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in the Annex would probably be in use for more than five <br />years, but he did have a problem with renovating a 70 x 40 <br />space in an existing building for $325,000. <br />Commissioner Scurlock objected to the $52,000 estimated <br />for a covered walkway. <br />Judge .Smith made the point that the estimate for the <br />jail facility was $450,000, and he understood that a <br />prefabricated jail would cost $19.00 per bed rather than <br />$37.00 per bed. He did not feel we needed to build a Taj <br />Mahal for a jail. <br />Commissioner Lyons took offense at this remark and <br />informed the Judge that the contract with the architect <br />included investigating the possibility of prefabrication of <br />part of the jail. <br />Judge Smith continued to argue about costs, etc., and <br />emphasized that the lack of availability of a larger <br />courtroom would be a bottleneck to the entire judicial <br />system. <br />Attorney Charles Sullivan took the floor and spoke <br />eloquently of the urgent need for a fourth courtroom in the <br />Annex as he believed it would be a disaster to break off <br />part of the system at this point. He brought up the <br />technical problems involved with using Judge Stikelether's <br />court, pointing out that County Court operates almost two <br />weeks a month while criminal cases may go on for weeks at a <br />time. Attorney Sullivan agreed that everything costs too <br />much these days, but, like it or not, it is necessary to <br />have adequate facilities for a court system. Since the <br />Board already has money invested with the architect, he felt <br />we should put Mr. Calmes' proposal out to bid. <br />Administrator Wright commented that actually the <br />proposed renovation of the room in the Annex would result in <br />a courtroom only slightly larger than Judge Stikelether's <br />NOV 16 1983 <br />123 <br />QQlf '-5 PAGE 4 <br />