YOLO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION

P.O. Box 1903

Woodland, CA 95776 www.yolobar.com

Newsletter September 2003

SEPTEMBER BAR MEETING
September 18, 2003 Meeting, Carrousel Restaurant at 12 noon
(417 Main Street, Woodland):
"THE NEW YOLO COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY"

Our MCLE program for this month will feature Bill Schemel, a supervising attorney for the new agency. He will be discussing the changes involved in the emergence of this new agency after many years of being a part of the District Attorney's Office.

The Yolo County Bar Association has been approved as a provider of Minimum Continuing Legal Education by the State Bar of California. This program will provide one (1) hour MCLE credit!
Advance reservations are greatly appreciated. You may RSVP right back from this newsletter for the meeting to Lisa Lance by email (another great benefit for having your newsletter delivered via email), or you may mail a check in the appropriate amount ($15) to Jim Nolan C/O Yolo County Bar Association, P.O. Box 1903, Woodland, CA 95776. Alternatively, you may phone Jim Nolan at (530) 662-2859, or, finally, you may register at the door.
The cost for the lunch is $15.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY MEMBERS (Please submit information to Lisa Lance no later than the first Friday of the month)

1)	Dear YCBA Members:

As part of the newly-enacted budget package, the Legislature has increased

Court fees effective immediately. Attached to this message is a Word

document announcing new civil filing fees created by AB1759, a budget

trailer bill. Briefly, a $25 fee to offset court reporter costs is imposed

beginning August 2, 2003, on each party's first filing. The Court has

already begun collecting the new court reporter fee.

Additional fee increases go into effect on August 17, 2003. The Court will

begin collecting those fees for all filings on August 18 or thereafter.

If your civil filings are received with the former fee during the next two

weeks, the court will file them on the date we receive them. You will be

notified of the balance due, and required to pay the remaining fees before

the mandatory status conference. After two weeks, the Court will return

filings that are not accompanied by the new fees.

We recognize that the last-minute notice of these new fees is inconvenient,

and we apologize for that. As you can imagine, new fees at such short

notice cause considerable difficulties for us as well. We are obeying the

Legislature's statutory requirements and the directions of the

Administrative Office of the Courts. Editor's Note: I have attached a copy of the new schedules to this email. If you receive your newsletter by regular mail, please call to advise me if you wish to have a copy and I will fax one to you.

Very truly yours,

Lisa L. Halko

Corut Executive Officer

Yolo Superior Court

YCBA 2003 MEETING SCHEDULE

Mark your schedules for the entire year. Normally, the YCBA Meetings are at Noon on the third Thursday of each month. Here are the upcoming dates:

September 18, noon Carrousel, Woodland: The New Yolo County Family Support Agency

October 16, noon @Carrousel, Woodland: Judge Fall, tentatively, topic TBA

November 20, noon @ Carrousel, Woodland: TBA

December 18, noon @ TBA

Your 2003 YCBA Officers:

DeKristie Adams, President (530) 750-1919 or dekristi@omsoft.com

Barry Melton, Vice President (530) 666-8165 or bmelton@yolocounty.org

Jim Nolan, Treasurer (530) 662-2859 or jvnolan@yololaw.com

Lisa Lance, Secretary (530) 304-6111 or llance@yolocounty.org

Please contact Lisa Lance if you have not submitted your 2003 Renewal/Membership Application and paid your dues and she will send out an application to your office. This is the seventh newsletter sent out in email format. If you have any problems with reading this newsletter, please contact Lisa as well. For those persons still receiving your newsletter by mail, please advise Lisa of your email address if you do not wish to have her send the newsletter to you via email rather than mail. Thank you for assisting your bar association with this changeover.