BOARD APPROVES FY 2009 1st QUARTER GRANTS

On December 5, 2008, the Board of Directors met via teleconference to make decisions on grant awards for the 1st quarter. One (1) Project Grant, 4 Technical Assistance (TA) Grants, and 1 Curriculum Adaptation & Training (CAT) Grant were approved, for a total of $181,516.

Approved grants included a Project Grant to support a California Judicial Administration Graduate Program. This program will help the California judiciary attract and retain employee-students who have the potential to become highly educated judicial administrators. Four (4) TA applications were approved by the Board, including a child maltreatment caseflow project for the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona; a re-engineering project to support the Vermont Judiciary in light of severe budget cuts across the courts in that state; and a strategic planning initiative for the Superior Court of San Luis Obispo County, California.

SJI is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR) (P.L. 110-329) through March 6, 2009. While under a CR, the Board of Directors will approve new grant requests for FY 2009, but will not make any awards until SJI's final appropriation is available.