Municipal judges order city to build them a new courthouse

January 26, 2009 at 5:40p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s three municipal court judges are ordering city council and Mayor Jay Williams to “provide suitable facilities for the operation” of the court “now.”

The judges filed a journal entry Monday ordering the new court facility be at least 34,000 square feet.

City administrators say they’d like to accommodate then but there isn’t enough money for a new court facility. The city is facing a projected $3 million general fund deficit this year.

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