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Arapahoe County clerk seeks $2 million to move Aurora motor-vehicle office, $350,000 for election facility security
Summary
Clerk and Recorder outlined “must-have” projects: relocate the troubled Aurora motor-vehicle office to a county-owned CenterPoint site, install a fence at the elections warehouse, and build a phone-bank hub, citing safety, recurring lease costs and election-worker security concerns.
John Lopez, Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder, told the Board of County Commissioners that his office needs funding to move the Aurora motor-vehicle branch into a county-owned building to avoid recurring lease costs and continuing building problems.
"The lease we're in is expensive, and the plumbing causes numerous issues, causing shutting down the office completely for weeks just a couple years ago," Lopez said. He told commissioners the office has identified a county-owned location at CenterPoint and estimated a one-time redesign and construction cost of a maximum of $2,000,000 to adapt the space.
The move, Lopez said, would eliminate a roughly $290,000-a-year lease and avoid repeated expenses to replace state equipment, furniture and carpeting after flooding and other building failures. He said staff safety incidents and repeated leaks that destroyed equipment have…
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