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Public Defender trustees review allotments, caseloads and rollout issues for new bus-pass law
Summary
At its Dec. 31 meeting the Public Defender Board heard fiscal updates showing $1,367,776 in November–December allotments, reviewed pretrial and program statistics and discussed implementation problems with a recently passed bus-pass law that provides limited transit support for clients.
The Public Defender Board of Trustees met Tuesday, Dec. 31, and heard fiscal and operational updates showing recent allotments to the Public Defender Service Corporation (PDSC), a snapshot of pretrial case volumes and early data on electronic monitoring and on-the-ground implementation issues with a recently enacted bus-pass law.
Fiscal staff reported that PDSC received November–December allotments totaling $1,367,776 and that the agency overall is operating at about 90 percent of budgeted levels (APD at about 91 percent). The fiscal report noted several program-specific funding items and outstanding invoices; staff said some contract payments from the Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) remain unpaid and that ARPA funds would be used until exhausted before drawing on some released funds. The fiscal officer provided program-level inflow figures for several grants and stated that invoices for…
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