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House committee probes county courthouse ownership, capital funding process
Summary
At an April 1 meeting, state court administrators told the House Corrections & Institutions Committee that county courthouses remain county-owned by statute in most places and described the criteria and past state funding used when counties request capital dollars for courthouse upgrades.
At an April 1 meeting of the House Committee on Corrections & Institutions, Terry Corson, state code administrator, and Greg Moseley, chief of the Finance and Administration Division, briefed the committee on how ownership and funding responsibilities for Vermont courthouses are split between counties and the state.
Corson told the committee that “each county shall provide and own a suitable courthouse, pay all utility and custodial services, and keep such courthouses suitably furnished and equipped for use by the Superior Court,” citing the statute he referenced during the meeting. He described two exceptions in which state-owned courthouses have subsumed county courthouses in some counties and therefore relieved counties of the maintenance obligation.
The background matters because Vermont’s 2010 unification of the judiciary moved many court functions under a statewide superior court while the physical buildings in which those functions take place often remain owned and maintained by counties. Corson and…
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