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D.C. Courts: Planning and Budgeting Difficulties During Fiscal Year 1998

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 16, 1999
Report No. AIMD/OGC-99-226
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Summary:

GAO testified before Congress recently on the District of Columbia Courts' financial operations in fiscal year 1998--its first year of operations with direct federal funding. (See GAO/T-AIMD/OGC-99-176, May 1999.) GAO reported that D.C. Courts had had difficulty in planning and budgeting during this transition year. GAO found that D.C. Courts had potentially overobligated its resources, which could violate the Anti-Deficiency Act. This report (1) supplements GAO's testimony, providing additional details on its finding, and (2) provides recommendations to Congress and the D.C. Courts. GAO answers the following questions: What were D.C. Courts obligations for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998? Did D.C. courts have a spending plan for fiscal year 1998 and obligate money in accordance with available resources? Why did D.C. Courts defer payments to court-appointed attorneys from late July 1998, and were those payments made in fiscal year 1998 processed in accordance with policies and procedures?

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