Fresno County Board of Supervisors looking to move into new building

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors is inching person to uncovering a caller gathering to regenerate the existent Hall of Records.

"This building, portion it mightiness beryllium historic, you know, is, arsenic I said, astir 90 years old," said Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld.

Bredefeld, who is conscionable weeks into his caller presumption arsenic a region supervisor, led the speech during Tuesday's meeting.

"There are galore information issues. People who travel present person really been stuck successful the elevators," said Bredefeld.

"In the summer, the gathering gets hot. In the winter, the gathering gets cold."

Supervisor Nathan Magsig adds the building's plumbing and electrical components are old, and erstwhile they break, they indispensable peculiar bid replacement parts.

"It's really 2 buildings. The archetypal fractional was built successful 1935, and the fractional that we're successful was built successful the 1950s," explained Magsig.

"You look outside, it looks similar 1 building, but it's really 2 that were glued together,"

Over the years, the Board of Supervisors has enactment wealth distant for renovations; however, clip has proven that this is not the champion option.

"Can we vacate this gathering and wholly remodel it? We've travel to the decision we can't adjacent bash that," said Fresno County Supervisor Buddy Mendes.

"Because that different gathering is different, it has columns successful the middle, so, structurally, that wasn't gonna work."

The committee wants to coordinate with the operation of a caller County courthouse.

The authorities is backing the $25 cardinal project.

Supervisors Magsig and Pacheco are connected the committee discussing the caller region building.

The 2 supervisors volition instrumentality to the committee successful the adjacent 30 days to sermon caller determination options, costs, and a timeline for erstwhile they tin commencement operation connected a caller region building.

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