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Lake Country Municipal Court judge briefs Delafield council on court finances and caseload
Summary
Judge Timothy Kaye told the Delafield council the municipal court keeps about 27% of each citation's fine revenue and that the court's budget is funded from that share; Delafield joined the court recently and has generated roughly $40,000 in the first eight months of operation.
Judge Timothy Kaye, who presides over Lake Country Municipal Court, gave a state-of-the-court presentation to the Delafield Common Council on March 3, explaining how citation fines are distributed, how the court's budget is funded and how Delafield's recent entry into the joint court has affected revenues.
Kaye said the distribution of a typical traffic fine in the court's system results in roughly 40 percent retained by the municipality that issued the ticket, about 25 percent to the state, roughly 8 percent for warrants and associated processing, and about 27 percent to Lake Country Municipal Court's budget. “On…
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