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FROM- PHIL BATCHELOR
County Administrator Costa
DATE: March 26, 1987
SUBJECT: AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT WITK CONTRA COSTA COUNTY BAR. ASSOCIATION .
FOR CONFLICT DEFENSE SERVICES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize the County .Administrator or his designee to execute a contract amendment with the
Contra Costa County Bar Association for conflict defense services to increase the payment
limit up. to $1,250,000 for fiscal year 1986/87'.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Funds are included in the approved budget for 1986/87 to cover .the costs of the Bar
.contract .and any remaining orders for attorneys' payment for conflict cases initiated
before the .first contract became effective in 1984/85. The 1986/87 approved budget for
Budget Unit , 0248 is $1,320,000. • Of this, ... approximately 84 percent ($1,100,000) was
originally .encumbered in the County's contract'.with the Bar Association for 1986/87. This
percentage was based on an a. priori estimate' of the cost split and was developed at the
time the budget 'was adopted. Projections based on current experience indicate that the Bar
Association will require more than budgeted and the court-appointed payments will require
less.
No additional funds .need to be appropriated at this time for Budget Unit 0248. However,
the budget unit may require additional appropriations later in the fiscal year because of
payments on homicide and capital cases per the contract. We will be working closely with
the Bar Association to monitor costs during the remainder of the fiscal year.
REASONS 'FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:-
In 1983, your ' Board became very concerned about controlling the escalating costs of
court-appointed' counsel in conflict cases. As directed by your Board, the County
Administrator's Office organized a task force which recommended that the County . contract
with the Contra Costa-County Bar Association for conflict defense.services. A contract was
executed for, 1984/85.
The current contract •with the Bar . Association is operative until September 30., 1987 and
continues the current fee schedule until ,that time. The cooperation of the Contra Costa
County Bar Association and- its Conflict Program Administrator have been critical to the
County's ability to contain costs where possible, while guaranteeing constitutional
representation of indigents in conflict cases..
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
After the contract payment limit is reached, appointment and approval of payments to
private attorneys for conflict cases will revert to the method used before the 1984/85 .
contract and become a responsibility of the - judges again. . Payment of conflict attorney.
services is a mandated County cost.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT.: YES SIGNATURE: /
Y RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
_X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APR7 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT G—'I 'I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
APR 7 1987
CC: CAO-Justice System Programs ATTESTED
CCC Bar Association--Attn:. Conflict c,.I. .:Ihelor, ClerkCBoard
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Program Administrator ad County Admmstrdor
M3e2/7•83 BY _ DEPUTY