TU: Issue of used furniture for Duval courthouse still unsettled

I suspect this will be an ongoing issue for some time, but with a budget deficit of almost 60 million dollars it seem foolhardy and silly to put us further in debt buying new furniture for the new, very overpriced, courthouse.

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Mayor Alvin Brown brings back items used in the Peyton administration.

While a dispute about furnishing part of the new Duval County  Courthouse seems to have hit a standstill, a furniture dilemma a few months back  casts a dim shadow from Jacksonville City Hall.

Mayor Alvin Brown has seemed happy to say he won't let taxpayer money be  lavished on outfitting the seventh-floor hearing rooms, where judges argue the  mayor's plan to use furniture from the 1950s-vintage courthouse on Bay Street is  utterly impractical.

"It may be in the budget, but I'm not spending $5,000 for a  desk," he told the Times-Union's editorial board last month when he talked about  plans the city drew up years earlier to outfit the new building. "It's just, I  can't justify that."

Watch: Mayor Alvin Brown talks furniture with the editorial  board

Judges have responded that there are 37 hearing rooms that  need to be furnished, and they can outfit maybe three with furniture from Bay  Street.

Read more at Jacksonville.com:  http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-05-07/story/issue-used-furn...


 

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