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Resource Allocation Study Page 1 of 3 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS 455 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102-3688 Tel 415-865-4200 TDD 415-865-4272 Fax 415-865-4205 FACT SHEET Resource Allocation Study April 2011 The Resource Allocation Study (RAS) was conducted to help identify courts with the greatest funding need. The study was directed by the Office of Court Research (OCR) and consultants from the National Center for State Courts. The Resource Allocation Study Working Group, comprised of the executive officers of sixteen courts participating in the study, provided oversight and guidance for the project. In addition, OCR staff worked in close collaboration with the Finance Division to ensure that the RAS model could be used for allocation purposes. The Judicial Council first approved the RAS methodology at its meeting on July 25, 2005. For Fiscal Year (FY) 2005–06, the RAS was used to augment the baseline budgets of 28 courts with the greatest funding need by a total of almost $14 million. It was again approved for FY2006–07 and FY2007–08. For FY2006–07, the RAS was used to allocate resources to 18 courts with the greatest funding need by a total of approximately $5 million. And, for FY2007–08, the RAS was used to allocate resources to 26 courts with the greatest funding need by a total of approximately $12 million. To date, approximately $31 million has been allocated to those courts with the greatest funding need. Future work on the RAS will seek to incorporate measures of performance into the evaluation of workload. Why are uniform measures of staff workload needed? Prior to state funding of the trial courts the effects of resource allocation across courts were largely disconnected from one another. With the bulk of trial court funding coming from county governments, local funding of the trial courts made it possible for one court to receive additional funding without having any implications for the amount of funding available to another court. Th