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Understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yes. Thank you for the presentation and i really appreciate chief hayes white letting know early she had the obligations in dc as well. I wanted to just ask about overtime. I know the c...

Some challenges. You know im a former commissioner for the department and this particular Department Needs Additional Support and so i am hoping that this information thats provided to us would give you a clear understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. T...

Savings and we have one time savings. These would allow an increase of nine 10 of a percent in the budget and as the director stated we are working with the department and will report back next week. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thanks we will see you next wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. We will go into recess until 145. We will see you then. [gavel] were at our regularly scheduled meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. We are in the middle of hearing items 1 and 2 for the 2014, 15, 16 budget. Well pick it up. Up next is our public offender and ...

Positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the ...

Savings and we have one time savings. These would allow an increase of nine 10 of a percent in the budget and as the director stated we are working with the department and will report back next week. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thanks we will see you next wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. We will go into recess until 145. We will see you then. [gavel] were at our regularly scheduled meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. We are in the middle of hearing items 1 and 2 for the 2014, 15, 16 budget. Well pick it up. Up next is our public offender and ...