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Clerk says court fees and BECCA reimbursements unpredictable; court-facilitator appointments are a growing revenue source
Summary
County clerk and finance staff told commissioners that fee revenues are hard to forecast because caseloads vary; BECCA reimbursements and an increase in appointments with the court facilitator for pro se divorce filings have added revenues but also face potential offset from newly available legal clinics.
The county clerk told the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday that revenue from court fees is difficult to predict because the number and types of cases vary, but that several smaller revenue streams are helping the office this year.
"It's really hard to determine what our budget's gonna be with that. We don't know how many divorces we're gonna file," Clerk Stacy Michael Busk said, describing volatility in case types and counts that drive fee revenue for copies, filings and other services.
Finance staff reported specific variances: a fines-and-penalties line had a $12,000 budget and had collected about $23,000 so far; miscellaneous revenue recorded roughly $13,000 to date, of which about $11,000 came from BECCA funding reimbursed by the state for…
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