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BUDGET BY PECT

BUDGET BY PECT

When the Court submits its budget to the Judicial
Council of California (JCC), expenditures are broken
down into four levels: program, element, component,
and task (PECT). Each successive level provides
additional detail that is used to develop, organize, and
manage the Court’s budget. At the highest level, PECT is
broken down into three major programs:

❖ Program 10 - court operations (roughly 83% of the total
budget by PECT is for courtroom, cases type services,
and other operations)

❖ Program 20 - non- court operations (other non-court
operations and enhanced collections are roughly 4% of
the total PECT budget)

❖ Program 90 - court administration (roughly 13% of total
budget PECT is for court administration)

PECT information is useful when determining each court’s
level of funding relative to other courts. The Resource
Assessment Study (RAS) model uses Program 10
information to measure the number of staff needed to
process case filings and is used as a foundation for the
Workload Formula.

PECT data is also used as the basis for calculating the
Court’s annual indirect overhead rate. The official rate for

FY 2020-21 will not be calculated until January 2021. Until
then, the Court uses the approved FY 2019-20 rate of
17.11%.

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