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Trial Court Budget | Updates to the Funds Held on Behalf of the Trial Courts Policy (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee recommends adopting revisions to the current Judicial Council-Approved Process, Criteria, and Required Information for Trial Court Trust Fund Fund Balance Held on Behalf of the Courts including streamlining the submission schedule, making a change to the recipient of the request, and providing language corrections to better align with court year-end closing, trial court allocation offsets, and requests to amend previously reviewed requests.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee recommends the Judicial Council adopt the following, effective January 17, 2020:
1. Revise submission due dates from five dates to three, but retain the following:
a. August-Funds Held on Behalf (FHOB) requests for preliminary fund
balance cap;
b. November (formerly December)-FHOB requests for final fund balance cap;
c. April-requests to amend previously approved requests and remove February and June;
2. Change submissions from the Judicial Council Administrative Director to the director of Budget Services; and
3. Make technical language corrections as appropriate.