City-county building unlikely

Decatur Daily Democrat:

Hopes for a new city-county building in Decatur and a move out of the current superior court building seemed to fade away on Thursday with the unseasonable weather being experienced here earlier this week.

At a meeting held in the superior court room involving city and county officials plus interested citizens, high costs and all manner of legal hoops to jump through to get a referendum on the November ballot apparently have doomed the plans — hopes would be a more appropriate word — for a new structure which would house superior court, the county probation department, plus a city police station and city hall, and possibility other entities.