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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 3% of the total PECT budget)

❖ Program 90 - court administration (roughly 14% 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 RAS model uses Program 10 and 90 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 a basis for calculating the Court’s annual indirect overhead
rate. The official rate for FY 2024-25 will not be calculated until January 2025. Until
then, the Court uses the approved FY 2023-24 rate of 20.89%.

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