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Alamance commissioners endorse temporary courtroom use, weigh $27M–$37M long‑term options
Summary
County staff outlined short- and long-term courthouse solutions — from a $50,000 jury-room conversion to a new $28M–$37M addition — and the board approved one short-term step: allowing small‑claims court to use the commissioners' meeting room one day a week through Jan. 1.
County staff presented a multi-pronged plan on Aug. 5 to address growing court caseloads in Alamance County, urging commissioners to approve short-term changes while pursuing longer-term construction or renovation options.
"We started this five years ago," the presentation said, recounting a 2019 facility plan that identified a need for two to four additional courtrooms and roughly 15,000–25,000 square feet of court space. Staff told the board that an expedited option — converting a jury room in the J.B. Allen building into a small‑claims courtroom — could be ready by Jan. 1 for an estimated cost of about $50,000.
Staff framed that short-term work as a stopgap to handle a January deadline when a fifth…
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