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County hears options for courthouse: renovation cheaper but new build exceeds property‑tax capacity
Summary
A county bond advisor outlined financing options for a $20M courthouse renovation versus a $36M new building, showing property‑tax and gross‑receipts scenarios and estimated mill‑levy impacts; commissioners favored pursuing state partnership and lower‑cost renovation options to limit taxpayer burden.
Mark Valenzuela, bond advisor with Bosque Advisory Group, presented financing scenarios to the Grant County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 11 for a potential courthouse project and stressed the importance of matching project size to the county’s constitutional debt limits. "Based on $900 million of assessed value, the county’s gross constitutional capacity is about $36 million and net bonding capacity is roughly $26 million after existing debt," Valenzuela said. He laid out two project scales — a $20 million…
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