Resolution No. 190

Instituting Compensation Parity And Authorizing Stipends For Participants In The Counsel At First Appearance (“CAFA”) Program In The Office Of The Ulster County Public Defender And Amending The 2019 Ulster County Budget – Office Of The Public Defender

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Referred to:  The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairwoman Eckert and Legislators Collins, Haynes, Heppner, and Ronk), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairwoman Archer and Legislators Gerentine, Maio, James Maloney, Joseph Maloney, Petit, and Rodriguez)

 

Chairwoman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Lynn Eckert, and Deputy Chair Kenneth Ronk, Jr. offer the following:

 

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the Acting County Executive on behalf of the Office of the Public Defender; and

 

WHEREAS, the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services has approved $40,000 in annual funding to increase access to counsel for indigent individuals (as part of the Statewide Expansion of Hurrell-Harring Settlement funding); and

 

WHEREAS, the State of New York has mandated a Counsel At First Appearance (“CAFA”) initiative, wherein institutional public defense providers are to provide an Assistant Public Defender to appear at the first court appearance (arraignment) of any accused person; and

 

WHEREAS, the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services, as part of its statewide expansion of Hurrell-Harring settlement funding, has approved additional compensation for those Assistant Public Defenders who will participate in the CAFA program; and

 

WHEREAS, each participating Assistant Public Defender, who will be subject to call-outs “24/7” to attend such court appearances will be compensated with a $10,000 annual stipend plus their respective hourly compensation for actual appearances; and, now, therefore, be it

 

RESOLVED, that the 2019 Ulster County Budget is hereby amended as follows:

 

                                                      AMEND                                                    AMOUNT

 

1170-1161                                   Assistant Public Defender                    $2,430.00

(PL#)                                            Management (Part-Time)

                                                      Hourly rate increase from $31.60

                                                     

                                                     

                                                      To $35.35 or $4,340.16 annually

                                                      Per Attorney.  In addition, there will

                                                  be $1,028.00 additional FICA and

                                                      retirement annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-rated to

                                                      Year-end beginning June 10, 2019.

                                                     

 

1170-1186                                   Assistant Public Defender                     $2,430.00

(PL#)                                            Management (Part-Time)

                                                      Hourly rate increase from $31.60

                                                      To $35.35 or $4,340.16 annually

                                                      Per Attorney.  In addition, there will

                                                   be $1,028.00 additional FICA and

                                                      retirement annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-rated to

                                                      Year-end beginning June 10, 2019.                

 

 

1170-1150                                   Assistant Public Defender                     $2,430.00

(PL#)                                            Management (Part-Time)

                                                      Hourly rate increase from $31.60

                                                      To $35.35 or $4,340.16 annually

                                                      Per Attorney.  In addition, there will

                                                  be $1,028.00 additional FICA and

                                                      retirement annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-rated to

                                                      Year-end beginning June 10, 2019.

 

1170-1159                                   Assistant Public Defender                      $2,430.00

(PL#)                                            Management (Part-Time)

                                                      Hourly rate increase from $31.60

                                                      To $35.35 or $4,340.16 annually

                                                      Per Attorney.  In addition, there will

                                                   be $1,028.00 additional FICA and

                                                      retirement annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-rated to

                                                      Year-end beginning June 10, 2019.

 

1170-1188                                   (Senior Felony) Assistant Public          $5,228.00

(PL#)                                            Defender (Full-Time)

                                                      Hourly increase from $43.78 to

                                                      $48.89 or $9,336.00 annually.  In addition,

                                                      there will be $2,212.00 additional FICA and

                                                      Retirement expense Annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-

                                                      Rated to year-end beginning

                                                      June 10, 2019.

 

1170-1221                                   (Senior Felony) Assistant Public          $5,228.00

(PL#)                                            Defender (Full-Time)

                                                      Hourly increase from $43.78 to

                                                      $48.89 or $9,336.00 annually.  In addition,

                                                      there will be $2,212.00 additional FICA and

                                                      Retirement expense Annually. 

                                                      Compensation will be pro-

                                                      Rated to year-end beginning

                                                      June 10, 2019.

 

 

1170-1189                                   Senior (Conflict) Assistant                    $1,295.00   

(PL#)                                            Public Defender (Full-Time)

                                                      Hourly increase from $43.78 to

                                                      $48.89 or $2,311.77 annually. 

                                                      In addition, there will be $548.00

                                                      Additional FICA and Retirement

                                                      Expense annually.  Compensation

                                                      Will be pro-rated to year-end

                                                      Beginning June 10, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                      INCREASE                                           AMOUNT

 

AA.1170.1046-1300.1300        Regular Pay                                           $21,471.00

 

AA.1170.1046-1420.1460        Stipend Pay                                           $56,000.00

 

AA.1170.1046-8000.8000        Retirement                                            $  3,435.00

 

AA.1170.1046-8010.8010        SS/FICA                                               $  1,643.00

(App. #)

 

AA.1170.1048-3300.3025        State Aid Indigent Legal Services        $82,549.00

(Rev. #)

 

and move its adoption.

 

 

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 

AYES:                        NOES:    

 

 

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on ______________.

 

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on ________________.

 

 

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

$  82,549.00 – INCREASE 2019 APPROPRIATION DOLLARS

$  82,549.00 – INCREASE 2019 STATE REVENUE DOLLARS

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Updated: June 17, 2019