§ 2.08.218. Municipal court administrator.

(a)

Pursuant to the provisions of Charter Ordinance No. 135 there is hereby established a municipal court administrator, who shall be appointed by the city manager and shall be an employee of the city. The compensation of the municipal court administrator shall be set by the city council.

(b)

The municipal court administrator shall serve as a department head and report directly to the city manager. The municipal court clerk and chief probation officer shall report directly to the municipal court administrator. The municipal court administrator, subject to the direction and control of the city manager, shall be responsible for personnel and administrative matters involving all municipal court employees, probation employees, and warrant office employees, except for those matters that involve administration of the judicial function of the municipal court.

(c)

The municipal court administrator shall be responsible to the administrative judge of the Wichita municipal court for the implementation of the policies of the municipal court with respect to the judicial functions of the municipal court.

(d)

The municipal court administrator shall be responsible for directing the nonjudicial operations of the municipal court clerk's office, probation section, warrant office and all administrative matters including, but not limited to, preparation of dockets, records, collection and recording of fines, provision of probation services and issue and process of warrants.

(e)

Pursuant to Charter Ordinance No. 135, there is hereby established a clerk of the municipal court, who shall be appointed by the city manager and shall be an employee of the city. The compensation of the clerk of the municipal court shall be set by the city council.

The clerk shall issue all process of the court, administer oaths, file and preserve all papers, docket cases and set the same for trial and shall perform such further acts as may be necessary to carry out the duties, responsibilities and administration of the court. The clerk shall receive, account for and pay to the city treasurer monthly all fines, costs and forfeited bonds paid into the court. The clerk shall make reports to the judicial administrator of the State of Kansas and furnish the information when requested by the judicial administrator or a departmental justice on such forms furnished by the judicial administrator, and approved by the supreme court.

The clerk of the municipal court shall, upon appointment and before entering upon the duties of office, execute to the city such bond as the governing body may require, which shall be approved by the governing body, and filed in the office of the city clerk, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him or her by law, and for the faithful application and payment of all moneys that may come into his or her hands in the execution of the duties of the office. The city shall pay the cost of such bond.

(f)

Pursuant to Charter Ordinance No. 135 there is hereby established a chief probation officer of the municipal court, who shall be appointed by the city manager and shall be an employee of the city. The compensation of the chief probation officer shall be set by the city council.

The chief probation officer shall coordinate activities between judges, probation officers, and the municipal court clerk's office. The chief probation officer shall provide a probation officer to each division of municipal court to act as bailiff of said court and shall supervise probation officers in their daily assignments. The chief probation officer shall provide presentence investigations, diversion evaluations, and sentencing recommendations required by the municipal court or the city attorney and shall supervise all persons convicted in municipal court who are placed on parole or probation.

(Ord. No. 41-513 § 1)