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Committee weighs staffing requests for Office of the Defender General and Attorney General pre-charge expansion
Summary
Members discussed adding limited-service positions to the Office of the Defender General and the Attorney General’s pre-charge program, asked for cost alternatives and follow-up from agency staff, and agreed to evaluate reduced or time-limited positions before finalizing funding.
Budget negotiators discussed staffing proposals for the Office of the Defender General and the Attorney General’s office, including a limited-service position tied to home-repair fraud work and expansion of a pre-charge pilot in additional counties.
Speaker 2, Committee member, said the office requested two positions (a pre-charge position and a solicitor general position) but the committee is considering a limited-service approach and asked agency staff (including Todd) to prioritize which single position would be most important if the committee could fund only one. Speaker 2 said, "Extend it 1 time limited service position. And then the question is if they could only get 1 more position, what would it be?"
Members also discussed whether a $300,000 request for expanding pre-charge services could instead be reduced; Speaker 1 suggested a lower amount ("50" was mentioned) might cover expansion to two counties that are ready without adding a full 300,000 position. The committee asked staff to follow up with Todd and agency administration and return with cost options and implementation details. No formal vote was recorded in the transcript.
