ADOPTED - SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Agenda Item No. 28

 

Introduced by the Judiciary and Finance Committees of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION TO ENHANCE THE 55TH DISTRICT COURT’S CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (COURTVIEW) TO ACCEPT ELECTRONIC CITATION DATA FROM THE SHERIFF’S CITATION SYSTEM

 

RESOLUTION #07-227

 

WHEREAS, the Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) Project was established in 1994 when the Ingham County Board of Commissioners adopted Resolution #94-271 which provided initial funding from the proceeds of the sale of the Ingham County Medical Center; and

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorized the establishment of the Integrated Justice Information System’s Group (IJIGS), consisting of the Chief Executive or designee of the Prosecutor’s Office, Sheriff’s Office, Probate Court, 55th, District Court and 30th Judicial Circuit Court was established to oversee the IJIS Project; and

 

WHEREAS, the IJIS is operational and serving the IJIGS agencies; and

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners has adopted Resolution #05-150 / Resolution to Implement a Patrol Vehicle Electronic Citation System for the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office; and

 

WHEREAS, the IJIGS Committee desires to interface the Sheriff’s E-citation System with the Court’s case management system (CourtView) for the purpose of relieving the 55th District Court from manual entry of the thousands of citations annually; and

 

WHEREAS, the IJIGS committee requests $88,500 from the existing IJIS budget to enhance CourtView functionality to electronically accept E-citation data for automatic creation of D-55 Traffic and Criminal Cases.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners accepts the recommendations of the IJIGS Committee for further improvement of the County’s justice system.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes MAXIMUS Justice Solutions, the vendor providing CourtView, to develop and incorporate the E-citation enhancements into the D-55 Case Initiation Module at a cost not to exceed $88,500.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairperson of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners and the County Clerk are authorized to sign any necessary contracts documents with MAXIMUS Justice Solutions consistent with this resolution and approved as to form by the County Attorney.

 

JUDICIARY:  Judiciary will meet 9/25/07

 

FINANCE:  Yeas:  Weatherwax-Grant, Grebner, Hertel, Tennis, Dougan

     Nays:   None        Absent:  Celentino        Approved 9/19/07