Caseload grows by 3,191 in Circuit Clerk Kim Kellerman's office during fiscal 2013
Statistical information comes and goes, but the work in Perry County Circuit Clerk Kim Kellerman during 2013 was extraordinary.
New cases filed for calendar year 2013 included: 14 adoption cases, 38 tax cases, 46 chancery cases, 33 law cases, 69 law magistrate cases, 72 probate cases, 86 miscellaneous remedy cases, 146 small claims cases, 60 family law cases, 36 orders of protection, 84 divorce cases, 63 juvenile cases, 80 traffic DUI cases, 263 local ordinance violations, 1,667 traffic offenses, 149 criminal felonies and 285 criminal misdemeanors.
Total cases filed for the year were 3,191.
As extraordinary was the fact that the office distributed $3,652,979.78 in monies during that same year. Tracking the distributions is a major process. Distributions included $127,453.99 in circuit clerk's fees; $13,081.46 in state's attorney's fees, $7,438.74 in sheriff fees to the county, $8,099 in court fees, $29,983 in court automation fees, $2,880 in law library fees, $44,035.50 in court security fees, $60,797.81 in probation fees, $29,743 in document storage fees, $16,112.47 in county fees, $125,289.91 in criminal and juvenile fines, $47,215.39 in county traffic fines, $310 to the marriage fund, $852,689.68 in support and alimony payments, $12,930.16 to the child support maintenance fund, $515 to the county ordinance fund, $18,672.73 in fines to Pinckneyville, $37,719.82 in fines to Du Quoin, $1,279.44 in fines to Tamaroa, $434.22 in fines to Cutler, $353.92 in fines to Willisville.
Also, $2,580 for passport applications, $480 in drug enforcement monies, $51,601.74 in drug task force monies. $4,811.89 in failure to appear warrant funds, $1,290.16 in fines to St. Johns. $18,322.37 in state police OP fund, $2,107 to the foreclosure fund, $67,712.45 in restitution to victims, $10,654.90 i fines to state conservation and state overweights, $548.18 surcharge on fines to the state treasurer, $12,229 to driver's education fund, $20,654.83 in victims of violet crimes fund to the state treasurer, $6,495.45 in trauma funds to the state treasurer, $7,135 in state fee fund to the state treasurer, $5,963.98 in DNA identification fund to the state treasurer, $525 drug crime lab fee to the state treasurer, $43,386.03 to the DUI equipment fund, $5,052.10 to youth diversion, $51,219.17 lump sum surcharge, $2,987.50 clerk-op add ons, $231.50 prisoner review board, $9,071 to police vehicle fund, $1,967 for home confinement, $3,600 medical costs, $500 drug assessment to state treasurer, $605 lab analysis to the state treasurer, $175.29 clerk op deduction, $605 lab analysis, $125 transfer fee, $2,170.06 FPP graduation fund, $2,766 probation op fund, $3,040 guardian/advocacy to the state treasurer, $1,831,701.85 state disbursement for child support, $175.29 clerk op deduction, $2,107 foreclosure fund, $38,959 bond transfers out of county, $2,389 abandoned (unclaimed) property to state.
There was $407,236.54 in bail bond money posted and $303,141.54 in bond money applied to fines and costs.