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Committee backs amendment to S.109 requiring courts and judges to report county courthouse capital planning
Summary
The committee supported offering an amendment to S.109 (version 3.1) that would require the Court Administrator and a representative of the Vermont Association of County Judges to jointly report on implementation of revised capital‑budget request criteria; the committee gave a straw vote in favor, 10‑0‑1.
Eric Fitzpatrick of the Office of Legislative Council described a proposed amendment to Judiciary’s miscellaneous bill S.109 that would add criteria for how county courthouse capital requests are evaluated and require a joint report on implementation.
Fitzpatrick said the amendment (version 3.1) would ask the court administrator to consider whether a county request is consistent with a capital program under Title 24 V.S.A. §133, whether the project appears in the county’s capital list in the annual budget, and whether the county has a capital reserve fund and the amount contributed to it.…
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