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tte. oh, yeah. winter s coming, and i know you are like what, it is summer. temperatures may be in the 80 s and summer may start tomorrow but it is snowing in one part of the area new exhibit that will cool you down at philadelphia zoo, and plus, it is last day of school let s go. that is a great scene, it has become iconic, almost. well, greatest moment, count down to the end and then fun starts, you don t to have do homework, you don t to have worry about going to bed early my kid are in that mode. my kid had their last day just other day, this is bus stop. so sad for a bus stop crew because number of those boys right there are moving away and we will last time we will be together. where are they going. up to new york, up there. what are your boys. there is pop sickle day. enjoying that. that was best part. kelen. so cute. that video that is for high school musical. right. yes. high school musical two. who was the guy. corry ....
able to hybridize or civilianize parts of our staffing where opportunity presents itself, especially to help answer the question about being able to alleviate some of the stress in our custody staff, and put them in areas, reassign in areas where custody is, where the demands are most pronounced. and so, one area that we re taking some proactive move is in our i-t department of a staggered roll out of us being able to bring in civilians where there are four sworn deputies and supplant for the civilians two sworn deputies and be able to help reassign those deputies in other areas. technologically, the department has come a long way, but i believe through its customer service initiatives so that for the general public and those who have business with the sheriff s department, both on the incarceration custody side or the civil side and/or programmatic side, that we have to significantly improve everything from our website to just general access to finding somebody who mig ....
positions have been eliminated. so, there actually is a loss of five positions that s 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 what s called the nac, american bar association standards. that s 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, we re 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 we re looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned ....
in 2018. again, the current radio system we have now is 13 years old. it needs to be replaced. it s end of life, so, we re very pleased that through coit and through the mayor s office in the city is supporting this effort for our first responders on the street. you asked about proposed legislation. we have one piece of proposed legislation, which i believe is item 9 on your calendar today, and was called in conjunction with this, and that s to transfer the administration of the police emergency alarm ordinance from dem to the tax collector. dem would remain responsible for certain technical requirements of the alarm ordinance and for the emergency dispatch system. the proposal would clarify the procedures for the annual renewal of alarm licenses and for appealing the imposition of penalty fines or the revocation or suspension of a permit license. fiscal impact is neutral. the false alarm program was part of dem s base budget, transfer of function reduces our operating ....
continuing our evident-based practices implementation, we know what we re doing is working and we are being recognized nationally for our results. continuing to implement the contracts of service providers for housing, sex offender treatment, job readiness, substance abuse, cognitive behavioral services, and as the sheriff spoke previously about the reentry pod. before i move into changes in the budget, i d really like to thank the mayor s budget office kate howard and melissa howard for all their support. controller s office and also harvey rose s office and specifically amanda guma who worked closely with our staff. we are not in complete agreement, but we continue to work on that. but in terms of our overall budget and the changes, all of the changes in our budget is really related to two things. it s related to realignment and went to sack acand fought really hard to get that funding formula change and increase it had last year from 10 to 17 million and this year us ....