br /> costs by 35% of last year's actual cost to the Medical Examiner. <br /> Please take into account the following: <br /> • We are still considerably below our budget request from 2009-10 of$362,326. <br /> • Please note that our workload has considerably increased by 19% since 2005. (See Chart A). <br /> • Our staff size has only increased from nine full-time employees in 2005 to nine full-time <br /> employees and one part-time employee to date. <br /> • <br /> The increased volume of overall cases stresses our capacity to produce the required quality of our work <br /> product. I believe a three percent COLA will encourage our hard-working employees to continue their <br /> good work. <br /> The Medical Examiner is trying to hold the line on increasing budgetary requests as we have done over <br /> the years for our operating expenses. We are very grateful for the support of Indian River State College <br /> and appreciate the opportunity to educate their nursing and.EMT students and also the medical students <br /> from the Florida State University School of Medicine (Ft. Pierce campus). However, with increasing <br /> SERVING...INDIAN RIVER,MARTIN,OKEECHOBEE AND ST.LUCIE COUNTIES 114 <br />