Drafter
Clerk 03/03/2009
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A MOTION approving the department of community and human services's, in conjunction with the office of management and budget, report and the proposed recommendations to the contract payment allocations for independent public defense contractors
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WHEREAS, the King County council included a proviso within the office of the public defender's section of Ordinance 16312 adopting the 2009 budget, and
WHEREAS, the proviso requires the office of the public defender to extend 2008 contracts by amendment "until the council receives and approves by motion the components and justification for each component that will be used to develop the indigent defense contracts between King County and the nonprofit defense corporations," and
WHEREAS, "These components shall be consistent with the model adopted by the council in Motion 12160," and
WHEREAS, the report shall be "developed by the department of community and human services, in conjunction with the office of management and budget" to "include current data and input from the contract defense contractors and the King County Bar Association," and
WHEREAS, the "data shall include, but not be limited to, information on caseload, staffing and calendaring of cases for felony, complex felony, juvenile, misdemeanant, involuntary treatment, persistent offender and dependency cases," and
WHEREAS, the executive has transmitted to council a report complying with the requirements of the proviso, and
WHEREAS, the King County council finds that the proposed reimbursement methodology and cost changes to the 2009 Executive Proposed Budget;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The department of community and human services's, in conjunction with the
office of management and budget, report regarding proposed recommendations to the contract payment methodology and budget modification is hereby approved.