By Stephanie Ockerman - Managing Editor
Sun, May 18 2008
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Committee members have yet to officially name the site for the county’s new justice center, but recent activity suggests a site has been selected.
Surveyors have been busy the past few weeks at property located at West Main Street and Norman Wells Lane and the former Cowden property that now belongs to Morehead State.
“The justice center not (locating) in the downtown business district will be a significant blow to the hope of bringing businesses back to downtown Morehead,” said councilman Al Baldwin during the March 10 meeting of Morehead City Council.
Baldwin’s comments came during council’s discussion with members of a small business support group called Uniquely Morehead.
At the regular fiscal court meeting on Tuesday, magistrates approved issuing $13.5 million in bonds for a court facilities project.
The committee that will select a site has been meeting since last fall to determine the best location to build the center. All county offices and circuit and district court rooms will be housed there.
The justice center committee is comprised of Circuit Judge William Mains, District Judge Bill Lane, Judge-executive Jim Nickell, magistrate Jerry Flannery, attorney Paul Stokes, Jerry Ravenscraft and Jerry Alderman.
One issue the committee is considering is how much it will cost the county to transport inmates from the current jail to the justice center.
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