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Message <br />Page 6 of 7 <br />Justice and Public Safet Ex ansion <br />• Continue statewide warrant repository (NCAWARE), Casewise $7.9 million <br /> and other court technology initiatives • $1.9 million nr <br />• Add new deputy clerks of courts: • $4.2 million <br /> 0 150 10/1/07 $330k nr <br /> 0 147 7/1/08 <br />• Add new district court judges & new support staff • $634k <br /> 0 6 judges 1/1/08; 3 judges 1/15/09 • $87k nr <br /> 0 9 support 1/1/08; 1 1/15/09 <br />• Add new superior court judges & new support staff $221 k <br /> 0 2 judges 1/1/08 • $20k nr <br /> 0 2 support 1/1/08; 3 7/1/08 <br />• Add new magistrates $683k <br /> 0 21 10/1!07 $85k nr <br /> 0 21 711 /08 <br />• Establish 2 new family courts in additional districts $522k <br /> • $47k nr <br />• Add new assistant district attorneys, investigators & new $3.9 million <br /> victim/legal assistants $243k nr <br /> 0 30 ADA 10/1 /07; 28 ADA 7/1 /08 ' <br /> 0 40 asst 10/1 /07; 40 asst. 7/1 /08 <br /> 0 7 invest. 10/1/07; 7 invest. 7/1/08 <br />• Add 3 new DNA processors $280k <br /> • $133k nr <br />• Creates Piedmont Triad Regional Crime Lab • $432k <br /> • $156k nr <br />• Add 5 new Medicaid fraud investi ators • $85k <br />• Continue replacement of statewide automated fingerprint ID $2.7 million <br /> s stem <br />• Continue implementation ofVIPER-statewide 800 megahertz $2.3 million <br /> voice system • HP can spend up to $10 mil <br />• A ro riation throw h Hi hwa Fund im lementation <br />• Shift Juvenile Crime Prevention Council funding to nr Shifts $22.7 million to nr <br /> • Sub'ect to continuation <br />• Shift CJPP.funding to nr • -Shifts $9.2 million to nr <br /> • Sub'ect to continuation <br />• Increase Hazmat res onse team a ui ment $250k nr ' <br />• Continue floodplain mapping project $1.7 million <br /> • $2.4 million nr <br />• Fund ille al immi ration ro'ect thru rant to Sheriff's Assn. $750k nr <br />• Support gang intervention & suppression grants (NCACC $4.8 million nr <br /> le islative oal <br />Special provisions call for study of available prosecutorial resources and the use of those resources, including <br />caseload management, adequacy of space and equipment, geographical equity, criminal prosecution, <br />automation, cost management practices and how current use impacts access to justice, accountability, timely <br />resolution, complexity, and reduction in backlogs (Sec. 14.15). Further, AOC must measure the impacts of the <br />state's additional funding, including performance measurements and caseload standards (Sec. 14.18). <br />Natural and Economic Resources <br />Funds are provided for the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to preserue the <br />state's farmland and to protect natural resources, wildlife habitat and water resources. The budget establishes a <br />UNC cancer research fund, funded in part from an increase in the tobacco products (10% of the cost price, <br />excluding cigarettes) and eight million in Tobacco Trust Funds (Sec. 6.23). In lieu of a transfer of all research <br />stations to the university system for oversight and consolidation, a special provision calls for a study of a transfer <br />8/28/2007 <br />