Agenda Date: 07/18/2017
Subject:
Title
A resolution approving an Intergovernmental Agreement with Arapahoe County concerning community service case management
Body
Presented By:
Wendy Heffner, City Clerk
POLICY QUESTION:
Does city council support an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Arapahoe County to provide community service case management for the Littleton Municipal Court?
BACKGROUND:
Community service can be ordered by the municipal judge as part of a defendant's sentence. Typically, it is ordered for juvenile defendants, but occasionally it is ordered for adults. The defendant is sentenced to a specific number of community service hours, to be completed through Arapahoe County Judicial Service (ACJS). ACJS does all monitoring and reporting of the community service hours and sends reports to the court with updates, final reports of completion, and any non-compliant reports.
ACJS offers this service at no cost to the city. The costs associated with this program are paid by defendants to ACJS. The IGA establishes an intake fee of $75 for 1 to 16 hours of court ordered community service; or $120 for 17 or more hours of community service. The fee for juveniles is $75 regardless of the number of hours ordered. This intake fee includes a $6 ACJS insurance premium.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
This program is beneficial to the Littleton Municipal Court as a means of monitoring community service. In 2016, the city referred 146 defendants to the county for community service. This is the sixth year of this agreement; previously the city paid $56,000 per year to an private company to manage community service.
FISCAL IMPACTS:
There may be minimal costs associated with referral of indigent defendants. These referral fees would have to be paid by the city. However, as a general policy the court will allow indigent defendants to complete community service on their own, at a non-profit organization, and pay the city a $6 ACJS insurance fee.
STAFF RECO...
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