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JUN 131990 I Book 80 F"," years, but he contended it would be a better use of the taxpayers' money to incorporate this footage in the master plan. Commissioner Scurlock asked if Mr. Donatio was aware that some of the rentals in the 2001 Building will be moving into our, new Health Building, and Administrator Chandler confirmed that the Health Building should be completed in approximately a year. He further advised that we are considering two other alterna- tives for alleviating the rental situation - the old main library and the existing Health Building. Mr. Donatio continued his presentation, referring to the architectural survey that was done, which showed that the Courthouse was built in 1937, the Depression era, by the WPA, and it is a WPA utilitarian style. It also showed that the building seems to be structurally sound. Commissioner Scurlock asked if we were going to leave the building up, if the least cost to the County wouldn't be to allow that facility to be used by the Historical Society, or some other group, and go ahead and acquire the parking at an additional cost of about $800,000. He felt that would be by far the cheapest way. Mr. Donatio agreed it would if the County wanted to give up 16,000 sq. ft. of the judicial complex. Commissioner Scurlock noted that apparently Mr. Donatio wants to have us use that 16,000 sq. ft. and put the Judges in it, or the State's Attorney and the Public Defender, the Clerk, etc., but he stressed that we want a court facility that is going to be state of the art, functional and integrated - something that can keep people happy for the next 30 years. Mr. Donatio believed the building has had a bad stereotype through the years because of some of the air problems, etc., but what he wished to propose is totally renovating the Courthouse. Commissioner Scurlock noted that the Board in past years spent a great deal of time dealing with complaints from the 12