Budget Crisis Closes Kansas State Courts

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Kansas state courts will shut down for five Fridays this spring to save money in a state budget crisis that includes a $1.4 million hole in the court budget. Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said Wednesday that the Legislature’s failure to pass additional revenue for the current budget and address the next budget leads to the drastic step of shutting the entire court system on five Fridays in April, May and June. Judges will remain on duty during the shutdown days, but 1,500 staffers will vanish.

 

Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice said, “The court has looked at a number of available options. Frankly, all of them are lousy.”  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9TUCGK80.htm

For more information:

http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/court-4-4-12

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/features/x760621708/Supreme-Court-orders-employee-furloughs

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/05/3535546/budget-woes-force-kansas-court.html

http://www.kansasreporter.org/91300.aspx

 

 

 

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  1. It could be missed, and is worth noting that this funding issue and resulting furloughs do not result from the legislature’s decision not to fully fund the courts. Both houses of the legislature had agreed to fund the shortfall and it was in the proposed legislation. The problem was that the legislature could not agree on school funding which was also a part of the bill. Since the legislature could not agree on that portion of the bill action will have to be taken during the wrap up session in about a month. The staff will still have suffered two furlough days at least by then. Most observers expect the court funding problem will be taken care of by the legislature fully funding the shortfall as previously agreed; the question is when. GTE

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