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SUGGESTED MANDATES FOR CONSIDERATION OF REPEAL OR REFORM <br />Mandate I Statute <br />Public Safety/Corrections <br />Eliminate 484.77 <br />Responsibility for <br />County to <br />Provide Rent <br />Free Space to <br />State Courts <br />Comments <br />Allowing counties to charge a rental fee to cover the cost of building, maintaining, <br />operating, remodeling, insuring, and renovating facilities occupied by the court <br />would provide for accountability and transparency in government costs and <br />operations. Approximately $1,806,900 per year. <br />State Court <br />484.52 <br />The County Sheriff is required to provide state court security. Approximately <br />Security <br />$1,242,800 per year. <br />The 1999 Legislature approved the transfer of responsibility for funding most, but <br />Eliminate State <br />480.181 <br />Court Costs Paid <br />480.1811 <br />not all, trial court operations. Approximately $365,000 per year. <br />by Counties <br />480.182 <br />Eliminate Shift <br />206C.331 <br />Since the 1994 Public Defender takeover by the State of Minnesota, the courts have <br />of Public <br />Subd. 3(d) <br />regularly appointed public defenders to represent indigent parents in Children in <br />Defender Costs <br />Need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) and Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) <br />for Representing <br />260C.163 <br />cases. Beginning in 2008, the state public defenders no longer accepted these <br />Parents in <br />Subd. 3(b) <br />cases, and when counsel was ordered by the court the costs were billed to the <br />CHIPS/TPR <br />county. In 2012 legislation was passed that codifies recent Supreme Court rulings <br />requiring counties to pay for the representation of adults in CHIPS/TPR <br />proceedings, if they are unable to financially provide for their own counsel. The <br />legislation did provide more authority for the county to develop contracts with <br />attorneys to provide these services. Options are being developed to control county <br />costs, but the costs would be more appropriately funded by the state through the <br />public defender's office. Approximately $75,000 per year. <br />Eliminate State <br />Public defender's offices can secure court orders to direct payments by counties <br />611.21 <br />Court Authority <br />for services other than counsel. This is not an expenditure the county has any <br />to Direct <br />ability to control or estimate for budgeting purposes. Approximately $2,000 per <br />Payment by the <br />year. <br />County for <br />Services Other <br />than Counsel for <br />Indigent <br />Defendants <br />Subtotal. $3,491,700 <br />Human Services <br />Mental Health <br />245.4835 <br />This was imposed by the Legislature out of concern that since the state was shifting <br />Maintenance of <br />money from counties to health plans, counties would begin reducing their <br />Effort (MOE) <br />investment in mental health. Approximately $5,370,700 per year of which <br />$3,750,700 is county responsibility. <br />36 <br />