By GREG WELTER
WILLOWS — Glenn County supervisors took another step Tuesday in the lengthy process of remodeling and expanding the historic Glenn County Courthouse in Willows.
County Counsel Huston Carlyle said the county has received a revised equity rights agreement from the state, prompting supervisors to approve the execution of deeds and other documents needed to transfer title for the 115-year-old building to the Administrative Office of the Courts.
The AOC is expected to authorize funding of $443,000 to cover a temporary move of the courts to an alternate facility during the remodeling, Carlyle said.
"Once that money is received, the courts will have 60 days to vacate that building," he said.
The courthouse building is slated to get a major facelift which will include a second judge's chambers, a mediation area, an inmate holding facility and a second courtroom in space previously occupied by the Glenn County Board of Supervisors, which moved across the street to the Veteran's Memorial Building in 2009.
All renovations will conform to state historic building standards, and an addition to the building completed in the 1940s, which doesn't conform, will be removed, officials said.
The $46.2 million project is scheduled for completion by 2015.
Officials estimate the construction may generate close to 1,000 local jobs.
Current plans call for the courthouse building in Orland to be converted to another use by the county.
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