ADOPTED - AUGUST 26, 2008

Agenda Item No. 39

 

Introduced by the Judiciary and Finance Committees of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION TO INCREASE AUTOMON ENROLLMENT FEE

 

RESOLUTION #08-240

 

WHEREAS, Ingham County and the 54A District Court entered into a contract with the AutoMon Corporation in 2000 in which the AutoMon Corporation agreed to provide an automated reporting system for persons on probation or pretrial release; and

 

WHEREAS, an enrollment fee of $10 was established by Ingham County and the 54A District Court; and

 

WHEREAS, said enrollment fee is paid by the defendant and deposited into account 267-36240 for the Community Corrections Advisory Board, for use by Ingham County to advance probation and pretrial release programs; and

 

WHEREAS, the enrollment fee has not been upwardly adjusted since the contract’s inception in 2000; and

 

WHEREAS, an upward adjustment of the enrollment fee would increase the amount of money available for use to advance probation and pretrial release programs such as subsidizing the cost of an electronic monitoring system for indigent defendants.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the $10 enrollment fee established at the inception of the contract between Ingham County, the 54A District Court and AutoMon be increased to $15 and that the additional money paid for Circuit Court enrollments be used to subsidize the cost of electronic monitoring services for indigent defendants.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the fee increase will take effect September 1, 2008.

 

JUDICARY:  Yeas:  Weatherwax-Grant, Bahar-Cook, Holman, Nolan, Schafer

    Nays:  None             Absent:  Tennis               Approved  8/14/08

 

FINANCE:  Yeas:  Grebner, Hertel, Weatherwax-Grant, Celentino, Schor, Dougan

    Nays:  None              Absent:  None             Approved  8/20/08