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Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigence seeks more staff pay and contract funds; committee hears vacancy and special‑fund concerns
Summary
The Appropriations committee examined the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigence’s budget, focusing on pay equity, contract attorney funding and recruitment after the commission reported multiple vacancies and reliance on a special fund for private‑bar contracts.
The Appropriations - Government Operations Division reviewed the budget for the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigence and probed how funds would be used to recruit and retain attorneys and to pay private‑bar contractors.
Travis Fink, executive director of the commission, said the agency’s Armstrong‑era budget proposal increases the contract rate appropriation from $1,500,000 (Burgum budget) to $2,000,000 under Armstrong. The commission also has an $805,000 compensation strategy authorization in both budgets; Fink said the agency initially requested a substantially larger package (about $5.3 million in an earlier request) but acknowledged the $805,000 figure in the executive proposals.
Fink described the commission’s pay plan as a stepped compensation strategy for classified…
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