King County - File #: 2009-0176

• File #: 2009-0176
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/9/2009
• In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
• Final action: 6/1/2009
• Enactment date: 6/10/2009
• Enactment #: 16542
• Title: AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $19,706,096 to the office of the public defender; to enter into contracts for indigent defense services with four defender agencies to begin July 1, 2009, implementing recommended changes to the public defense funding model; amending the 2009 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16312, Section 49, as amended.
• Sponsors: Larry Gossett
• Indexes: Appropriation, Contracts, Public Defense
• Staff: Hamacher, Patrick

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/1/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
6/1/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
5/19/2009	2	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
5/5/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
4/7/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
3/9/2009	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 05/26/2009
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AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $19,706,096 to the office of the public defender; to enter into contracts for indigent defense services with four defender agencies to begin July 1, 2009, implementing recommended changes to the public defense funding model; amending the 2009 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16312, Section 49, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. There is hereby approved and adopted an ordinance making a supplemental appropriation of $19,706,096 to the office of the public defender appropriation unit of the general fund, contracts for indigent defense services with four defender agencies to begin July 1, 2009, implementing recommended changes to the public defense funding model.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 16312, Section 49, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER - From the general fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Office of the public defender $19,706,096
ER1 PROVIDED THAT:
Of this appropriation, $250,000 shall be expended solely for the costs associated with hiring an outside expert consultant to oversee a study of the county's public defense payment model and to consider and make recommendations on whether the county should move to a case-weighting methodology in paying for public defense services.
P1 PROVIDED THAT:
Of this appropriation, funding for contracts between the office of public defense and the public defense nonprofit corporations that provide indigent defense services for King County shall be expended solely on contracts that ensure that expedited gross misdemeanor cases resulting from the prosecuting attorney's filing and disposition standards ("FADS") continue to be reimbursed using the existing case credit, and not calendar-basis, reimbursement methods and shall also ensure that clerical staffing levels are reimbursed at the levels generated by the 2...