{"id":35699,"date":"2026-04-15T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=35699"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:15","slug":"back-to-the-drawing-board-commissioners-want-new-plan-for-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/back-to-the-drawing-board-commissioners-want-new-plan-for-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the drawing board? Commissioners want new plan for courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decision on what to do about Adams County&#8217;s courthouse and judicial services will be even longer in coming, thanks to actions taken during Tuesday&#8217;s Commissioners meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commissioners received a report and a proposal from Elevatus Architects.  However, the Commissioners said the $27 million price tag on the proposal was too expensive.  The Commissioners then listened to a plea from Judge Sam Conrad to keep the courts in the courthouse, but to move the Superior Court to the first floor and move other offices to a new facility northwest of the courthouse.  The Commissioners understood the request, but again cited the cost of the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the Commissioners are requesting Elevatus to come up with yet another plan that will meet the courts&#8217; needs for several years to come, and yet not put a stress on the county&#8217;s finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WZBD&#8217;s Ed Thurman asked Commissioners President Steve Bailey what comes next&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NEWSJUSTICE415.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It will take several weeks for officials at Elevatus to come up with a new design, but the Commissioners made it clear that they wand to make a final decision&#8230;and soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision on what to do about Adams County&#8217;s courthouse and judicial services will be even longer in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-35699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/adams-county-courthouse.jpg?fit=640%2C765&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35701,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions\/35701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}