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Space-needs study: county seeks two new courtrooms and plans office moves; report due this spring
Summary
AECOM and county public-works staff updated commissioners on a space-needs assessment that identifies two new courtrooms as an immediate need, recommends moving some departments to a nearby county-owned building and details further building and site assessments to guide capital planning.
Tom Henry, the county's public works construction manager, told the Board of County Commissioners the most urgent space need is adding two courtrooms at the Inverness courthouse and that doing so requires relocating several tenant offices.
Henry said staff are under design for the courtroom expansion and for renovating a nearby county-owned building (identified in the meeting as the Koch/Coca-Cola building) to house displaced tenant departments. "In order to bring those [two courtrooms] online, we'll have to move some of our tenant partners to other locations," Henry said. He told commissioners county staff plan to re-use the same contractor where possible to…
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