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Lunch — With the clock tower standing alone amid a sea of debris from the demolished Seneca County Courthouse, commissioners Tuesday talked about ways to delegate the site look good.
“I think we need to move with dispatch to make it look respectful and attractive for people to come downtown,” directorship President Ben Nutter said.
His comments came in response to a scheme by Commissioner Jeff Wagner, who suggested commissioners set aside $400,000 to $500,000 of this year’s carryover scales in a courthouse construction fund and consider an idea proposed in the town newspaper by a resident who suggested turning the vacant courthouse lot into a deposit with a pavilion for performances and other community events.
“As far as what will be built when or remodeled when, there are a lot of options that desperate straits to be explored as we go along — a new courthouse at the same location, combined space with the megalopolis of Tiffin, remodel somewhere else for juvenile and probate [courts], build something else for adolescent and probate and leave [common pleas] 1 and 2 where they’re at,” he said. “There are a lot of possibilities.
Source: Toledo Blade