Snohomish County Public Defender Association 11/12/2019

the amount of hours devoted to the case, taking into consideration any other pertinent circumstances. Any additional compensation is at the sole discretion of the City and must be expressly agreed to, in writing, signed by both the RALJ Public Defender and the City. The compensation amount represents the salary and benefits necessary to provide public defense services in accordance with the Standards and as supplemented in Section 2.4 below, along with all infrastructure, support,and systems necessary to comply with the Standards including by way of illustration and not limitation, training, research, secretarial and office facilities, and investigation,translation, and mental and physical evaluation services. As provided in Section 2.5 and its sub paragraphs below, the parties will periodically review staffing in light of changes in court rule and case load in order to adjust staffing based on experience. The parties believe that they have provided sufficient capacity to ensure that,in all respects and at all times,public defense service will comply with the Standards with an adequate reserve capacity for each attorney. The RALJ Public Defender additionally agrees and promises that RALJ Public Defender will devote full effort to the performance of this Agreement and will undertake no private practice of law or other public contract that would impede its ability to perform under this Agreement or reduce the case count available to each Attorney. 2.1 Case Counts. Based upon case counts maintained by RALJ Public Defender and reviewed by the City, the Projected Case Count represents current estimates for annual case counts for all indigent cases filed by the City likely to be assigned to RALJ Public Defender.The terms"case"and"credit"shall be defined in accordance with the Washington State Supreme Court rule and Washington Office of Public Defense guidelines. 2.2 Adjustment;Internal Allocation. As provided in the Standards,case counts may be revised upwards based upon a variety of factors. Upon the RALJ Public Defender's request, the City shall review any particular case with the RALJ Public Defender to determine whether greater weighting should be assigned, and upward revisions shall not be unreasonably refused. The annual caseload shall be reviewed annually on or about June 30th each year. 2.3 Compensation. Except as expressly provided in Section 2.4,the cost of all infrastructure,administrative, support and systems as well as standard overhead services necessary to comply with the established standards are provided for in the cost per case payment provided in Section 2 above. 2.4 Payments in Addition to the Compensation. The City shall pay for the following case expenses when reasonably incurred and approved by the Court from funds available for that purpose: 2.4.1 Preauthorized Non-Routine Expenses. Non-routine case expenses requested by the RALJ Public Defender and preauthorized by order of the Court. Unless the services are performed by RALJ Public Defender's staff or subcontractors, non-routine expenses include,but are not limited to: 4