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<br />Also, turnover creates an opportunity to redistribute resources in a way that is relatively <br />less destructive to morale. <br /> <br />The recently provided reports from the State Office have helped to identify problem areas <br />in various functions of establishment. The data make clear that the Fargo Region has a <br />disproportionate share of cases in "monitor" and "establishment". <br /> <br />Conclusions <br /> <br />Recognizing the growing caseload and the limited resources ofthe legal group, and <br />taking advantage of the opportunity to redistribute work, the Unit is working to shift <br />some work from attorneys to other staff. Currently two case analysts are being trained in <br />guidelines calculations, and all case analysts are working newly created checklists to <br />better prepare files for guidelines calculations. <br /> <br />Also, with tl1e recently announced and rapidly approaching retirement of our investigator, <br />the Unit is considering redistributing his duties among existing staff and requesting that <br />the two part-time attorneys be made full-time attorneys. <br /> <br />The reports indicated a strangely high percentage of cases in "monitor". Some initial <br />investigation of that has shown that most of them are medical/opt out cases, some of <br />which have orders in place for medical coverage. It may be that these cases should be <br />included as an establishment. <br /> <br />The Unit hopes to increase support orders by 2% by the redistribution of duties (increased <br />involvement of case analysts), by requesting an increase in legal resources (part-time <br />attomeys to be full-time), and the potential for recoding certain cases as establishment. <br /> <br />II. Current Support <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />This measures the effectiveness of our efforts to collect (or distribute) each month what is <br />due. <br /> <br />The measure is the percentage of current support due for a review period that is actually <br />distributed. <br /> <br />Line 25 = <br />Line 24 <br /> <br />Total amount distributed as current support during the review period <br />Total amount of current support due for the review period <br /> <br />For FFY 2006, of$19,988,205 in current support due for the review period, $14,574,769 <br />was distributed, for a percentage of72.92%. Of the eight regions, this percentage was <br />ranked seventh, with the top region having a percentage of 78.89%. <br /> <br />3 <br />