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gests a 100 to 150 square foot secretary/reception area.
SPACE for sequestering witnesses prior to court appearance is needed, according to the University planners. Ideally., two spaces should be provided, but one could suffice. The 100 square foot rooms could also be used as conference or holding rooms,
The clerk’s office is already seriously overcrowded. The report recognizes this and also allows for future needs. Each court clerk should continue to have a private office but the two should be located in closer proximity because of shared equipment and close working relationship, the report suggests.
In addition, the Circuit clerk should be moved out of a separate facility and into the courthouse proper or a new addition. A basement on the addition is proposed as an “excellent and inexpensive means of gaining additional space.” The report estimates that 100 to 200 square feet will be needed to handle the clerk’s additional staff, with storage space for records to be increased as needed.
Also suggested is allowance of 80 to 120 square feet for a court reporter. While the prosecuting attorney’s function may expand in the future, the planners didn’t estimate increased space needs there and assumed that the added workload would be handled by making the position full-time, instead of part-time. The county currently does not have a public defender, and if one is used in the future, the report recommended that office space be provided outside the Court House.
THREE alternatives to accommodate the increasing space needs are presented in the document. The first alternative, to remove all non-court related activities from the Court House, would provide only about 780 square feet when
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