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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Colton find that, although retrofitting of the current Courthouse is necessary to preserve a building of significant hi value, the retrofitting of the current Courthouse before building a new multiplex Courthou would be ineffective and insufficient to meet the needs of the community; and WHEREAS, retrofitting the current Courthouse would only solve the seismic proble and not the problems regarding the lack of space for the public and the housing of additiona judicial officers and their staff (in 1998, an estimated 2,651 people per day came to the Courthouse), the housing of auxiliary agencies to better serve the public, and the in of the best security measures; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Colton support the construction operation of a new multiplex Central Courthouse in downtown San Bernardino to meet th increased requirement for additional judgeships, to improve security, to take advantage c technological and architectural advances, to improve efficiency, to increase judicial and publi safety by improving the method of prisoner transportation, and to improve and expand publi access to judicial services by housing auxiliary agencies in one facility, thereby, increasing th economies of scale, as well as the eventual retrofit and replacement of facilities that ar seismically unsafe to preserve the historical components of the 1926 Central Courthouse. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: The Board of Supervisors for the County of San Bernardino be requester to revisit the February 1999 Final Report for the San Bernardino Court System Need: Assessment/Program Statement and Consolidated Courts Master Plan prepared by the Rosser/Carter Goble Team (at a cost to taxpayers of $500,000.00) and commence the proses; of constructing a new County Courthouse by allocating sufficient funds for that purpose commencing with a Request For Proposals for the appropriate architectural and engineerinc plans from which a new Courthouse may be constructed sufficient to accommodate the judicia needs of the County, Court Administration, District Attorney, Public Defender, and Probatior Services for this century. SECTION 2: That the Board of Supervisors be requested to instruct the Cou lobbyists to work with our State Legislators and Congressional Representatives to secure sr funding as may be available from Federal and State governments to assist in the funding for 3