2009 Kitsap County Budget Book - Kitsap County Government
2009 Kitsap County Budget Book - Kitsap County Government
2009 Kitsap County Budget Book - Kitsap County Government
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SUPERIOR COURT<br />
I. <strong>Budget</strong> Overview<br />
Expenditures<br />
<strong>Budget</strong> Summary<br />
Summary by Category<br />
Drug Court<br />
$105,495<br />
Superior Court<br />
$2,812,210<br />
<strong>2009</strong> <strong>Budget</strong><br />
$2,917,705<br />
2008 <strong>Budget</strong><br />
$2,997,550<br />
Change from 2008 to <strong>2009</strong><br />
($79,845)<br />
Services &<br />
Charges<br />
$325,480<br />
11%<br />
Supplies<br />
$27,230<br />
1%<br />
Benefits<br />
$595,683<br />
20%<br />
Interfund<br />
Services<br />
$119,783<br />
4%<br />
Salaries<br />
$1,849,529<br />
64%<br />
Drug Court<br />
Grants and<br />
Fees for<br />
Service<br />
$77,000<br />
Revenue<br />
Superior Court<br />
Grants and<br />
Reimbursements<br />
$52,535<br />
<strong>2009</strong> FTEs: 27.5<br />
2008 FTEs: 28.5<br />
<strong>2009</strong> Unfunded FTEs: 2.50<br />
2008 Unfunded FTEs: 1.50<br />
<strong>Kitsap</strong> <strong>County</strong> Superior Court<br />
Percentage of <strong>2009</strong> <strong>County</strong> GF <strong>Budget</strong><br />
Superior Court<br />
$2,917,705<br />
3%<br />
<strong>Kitsap</strong> <strong>Budget</strong><br />
$88,404,529<br />
97%<br />
Historical Trends/Industry Standards<br />
12000<br />
10000<br />
8000<br />
6000<br />
4000<br />
2000<br />
0<br />
Superior Court Cases Filed, Disposed<br />
and Year-End Pending, 2001-2008<br />
9918 10211<br />
10131<br />
10037<br />
9925<br />
9477<br />
9554<br />
9673<br />
9720<br />
9523<br />
9897<br />
9598<br />
2003<br />
4022<br />
2004<br />
4352<br />
2005<br />
4573<br />
Year<br />
2006<br />
4473<br />
2007<br />
Total Filings Total Dispositions Total Pending<br />
4908<br />
2008<br />
3887<br />
• Criminal felony filings decreased<br />
over the last three years, from<br />
1,976 cases filed in 2005 to<br />
1,519 cases filed in 2008.<br />
• A reduction in 2008 felony filings<br />
has provided the Court a<br />
temporary opportunity to begin<br />
reducing civil and domestic<br />
relations caseload backlogs that<br />
have grown since 2003.<br />
• The Court anticipates increases,<br />
particularly in felony, civil, and<br />
domestic relations filings, if<br />
current economic indicators<br />
continue to decline.<br />
Significant <strong>Budget</strong> Issues<br />
• In <strong>2009</strong>, the Superior Court will reduce the number of court reporters from 8 to 7, requiring a reorganization of the<br />
remaining court reporters and the creation of a court reporter supervisor position under the direction of the Superior<br />
Court Administrator.<br />
• The Court will use some savings from the court reporter reduction to install a second digital recording system in the<br />
downtown courthouse as a means of reducing court reporter pro tem expenditures.<br />
• The Court is transferring $200,000 from its Special Legal Services fund to the newly-created Public Defender’s<br />
Division of the <strong>County</strong> Clerk’s Office so that the Public Defender’s Office has direct oversight over indigent defense<br />
investigator and expert witness costs.<br />
• The Court will continue to pursue State reimbursement opportunities, similar to the Interpreter and Guardian ad Litem<br />
funding provided in 2008, to subsidize some mandates which have been historically and exclusively funded through<br />
the local General Fund.<br />
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