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Becca Allocation Process <br />Each biennium, an appropriation is provided by the WA State Legislature to <br />the AOC to offset the costs associated with the processing and case <br />management of Becca referrals, The appropriations are provided from the <br />State General Fund (SGF) as proviso, and are partitioned by fiscal year. ln <br />the 2021-2023 Biennium, the amounts provided were $7 million per fiscal <br />year. <br />Allocation of the funding is based on caseload data from each county for <br />CHINS, ARY, and Truancy filings, The CHINS and ARY filing data is <br />available through the AOC online caseload reports, Truancy data is <br />researched and uploaded by the AOC Comptroller. <br />The AOC Comptroller maintains an allocation spreadsheet (model) that <br />utilizes this caseload data to create a percentage of total statewide filings for <br />each county, based on a moving average of three-year filings of each case <br />type, <br />After updated cHlNS, ARY, and Truancy data is collected, the data is loaded <br />into the model which in turn uses a formula to create the statewide <br />percentages by county, The percentages are applied to the appropriation <br />amount by fiscal year, thus producing the allocation amounts that are <br />available to counties, The formula is developed according to provisions set <br />forth in the2021-2023 omnibus operating budget. Specifically the operating <br />budget states, in part: <br />"The administrator for the coLtrts, in conjunction with the juvenite court <br />administrators, shall develop an equitable funding distribution formula. <br />The formula must neither reward counties with higher than average per-petition/referral processing cosfs nor shatl it penitize counties with bwerthan average per-petition/referral processing cosfs.,, <br />5BECCA Guidelines gl2o21