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Judges outline plan to rein in appointed-attorney costs; county departments present mostly maintenance budgets
Summary
Court administrators proposed a new in-house attorney to reduce appointed-counsel expenses; several county offices presented maintenance budgets with small targeted increases tied to state funding or equipment needs.
Boone County — Budget presenters at the Committee of the Whole on Oct. 2 described mostly maintenance budgets for the coming year while flagging a few targeted requests and new initiatives.
Courts: new staff attorney proposed Tom Jaquay, court administrator for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, told the committee he manages five budgets and proposed a “new initiative” to add a staff attorney at an annual cost of about $75,000. Jaquay said the position is intended to handle court-appointed-defense work and guardian ad litem duties that the county currently pays outside counsel to provide.
“This new initiative is fiscally responsible…by creation of another position, again, to take on that legal work,” Jaquay said. He explained the Supreme Court raised the billing rates for appointed attorneys in January…
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