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Consent Agenda <br /> Indian River County g <br /> Interoffice Memorandum <br /> Nft- Office of Management & Budget <br /> To: Members of the BoarooNou y Commissioners <br /> From: Jason E. Brown <br /> Director, Office of an gem nt & Budget <br /> Date: March 11, 2013 <br /> Subject: Miscellaneous Budget Amendment 011 <br /> Court Administration 19th Judicial Circuit <br /> Funding of aiSmartBench Judicial Viewer System <br /> Description and Conditions <br /> Staff has received a request from Thomas Genung, Trial Court Administrator for the Nineteenth <br /> Judicial Circuit, for Indian River County to provide funding from the Court Innovations Fund to assist in <br /> the purchase of the aiSmartBench Judicial Viewer system produced by Mentis Technology Solutions. <br /> As discussed in his letter, the State Court system applied for and received approximately $5 million <br /> from the Florida portion of a nationwide foreclosure settlement, of which the Nineteenth Judicial <br /> Circuit applied for and received $284,500 to be applied towards enhancing technology to address the <br /> backlog of foreclosure cases. The estimated total cost of the Mentis aiSmartBench Judicial Viewer <br /> solution is $588,000. $200,000 of the settlement funds received from the State Court system will be <br /> applied to licensure, integration, implementation, and backfile costs. $84,000 will be applied to <br /> hardware costs. <br /> Court Administration is requesting $98,000 from Indian River County Court Innovations fund to pay for <br /> remaining licensure, integration, implementation, backfile, and hardware costs not covered by the <br /> state funds. <br /> Funding <br /> In accordance with Section 939.185, Florida Statutes, a fee of $65 is imposed on certain court cases <br /> to support various costs of the court system. A portion of the fee is to be utilized for court innovations, <br /> as determined by the chief judge of this circuit. This fund is projected to carry a balance of about <br /> $180,000 at the end of the current fiscal year. Therefore, sufficient funds are available for this <br /> request. Funding in the amount of$98,000 will be appropriated from the Additional Court Costs/Cash <br /> Forward account 141039-389040. <br /> 95 <br />