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An Audit Report on
John Keel, CPA The Court of Criminal Appeals'
State Auditor Administration of Grant Funds from the
Judicial and Court Personnel Training
Fund
SAO Report No. 09-028
April 2009
Overall Conclusion
Background Information
The Court of Criminal Appeals (Court) should The Court of Criminal Appeals (Court)
improve its administrative processes to ensure administers the Judicial and Court Personnel
that grants from the state Judicial and Court Training Fund, which is a State Treasury
Personnel Training Fund (judicial education fund. Grants from this training fund provide
for continuing legal education, technical
program) are used efficiently and effectively assistance, and other support programs to (1)
and that grantees are held accountable for judges; (2) prosecuting attorneys and their
personnel; (3) criminal defense attorneys
providing agreed-upon services, who regularly represent indigent defendants
in criminal matters; (4) justices of the peace
The Court awarded 8 judicial education program and their court personnel; (5) district and
grants totaling $8.44 million in fiscal year 2007 county clerks; (6) law enforcement officers;
(7) law students; and (8) other judicial
and 7 grants totaling $8.47 million in fiscal year personnel.
2008. According to the Court's records, a total As part of the Court's oversight of the
of 204,443 training hours were provided to training program, it is required by Texas
3 1n Government Code, Section 56.006 (b), to
16,437 participants in fiscaL year 2008. The monitor both the financial performance and
Court has processes to ensure that grantees' the program performance of entities
requests for funds are reviewed and do not receiving grant funds.
exceed the grantees' total award amounts. The Court was appropriated $8.9 million in
fiscal year 2007 and $9.7 million in fiscal year
2008 from the Judicial and Court Personnel
The Court should develop written policies and Training Fund.
procedures for its financial monitoring of
judicial education program grants and expand the scope of its financial monitoring
of grantees. Although the Court's staff reports that it reviews 100 percent of grant
expenditures, it does not limit the amount of grant funds that can be expended on
grantee administrative costs. Grantees' administrative expenditures in fiscal year
2008 ranged from 36.5 percent to 75.1 percent, with an average administrative
expenditure rate of 49.5 percent across the seven grantees. The Court also should
improve its financial monitoring by requiring grantees to report budget-to-actual
expenditures and ensuring that audits of state and non-state funds are conducted
as required by the grant provisions.
The Court also should develop written policies, procedures, and performance
measures to monitor grantees' program performance. The number of training
This sum may not represent total individuals because participants may have attended more than one training event.This audit was conducted in accordance with Texas Government Code, Section 321.0132.
For more information regarding this report, please contact John Young, Audit Manager, or John Keel, State Auditor, at (512) 936-9500.
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