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Alamance commissioners approve temporary one‑day‑a‑week small‑claims court while debating $28M–$37M courthouse options
Summary
The board approved allowing courts to use the county meeting room one day a week for small‑claims hearings through Jan. 1 while tabling detailed decisions on multi‑million dollar renovation or new‑build options that could add multiple courtrooms.
The Alamance County Board of Commissioners voted to allow the courts to use a county meeting room one day a week (Thursday) for small‑claims hearings from now through Jan. 1, hearing that the county’s court calendar and a recent electronic case‑management rollout have reduced throughput and created an immediate need for court time.
County staffer Unidentified Speaker 8, presenting a courthouse renovation update, reviewed a 2019 facility plan that identified the need for 2–4 additional courtrooms and roughly 15,000–25,000 square feet of court and court‑support space. The initial design package returned at roughly $99 million; after value engineering the estimate fell to a $65–75 million range. Staff described three tiers of responses: (1) short‑term reuse of existing rooms (including converting the JB Allen jury…
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