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Municipal Court Approved Amount: $ 0 Approved FTE: 0.00 Department Director: Mary Jane Grubb - Court Clerk Department Website: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/municipal-court Department Phone: 512-974-4800 Performance Measure Information Name: Percent of cases terminated to filed - Juvenile Description: The number of outgoing juvenile cases as a percentage of the number of incoming juvenile cases. Also referred to as the clearance rate. A terminated case is defined as a case closed by dismissal, administrative termination, full payment, judicial waiver, jail credit, or community service. A juvenile case is defined as a case filed for a defendant who is at least 10 years of age and under 17 years of age at the time the violation occurred. A filed case is defined as a case filed with Austin Municipal Court and does not include cases diverted. Clearance rate measures whether the court is keeping up with it's incoming caseload. If cases are not disposed in a timely manner, a backlog of cases awaiting disposition will grow. Knowledge of clearance rates by case type can help a court pinpoint emerging problems and indicate where improvements may be made. Courts should aspire to clear at least as many cases as have been filed in a period by having a clearance rate of 100 percent or higher. This measure is one of ten standard measures reported by trial courts nationally. Type: Result Current Data - Monthly 2021 Target Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. 2021 Actuals 100 44.83 35.48 76 81.48 30 91.67 37.5 90.63 91.3 163.160 100 114.81 78.61 History Data FY 2016 Actual FY 2017 Actual FY 2018 Actual FY 2019 Actual FY 2020 Actual FY 2020 Target FY 2021 Target 104.7 92.52 117.51 140.48 112.88 100 100