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Summary of Changes from FY11 to FY12
$ Millions
FY11 Total Actual $211.5
Chan
g
es to Base Activit
y
$2.1
$4.2
$3.0
$1.1
$4.6
$2.6
($1.5)
$0.4
$16.5
$228.0
New Activit
y
$3.7
($0.9)
$2.8
FY12 Budget before Reductions $230.7
FY12 Reduction ($5.5)
FY12 Final Budget $225.3
Salary (vacant positions and returning employees from SAM project)
Benefits
Fuel, Power and Utilities
Inflation of Prior Year expenses including labor
Cost for NEC Advisor
y
Commission
(
Costs are offset b
y
reimbursable revenue
)
Credit Card Commissions (based on revenue)
Total FY12 Base Activity
Financing Related Expense
Total FY12 New Activity
Stategic Asset Management implentation savings
Professional Fees (portion of reduction offsets employees returning from SAM project)
Other
Base Activity Increase/(Decrease) from Prior Year
Capital Projects: Finance
$ Millions
Program Title Project GCAP
State, Local
& Other Total
Amtrak Performance Tracking BPC/APT Conversion to SAP Code block $0.0 $0.4 $0.4
Chief Financial Officer $0.0 $0.4 $0.4
BPC/APT Conversion to SAP Code Block ($0.4M) – The Strategic Asset Management (SAM) system
currently being implemented at Amtrak will replace the existing General Ledger Accounting System with
SAP’ s GL module and will include a new budgeting system: SAP’ s PBF module (Public Budget
Formulation). Amtrak has two existing SAP BPC appsets, APT and FINGATE, each containing multiple
applications that have established reports and input templates, dimensions, logic, Data Manager packages,
SSIS packages, SQL stored procedures, etc. This project is to make modifications to applications in both
appsets as required by implementing the new GL and PBF modules.
Government Affairs and Corporate Communications
Overview of the Department
The Government Affairs Department is divided into three functional areas: Government Affairs,
Corporate Communications, and Great American Stations. During FY12 the Government Affairs
department will be assuming the staff and responsibilities for off-corridor state partnerships from the
recently dissolved Policy & Development department.
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Government Affairs: Federal grants account for almost half of Amtrak’ s overall budget. The Department
provides Congress and the Administration with funding requests and documentation required to support
the requests, prepares for related hearings before House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and
responds to follow-up questions from the Committees. The Department makes annual legislative requests
and follows through with appropriate Congressional staff at each stop of the way. When multi-year