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OCT 20 1982 x, 51 na670 V County Commission, he was wrong. If he was saying it was one-upsmanship on the part of Judge Stikelether as opposed to the County Commission, he was wrong. The Judge stated he would like to see the Judge and the County Commission, and not versus, in search for truth and find the solution to this problem for everyone's benefit; not just for just himself and Mrs. Edwards, but for the people that work in that environment. Chairman Scurlock commented that we live in a small community and know each other pretty well and he had respected the Judge for a great deal of time. Based on all the information up to this morning, he had intended to tell the Judge to get back into the courtroom as this community could not afford the price of uncertainty in the dollars in order to make an environment safe and sound. The suggestion that a leave of absence would be what is going to bring about a remission in the Judge's condition - that was a hard decision for him to make. After hearing the information today, and reviewing the statistics to indicate the Judge's caseload is about double that of similar county judges, he thought Commissioner Lyons' solution was the only possible one to use and that was to find the Judge some additional quarters for a temporary period of time. The Chairman added that if an additional judge was needed, obviously he could occupy the existing quarters without renovations. The fourth courtroom would be available within the next year or so which would give time for the Judge's conditions to improve; this would give the Board time to plan and research the new courtroom and construct it in a way that was both financially reasonable and meet the Judge's needs. The Chairman was happy other options were made available because it would have been very hard for him to look a man you respect in the eye and tell him he was expected to go back into the courtroom. He added that he would not vote for