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19th JDC warns courthouse maintenance, state filings and staff cuts threaten court operations
Summary
The nineteenth Judicial District Court told the Metro Council its budget depends on roughly $6 million in city‑parish salary funding, faces deferred maintenance and rising costs from state‑filed cases that often don’t pay filing fees — officials said cuts would reduce staff and slow dockets.
Miss Gibbons, representing the nineteenth Judicial District Court, told the Metro Council that the court serves all of East Baton Rouge Parish and that two budget areas drive its need for city‑parish funding: payroll and courthouse maintenance. She said the city‑parish contributes about $6,000,000 toward salaries and benefits for the court’s key staff and that deferred maintenance — including a leaking roof — is an unmet cost for courthouse operations.
Gibbons gave workload figures to illustrate demand on the court: roughly 5,500 criminal cases per year divided across…
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