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ADMINISTRATIVE, FINANCIAL
AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES
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Central administrative, financial, and other support services provide overall planning, policy determination, direction, and leadership to the Institution; management of its resources; and evaluation of its work.  These units furnish legal counsel, financial management, public information, and other administrative, professional, and technical services required to support the Smithsonian's programs, to maintain, operate, and protect its physical plant; to perform health and safety services; and to assure that the Institution complies with all appropriate laws and regulations and is fully accountable for its actions.

These units include the [[underlined]] central management offices [[/underlined]] provided by the Offices of the Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Administration, General Counsel, Treasurer, Coordinator of Public Information including Congressional Liaison, and Director of Facilities Services.  They also include the following [[underlined]] specialized administrative and technical offices [[/underlined]]:  Accounting and Financial Services, Audits, Contracts, Equal Opportunity, Grants and Risk Management, Information Resource Management, Management Analysis, Personnel Administration, Printing and Photographic Services, Programming and Budget, Public Affairs and Special Events, Supply Services, and Travel Services.

Support services also consist of three major [[underlined]] facilities offices [[/underlined]]:  Design and Construction, Plant Services, and Protection, with primary orientation to the physical plant and its contents and to safety and health services for visitors and staff.  To be consistent with budge presentations, resources associated with the Office of Horticulture and South Group Building Management are included in the tables of this chapter as part of physical plant services.  These latter two organizations are supervised by the Assistant Secretary for Museum Programs.

[[underlined]] Current Resources and Support [[/underlined]]

These organizations units had FY 1982 resources totaling about $53,400,000 (including $13,000,000 for utility and communications costs) and 1,412 full-time employees.  of this total, approximately $46,200,000 and 1,237 full-time employees are provided from appropriated funds and $7,200,000 and 175 employees are allocated within the Institution's nonappropriated trust fund budget.  A breakdown of resources (before application of overhead recovery) follows: