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15. ACCEPT GRANT AND EXCEPTION TO TECHNOLOGY FINANCE PROGRAM Accept a FY 2009-10 grant (through the State of Arizona’s Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families) and associated revenue from the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) – Title II Formula Grant for the Juvenile Court of the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County (Court) in the amount of $54,960. The Departments indirect rate for FY10 is 40.7%. The grantor limits indirect cost recovery to 10% of salary costs. Total indirect costs are estimated at $19,603 of which 4,816 are recoverable and 14,786 are unrecoverable. The term of the OJJDP grant will be from March 31, 2010 through February 28, 2011. In addition, approve an exception to the Technology Finance Program (TFP) to allow the Court to purchase one lap top computer through the approval of the OJJDP grant. Total cost is estimated not-to-exceed $1,700. In compliance with OJJDP, the Court has requested funding through the Governor’s Office for a part-time contract attorney to represent juveniles charged with status offenses only, namely those acts that are specific to youth under the age of 18. (For example, curfew, truancy, runaway, tobacco possession, alcohol consumption or possession, defiant behaviors or disobedience.) Before a status offender can be detained, they need to be fully advised of their rights and the result of their consequences. The goal is to deinstitutionalize status offenders and provide due process. Accordingly, a senior contract attorney will supervise, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 38, law students to represent this specific category of juveniles through the court process. (C-80-10-017-2-00)