Of the day is none other than steve kushman. He holds the robert c. Taylor it wasship in the English Department and a renowned poet and thrilled to say he is a scholar of the civil war as well. Three of professor kushmans 14 books dealt with the civil war including be lidge represent muse and the book i suggested you get in the back, civil war writing from the first conference with professor gallagher. With that, i will turn it over to professor kushman. Im grateful to everybody. I wont repeat the thank yous, but on behalf of tamika and myself, i will say thank you for being courageous and not being driven away by that first talk. Lets start with a large claim. Without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. But why stop with one big claim. Heres another i will throw in free of charge. Without mark twain, memory of the civil war would be different from what it is today. Twain played a significant role in shaping civil war memory by publishing books and by various other people abou
Positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a weight based on the
Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a weight based on the relative seriousness of the case. And this is someing that was determined by the Controllers Office in 2003 and our department has implemented this. And, so, applying that model, the average workweek and this is as of june 13, 2013, a felony a
Temporary salaries and that has been resolved such that those positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type
Do you have it . Technical glitch. While were working out the technical, why dont we paint the information well enough so that the public can follow alongs as best as possible. I look forward to your questions. So, the Sheriffs Department, of course, is much more than just about our jail system in providing safety and security both inside and outside the jail system. Thats delineated by three divisions. The Custody Division, the Field Division, and Administrative Program division. You have on the first page of percentages of where our ftes are distributed in the Custody Division of 604 ftes approximately, in our Field Division 2 99 ftes and the Administrative Program division, 126 ftes. When i came into office and being able to review the challenges that really have confronted the Sheriffs Department, the thrust that i wanted to apply was to correct some of the structural problems that had been ongoing in the Sheriffs Department as it relates to its institutional i think hurdles regard