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Phil Yaccuci, Public Defender for the 19th Judicial Circuit, informed the Board that he is here to ask the Board to consider the future space determinations needed both for the Public Defender and for the States Attorney. He stressed that the Public Defender's office has a large number of citizens who come in to them every day, and they need to be in proximity with the State Attorney's office because they are required by law to cooperate with them in a number of areas. Commissioner Wheeler assured him that the space needs study done in 1987, which was done in cooperation with the former Public Defender, the States Attorney, the Clerk, the Judges, etc., addressed the space needs for each office. That study simply addressed the actual square footage required to accommodate everything, and when we get to the design phase, we will contact everyone involved to get their input as to how this should be set up. Tom Schlitt, realtor associated with Mr. Flick, had some concerns. He noted that he tried again to recontact most of the people they had talked to, and they are still very willing to work out something with the Commission. He believed the reason Mr. Graves is so concerned is that we are working in an area that for the last 10 years has had depressed sales consistently rather than fair market value if you took all office locations into consideration. He felt what might happen in Mr. Graves' case is that when he tried to relocate, he probably would be talking to someone who is not really interested in selling and can get a higher price. Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that the other option is that we don't build the Courthouse downtown and his property continues to degradate in value. He felt sure that the people in that area will get more for their property #han they would if we weren't building that facility because when we do finally locate the facility there, the property in that area will appreciate rapidly. The one big decision this Commission has to face is that if we are going to locate and try to do something in that downtown area, we are going to displace some people. The other option is that we can always move the building over near the new Health Building where we already own the property. Administrator Chandler again stressed that by law we have to go by appraised values, and staff feels extremely comfortable 45 DEC 19 � boor, L-