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Kendall County adding more judges and courtrooms to manage growing caseload · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County adding more judges and courtrooms to manage growing caseload.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkopf. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Board is moving ahead with a plan to build
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  Speaker 1: two new courtrooms to help manage the county's growing caseload.
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  Speaker 1: At the July seventh Kendall County Board meeting, board members
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  Speaker 1: voted to approve a five hundred and twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Dewberry architects Ink for architecture and engineering services
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  Speaker 1: for the courtroom project. Kendall County has been assigned to
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  Speaker 1: additional judges. Getting Dewberry on board is the first step,
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Board Chairman Matt Kellogg said in talking about
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  Speaker 1: the project. Dewberry plans to have drawings ready before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: The second floor of the Kendall County Courthouse includes shell
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  Speaker 1: space that was constructed with the two thousand and eight
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  Speaker 1: zero nine edition in anticipation of the county's continued growth.
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  Speaker 1: The second floor can accommodate up to five additional courtrooms.
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Administrator Christina Burns said in a memo. There
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  Speaker 1: is eight million dollars budgeted in the county's Public Safety
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  Speaker 1: Capital Fund for the project. Making improvements to Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: facilities has been a priority for county leaders. Earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: a nine point nine million dollars renovation of the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Office Building in downtown Yorkville was completed. The building
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  Speaker 1: houses the Kendall County Board, as well as the Treasurer's Office,
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  Speaker 1: Assessor's Office, Administration Office, Finance Office, Human Resources Office, Geographic
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  Speaker 1: Information System's Office, and the Planning Building and Zoning Office.
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  Speaker 1: The project comes on the back of the construction of
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  Speaker 1: a new nine point four million dollars building for the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Clerk, Recorder and election offices. That building, located
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  Speaker 1: at five zero two South Main Street, next to the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Office Building, opened in the summer of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. County officials also are looking at building a
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  Speaker 1: new facility for Kendall County Animal Control, as well making
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  Speaker 1: improvements to the Richard A. Randall Public Safety Center