JP Interviews About Wedding Fee Revenue
After the debate last night I caught up with each of the candidates for the JP race on the westside to ask them a question about the money that JP's collect performing weddings.
JP's can collect a fee to perform weddings (as can judges) and they are not obligated to turn any of that money over to the county. At a time with commissioner's have to struggle to find funding sources I thought I'd inquire about the fee.
For background, many JPs don't charge anything for some groups like GI's. But they frequently perform the weddings during business hours at the county-funded offices. County-funded staff have to support the ceremonies. County resources are expended on performing the ceremonies and if it weren't for the fact that they were elected by county constituents, they JPs and judges wouldn't have the power to perform the ceremony and get that supplemental income.
So why not provide some tax payers a little relief?
BTW, some of the JP's have wedding stuff set up in their offices for photo-ops frequently charge different fees if they have to perform a ceremony on a weekend or out of the office.
Here's what both candidates had to say:
JP's can collect a fee to perform weddings (as can judges) and they are not obligated to turn any of that money over to the county. At a time with commissioner's have to struggle to find funding sources I thought I'd inquire about the fee.
For background, many JPs don't charge anything for some groups like GI's. But they frequently perform the weddings during business hours at the county-funded offices. County-funded staff have to support the ceremonies. County resources are expended on performing the ceremonies and if it weren't for the fact that they were elected by county constituents, they JPs and judges wouldn't have the power to perform the ceremony and get that supplemental income.
So why not provide some tax payers a little relief?
BTW, some of the JP's have wedding stuff set up in their offices for photo-ops frequently charge different fees if they have to perform a ceremony on a weekend or out of the office.
Here's what both candidates had to say:
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