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Circuit Court clerk seeks four staff positions amid dispute over fee funding
Summary
Circuit Court representatives asked the Budget & Finance Committee to fund four full-time positions using excess 2024 fee revenue and first-quarter FY26 collections; finance said it had not completed a review and the committee sent the request to the full commission without a recommendation.
Circuit Court Chief Administrative Officer Michael Burnett Joyner and administrative assistant Fred Doris pressed the Budget & Finance Committee on Oct. 22 to approve four full-time positions for the Circuit Court Clerk’s office, saying those roles could be funded from fees the office collected in 2024 and from stronger-than-projected FY2026 first-quarter receipts.
Joyner recounted the history: the commission adopted a December 2024 resolution that…
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