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Committee declines jury-room voting plan, endorses single security checkpoint with added staffing cost
Summary
Washington County Executive Committee reviewed a plan to use the jury room and justice center for voting, accepted legal advice that the jury room is not suitable, and agreed to use a single security checkpoint with an estimated $32,000 in additional annual staffing costs while staff pursue alternative polling sites.
Washington County Executive Committee on an unspecified date reviewed security and polling-location plans for the Government Center and Justice Center and agreed not to use the jury room as a polling place after county legal counsel advised the location would permit people to enter the justice center without going through required security.
Committee members said the new building configuration will route all public entrants through a single security checkpoint on the east side of the Government Center; the committee heard an estimate that additional staffing for the checkpoint would cost about $32,000 annually.
The committee heard from staff and law-enforcement representatives that the revised configuration consolidates screening from two stations down to one and produces significant cost savings compared…
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