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DocuSign Envelope ID: 5B7BBB36-E920-4DA2-A383-7ADB6AAB486C Becca Allocation Process Each biennium, an appropriation is provided by the Washington State Legislature to the AOC to offset the costs associated with the processing and case management of Becca referrals. In the 2023-2025 Biennium, the appropriations equal $7 million per fiscal year. The Legislature also provides the following direction through budget proviso: "The administrator for the courts, in conjunction with the juvenile court administrators, shall develop an equitable funding distribution formula. The formula must neither reward counties with higher than average per- petition/referral processing costs nor shall it penalize counties with lower than average per-petition/referral processing costs." Allocation of the funding is based on calendar year caseload data from each county for CHINS, ARY, and Truancy filings. The CHINS and ARY filing data is available through the online Caseloads of the Courts of Washington Reports. The source of Truancy filings is a query from the Judicial Information System (JIS)/EDR Statewide database and limited to 0-16 year - olds. The AOC Comptroller maintains an allocation spreadsheet. The calculation is as follows: • Sums three years of CHINS and ARY filings and calculates a percentage of the total for each county. • Sums three years of Truancy filings limited to 0-16-year-oldsand calculates a percentage of the total for each county. • Applies a weighted allocation to the total funding, 46 percent of the CHINS and ARY / 54 percent of the Truancy filings. Allocates the total available funding based upon the weighted allocation percentage. • A small county base is established at $5,000. Where counties' weighted allocation results in less than $5,000 for the fiscal year, then those allocations are set at $5,000 and all other counties' weighted allocations are lowered to cover the small county base. • Additionally, for FY 2024, adjustments were made to the formula in response to the impacts of the COVID 19 Pandemic on case filings. The adjustments were to exclude 2020 and 2021 filings and implement a 5 percent stop -loss. These changes were recommended by the Washington Association of Juvenile Court Administrators and approved by the State Court Administrator. The recommendation is included as an attachment to these guidelines. BECCA Guidelines 7/2023 5 IAA24306