Page 41 - Pantego FY23 Budget

TOWN OF PANTEGO
ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET & PLAN OF SERVICES

FUND: General Fund - 100
DEPARTMENT: Municipal Court - 160
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Description: :
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2022-2023:
Objectives for Fiscal Year 2021-2022:
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The Court is committed to providing courteous, prompt roviding courteous, prompt Officer John Murphy to obtain Certified Court Security Specialist
The Court is committed to providing courteous, prompt roviding courteous, prompt Officer John Murphy to obtain Certified Court Security Specialist Certificate

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Officer John Murphy to obtain Certified Court Security Specialist
John Murphy
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Patty to obtain her level I Court Clerk Certification
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of due process and equality under the law..
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Remodel new office for Court
her level 1 Court Cle
and still work toward
Certification
rk
Patty to Obtain
Implement a new walk in docket once a month for individuals that have
Major
Major
Major
Major Goals: Patty to Obtain her level 1 Court Clerk Certification and still work toward
Goals:
Goals:
Goals:
her Court Interpreter license
her Court Interprete r license
warrants to help clear open cases
Review opportunities to consolidate steps in resolving cases in a timelier
better
better
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r
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to add training
to add training
ersonnel to
ersonnel to
Court P
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1. Continue
1. Continue to add training for Court Personnel to better
1. Continue to add training fo r Court P ersonnel to better manner. a P aperless Court S ystem
1. Continue
Implement
Implement a Paperless Court System
understand and perform job. ever changing job.
understand
and
and
perform the
understand and perform job.perform the ever changing job.
understand
Continue to allow defendants to communicate and submit documents
rate processing of
2. To provide
rate processing of
2. To provide timely and accura te processing of citations and through email.
2. To provide
2. To provide timely and accurate processing of citations and and
timely

timely
and accu
and accu
and
citations
citations
complaints
complaints
complaints
complaints
lower
to add to the warrant
3. Continue
3. Continue to ad to the warrant collections process to lower the
3. Continue
process
3. Continue to add to the warrant collections process to lower the
collections
to
to
process
to ad to the warrant
collections
lower
the amount of open warrants Major Budget Changes:
amount of open warrantswarrants
open
the amount
open
amount of
warrants
of
working
4. Create more workspace for workspace for the court staff, Due to the Covid 19 Pandemic the court is seeing a reduction in
Office to City
workspace
4. Move
4. Still
4. Move Office to City Hall building to create more workspace
court staff, Judge
to create
Hall building
and
the
more
more
to create
Budget Changes:

Major
Major Budget Changes:
compliance with payments, attendance at court hearings and new
osecutor
for the Court
Judge and
for the Court Staff, Judge and Prosecutor
P r osecutor P r S t aff, Judge and P r osecutor Major Budget Changes:
cases filed.
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ystem is
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per
appr
If
will
ly
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year
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pay a
oved
Since the Covid 19 restrictions have been lifted we should see the
5. Communicate with citizens to help in resolving cases If the Paperless Court System is approved we will pay a yearly
fee of $3,314.00.
ce
mainten
a
n
collections start to increase in the court. We have a big backlog of
en

s:
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m
Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Accomplishments: maintenance fee of $3,314.00.
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Accomplish
2018-2019
Fiscal Y
older cases that will have a warrant issued in this budget this year.
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1. Participated in the 2019 State Wide Warrant
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2019 St

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in t
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Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Accomplishments:
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1. Created new processes to keep up with the
Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Accomplishments:
Legislative changes ess to k eep u p with L e gislativ e
proc
w
Created
.
2. Created new process to keep up with Legislative
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n
1. Developed a Health Protocol, in line with
ng
e
changes
s
cha
guidelines from the Texas Supreme Court and the
2. Created a Covid 19 operation plan to open the
Office of Court Administration.
courtroom for hearings
2. Created a Covid 19 operation plan to open the
courtroom for hearings and developed new court
room procedures.
3. Completed the instillation of paper-light court
system
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