The Colleciton Improvement Program is a state required program for municiplaities with a population greater than 100,000 residents. In accordance with Article 103.0033(j), the Office of Court Administration must periodically audit jurisdictions to confirm compliance with the components. To be in substantial compliance with a component of §175.3(c), the requirement must be met for at least 80% of the eligible cases at that stage of collection. To be in partial compliance with a component of §175.3(c), the requirement must be met for at least 50% of the eligible cases at that stage of collection. For OCA to find a jurisdiction in compliance with the requirements of §175.3(c), the jurisdiction cannot be in less than partial compliance with any component, may be in partial compliance with a maximum of one component, and must be in substantial compliance with all of the other applicable components. Complinace with the program assits in collecting money owed to the city on tickets which have been adjudicated. A municipality or county may not retain a service fee if, during an audit under Article 103.0033(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System determines that the municipality or county is not in compliance with Article 103.0033, Code of Criminal Procedure, the municipality or county is unable to reestablish compliance on or before the 180th day after the date the municipality or county receives written notice of noncompliance from the office. After any period in which the municipality or county becomes unable to retain a service fee under this section, the municipality or county may begin once more to retain the fee only on receipt of a written confirmation from the office that the municipality or county is in compliance with Article 103.0033, Code of Criminal Procedure. Target set by the Office of Court Administration (OCA).

Report CRTR4210-CR A/R TPP OCA Payment Report is run with date range of the previous quarter in order to track aged collections activity.  Save data in CSV format, remove columns A-K, add column to insert RAND formula.  This will give you a random sample to audit.  Using OCA's auditing spreadsheet, located in \\Fs100\muncourt\SUPERVISORS\Collections & Enforcement\Internal Compliance Audits, review 20 cases to measure compliance of critical components.

Calculations and formulas are found on the Spot Check Report spreadsheet.  For each criteria, (cases in compliance/total cases reviewed)*100