Commissioners on Thursday discussed creating a community committee to review potential locations and designs for a new county courthouse after state budget and judgeship proposals raised questions about where additional courtrooms would be placed. “I would like to work with the chief judge of the district court to come up with a committee … to talk about a new courthouse, where that would be, whether we split between the family court and downtown and all the issues that are involved,” Chair Segelbloom said. Concerns about process and budgets dominated the discussion. Commissioner Kirkpatrick, who introduced the idea, asked staff to examine realistic regulatory and statutory constraints and indicated she wanted community input early. Other commissioners said the right sequence is to have Real Property Management complete a study with cost and site analyses before convening a broad citizen advisory group. Commissioner McCurdy recommended RPM finish its analysis and then convene stakeholders to clarify essential elements, scope and where a project would fit in the county capital plan. Commissioner Jones urged the board to avoid designing a building before knowing how it would be funded. Several commissioners noted earlier cost estimates varied widely — comments at the meeting referenced discussions in the range of several hundred million dollars — and said the county must set funding parameters before soliciting wide public design input. Real Property Management told commissioners it is preparing design and cost analyses for potential locations and will brief the board and judges; several commissioners asked RPM to coordinate with the district court and architects to refine scope and costs before organizing community outreach. No final decision was made to charter a citizen committee at this meeting.