File #: 2009-0175    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 3/9/2009 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/1/2009
Enactment date: Enactment #: 13003
Title: 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
Sponsors: Larry Gossett
Indexes: Budget, Community and Human Services, Contracts, Public Defense
Attachments: 1. 13003.pdf, 2. 2009-0175 Fiscal Note.xls, 3. 2009-0175 Transmittal Letter.doc, 4. A. Response to KCC Proviso Regarding Indigent Defense Contracts with Independent Non-Profit Law Firms, 5. Staff Report 03-17-08 , 6. Staff Report 04-07-09, 7. 04-07-09 SR Attachments 1-6 .pdf, 8. Handout 04-07-09 - kcba letter , 9. Handout 04-07-09 - National Criminal Justice Commission Act..pdf, 10. Revised Staff Report 05-19-09, 11. Staff Report 05-19-09
Staff: Hamacher, Patrick
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.