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Budget Summary FY2011

03211500 - Committee for Public Counsel Services
Data Current as of:  8/6/2010





Account Description FY2010
Spending
FY2011
GAA
0321-1500 Committee for Public Counsel Services
For the operation of the committee for public counsel services, as authorized by chapter 211D of the General Laws; provided, that the committee shall submit a report to the clerks of the house of representatives and senate and the house and senate committees on ways and means, not later than January 31, 2011, that shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) the number of clients assisted by the committee in the prior fiscal year; (b) any proposed expansion of legal services delineated by type of service, target population and cost; (c) the total number of persons who received legal services by the committee, by type of case and geographic location; (d) the costs for services rendered per client, by type of case and geographic location; (e) the amount paid, if any, to the committee by clients for services rendered, by type of case and geographic location; (f) the average cost for services rendered by the committee by type of case; and (g) the average number of hours spent per attorney or staff per type of case; provided further, that the committee shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than January 31, 2011, on the progress of the public defender division; provided further, that said report shall include the following: (a) the number of offices that are in operation; (b) the number of staff hired to work in the district offices; and (c) the estimated savings the commonwealth has realized from having cases assigned to public defenders as opposed to being assigned to private bar advocates; and provided further, that upon receipt of a written certification by the secretary of administration and finance, addressed to the chairs of the house and senate committees on ways and means and the comptroller of the commonwealth, that legislation extending the commonwealth's eligibility for an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, not in effect as of June 1, 2010, has been duly enacted and signed into law by the President of the United States or that the federal government has otherwise obligated itself to release additional funding not available as of June 1, 2010, to the commonwealth during state fiscal year 2011,20 district court attorneys shall be hired as authorized by section 5 of chapter 54 of the acts of 2005, and the committee for public counsel services shall hire: 7 superior court attorneys; 1 delinquency attorney and 1 additional auditor to the audit and oversight unit, and 7 new juvenile defender offices shall be opened in the following areas: Springfield/Holyoke, New Bedford/Fall River, Lowell/Lawrence, Brockton, Quincy, Cambridge/Somerville and Salem/Lynn, and the committee shall establish a murder trial and appeals unit and establish a mental health civil commitment unit, and an additional child and family law trial office shall be opened in the New Bedford/Fall River area and a child and family law appeals office shall be opened in the metropolitan Boston area, and 1 additional attorney shall be hired in both the Worcester and Pittsfield child and family law offices



General Fund 95.274%

FMAP Budget Relief Fund 4.726%

28,645,024 32,255,081

Veto Explanation:   I am vetoing this language and reducing this amount because none of the enhanced FMAP funds have been received from or committed by the federal government.