Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $59,000 for additional electronic storage space. The probation department is working on going paperless by scanning documents and storing them electronically. This allows for easier access by the department and clears space for the increase in staff. These funds are collected as probation supervision fees for all individuals placed under probation supervision by the Court effective December 1, 1995. The collection of said funds was authorized by Amended Substitute House Bill Number 406, signed into law in August, 1994. The Franklin County Municipal Court Judges incorporated the collection of probation fees into Local Court Rule 13, effective December 1 1995, in the amount of $20.00 per case. During 2011, the fee for probation supervision was amended to $10.00 per month of probation and PNC fees were raised to $50.00 per case. A new fee was established of $30.00 for probation violations when probation is continued.
The Ohio Revised Code 737.41 states these funds can be used as follows: to provide for specialized probation staff, the purchase of needed equipment, services, programs, treatment and other similar probation-related expenses not currently available to the Court's probation services department.
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested.
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To authorize the appropriation of $59,000.00 for 2012 from the unappropriated balance of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges probation fee fund for additional electronic storage so that the probation department can go paperless; and to declare an emergency. ($59,000.00) (AMENDED BY ORD. 2269-2012 PASSED 11/5/2012)
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WHEREAS, an appropriation of these funds is necessary in order to continue with the enhancement of probation services and the payment thereof; and
WHERAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to undertake said acti...
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