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out in fact if there was a flaw in the population projections. The second question is: Does it really change the space and staff_ projections that were put into the report? Randy is expecting a report by the end of the week. . STATUS REPORT ON NEW COURTHOUSE OPTION D: The Courts sub committee has raised the question of building a new Courthouse. You can read more about this in your Courts sub commit- tee minutes. This concept has been labeled option D. Randy has broken it down into 2 parts Di and D2. The concept is to build a new justice center on the Senator block and convert this building into an administrative office building. Their Justification is the public would rather buy a new justice center than an administrative building. There are some real cost factors and flaws in the implementation. Randy has done some preliminary cost estimates and the consultants are checking all the assumptions. Randy should have a report by the end of next week. If we were to build a new justice center, there would not be enough space in the Courthouse for all the departments currently on the Senator block. This would still leave us with not enough space. The question is where would they go? Either we do a public administration annex on the Senator block along with the justice center and scale it down or they move to some other location in the community and we have not analyzed those options. But we do know we don't have enough space in the Courthouse for the dislocated departments. The Housing Authority office is included in this, but no apartments. The Courthouse has the potential of being a 6 story building, but that would require gutting and remodeling the entire building. The consultants are looking at the cost to modify and current seismic, fire, life, safety codes.