County Contribution to Services
This budget provides for the County’s Maintenance of Effort (MOE) payments to the State for financing the local trial courts pursuant to the Trial Court Funding Act of 1997 and subsequent legislation, and it includes revenues from other court related fines and assessments outside of the MOE.
This budget also includes the County’s share of court facility costs, in the form of a fixed annual payment to the State, and reimbursements from the State for shared facility use costs, including maintenance, utilities and insurance, and a reimbursement from our local Court to partially offset the County’s debt service costs for tenant improvements at the Watsonville Courthouse.
Finally, this budget includes expenditures for juror parking, necessary repairs to shared facilities, and other incidental court-related expenses that are County responsibilities.