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File #: 19-236    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Status: Consent Agenda
File created: 3/7/2019 In control: Board of Sedgwick County Commissioners
On agenda: 3/20/2019 Final action:
Title: Changes to the District Attorney Staffing Table.
Attachments: 1. Budget Impact - Journal Entry Admin. Asst.pdf, 2. Budget Impact - CINC Admin Assist. 20010328.pdf, 3. Budget Impact - CINC and Care and Treatment.pdf
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Changes to the District Attorney Staffing Table.

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Recommended Action: Approve the requested changes to the District Attorney's Office staffing table as outlined below.
(1) The District Attorney's Office requests approval to add 1.0 FTE Administrative Assistant, Grade 120 position to the DA staffing table. This position is necessary to meet the demands and deadlines associated with creation of journal entries required in all felony criminal cases. Recent mandates have driven the need to expand the number of administrative assistant positions performing this task from 3 to 4. For slightly more than a year, one of the positions has been double filled to meet deadlines. This request is to add a permanent position to the staffing table.

The District Attorney's Office is required to prepare and file all journal entries of judgments in felony criminal cases, with more than 5,500 prepared in 2018. A state-mandated form approved by the Kansas Sentencing Commission must be used. It is a complex, multiple-page document that must reflect items such as a defendant's demographic information, the various charges and disposition of those charges, jail credit calculations, conviction and sentences on each count, post-release supervision terms, probation requirements (if applicable), special rules that apply, offender registration requirements, restitution amounts, court costs and other unique sentencing provisions.
(2) The District Attorney's Office requests approval to change the status of position number 20010328 from part-time (0.50 FTE) to a full-time benefited position (1.0 FTE). The new full-time position would be an Administrative Assistant, Grade 120 position. This new position would work within the Child in Need of Care (CINC) department, assisting with cases of abused/neglected children.
The CINC department has seen a dramatic rise in workload due to several factors, including a shifting of responsibilities from DCF and District Court to the District A...

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