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Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett is seeking more than $1.7 million from next year's county budget for the major remodeling of the DA's office space in the Justice Center at Sixth Street and Canyon Boulevard.
The project is needed, Garnett told Boulder County commissioners Tuesday, to address what he said are the physical deficiencies, crowded conditions, and dysfunctional current layouts of the various offices, cubicles, corridors and rooms the DA's staff, witnesses, victims and others now have to cope with. The last significant remodel to the building was when the district attorney's office first moved in in the early- to mid-1980s, he said.
Garnett said the current floor plan is "not even close to adequate for a modern law office."
He acknowledged during his Tuesday morning budget presentation,Installers and distributors of solar panel, attended by about 20 members of his staff, that he's asking for "a significant amount of money" for the proposed remodel, which he said could be split into two phases and spread over two years' budgets.
"It's an investment, though, in the Justice Center that's worth making," Garnett said.Manufactures flexible plastic and synthetic rubber hose tubing,
Garnett and his staff reported that the DA's offices now are widely spaced with circuitous traffic flows, creating inefficiencies for people who are supposed to work together.
"The main areas of the office are occupied by staff who work in cubicles," the DA's Office wrote in its budget request, adding that those areas would be better used as open work and meeting spaces "which are at present minimal in the office."
The DA's Office's reception area "is virtually non-existent," Garnett's staff has written. "There is a bottleneck at the front door, with defendants, attorneys, crime victims and members of the public jostling for space at the reception window. There is no seating away from the general hallway, which is often crowded, for visitors to the DA's Office to wait."
Garnett read the commissioners a set of observations from his staff about the problems posed by the current configuration and conditions of their Justice Center offices.
"Having to discuss personal matters with citizens who have come to our division for help" is a problem in the consumer protection division, one employee -- not identified by Garnett -- said. "We have to hold our discussions outside in the hallway. If people are at the tables, you can't discuss their personal problems with people listening in."
Garnett quoted another employee as saying that "I have a couple of times come upon women" victims or witnesses, "in tears in the bathroom. I assume this is because this is a refuge they can go to when upset. I always feel that they are hiding out in there because there is nowhere else."
Said Garnett about that worker's observation: "We have heard this from a number of folks."
Another employee, Garnett said, complained that "with the lack of offices without doors and walls, plus the lack of conference rooms and break rooms, it causes private, work-related and chit-chat type of conversations to be held in and around my work area and in the neighboring passing hallways. This not only distracts me from my work but it sidetracks my normal work routine, especially on my busy days with limited time to prepare my daily work before court."
Others objected to the quirks of the current heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
Garnett quoted one staffer as saying: "I can't wear skirts, even on court dates, as I am so cold. Most people in the offices that are close to mine use space heaters. I wonder what the Boulder community would say if they knew how much energy the county is wasting."
Yet other staffers in the DA's Office, Garnett said, have reported mounds of anthills outside their offices' exterior walls, opaque ceiling tiles full of dead wasps, people getting headaches because of the poor air quality inside the building, and -- said one person he quoted -- work areas that "are sort of patched together. Desks are not level, storage space is limited, desktops don't meet and some have big gaps between them,Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot. insufficient lighting,An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a term used for a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. file cabinet drawers stick or don't open."
Garnett said about $300,000 of the total $1.7 million requested is needed for basic "infrastructure" improvements, such as upgrades to an electrical system that he said sometimes now shuts off computers when a coffee pot is plugged in.
Much of the Justice Center area now occupied by the District Attorney's Office originally was designed to be a jail, Garnett noted, and the building -- which also houses Boulder County district and county courts and probation offices -- presents problems in accommodating how it's now used.
"The space, while arguably well designed for a jail, is not suitable for a law office of 66 employees, community volunteers and the many visitors who are here each day," the DA's staff wrote in its budget request.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett is seeking more than $1.7 million from next year's county budget for the major remodeling of the DA's office space in the Justice Center at Sixth Street and Canyon Boulevard.
The project is needed, Garnett told Boulder County commissioners Tuesday, to address what he said are the physical deficiencies, crowded conditions, and dysfunctional current layouts of the various offices, cubicles, corridors and rooms the DA's staff, witnesses, victims and others now have to cope with. The last significant remodel to the building was when the district attorney's office first moved in in the early- to mid-1980s, he said.
Garnett said the current floor plan is "not even close to adequate for a modern law office."
He acknowledged during his Tuesday morning budget presentation,Installers and distributors of solar panel, attended by about 20 members of his staff, that he's asking for "a significant amount of money" for the proposed remodel, which he said could be split into two phases and spread over two years' budgets.
"It's an investment, though, in the Justice Center that's worth making," Garnett said.Manufactures flexible plastic and synthetic rubber hose tubing,
Garnett and his staff reported that the DA's offices now are widely spaced with circuitous traffic flows, creating inefficiencies for people who are supposed to work together.
"The main areas of the office are occupied by staff who work in cubicles," the DA's Office wrote in its budget request, adding that those areas would be better used as open work and meeting spaces "which are at present minimal in the office."
The DA's Office's reception area "is virtually non-existent," Garnett's staff has written. "There is a bottleneck at the front door, with defendants, attorneys, crime victims and members of the public jostling for space at the reception window. There is no seating away from the general hallway, which is often crowded, for visitors to the DA's Office to wait."
Garnett read the commissioners a set of observations from his staff about the problems posed by the current configuration and conditions of their Justice Center offices.
"Having to discuss personal matters with citizens who have come to our division for help" is a problem in the consumer protection division, one employee -- not identified by Garnett -- said. "We have to hold our discussions outside in the hallway. If people are at the tables, you can't discuss their personal problems with people listening in."
Garnett quoted another employee as saying that "I have a couple of times come upon women" victims or witnesses, "in tears in the bathroom. I assume this is because this is a refuge they can go to when upset. I always feel that they are hiding out in there because there is nowhere else."
Said Garnett about that worker's observation: "We have heard this from a number of folks."
Another employee, Garnett said, complained that "with the lack of offices without doors and walls, plus the lack of conference rooms and break rooms, it causes private, work-related and chit-chat type of conversations to be held in and around my work area and in the neighboring passing hallways. This not only distracts me from my work but it sidetracks my normal work routine, especially on my busy days with limited time to prepare my daily work before court."
Others objected to the quirks of the current heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
Garnett quoted one staffer as saying: "I can't wear skirts, even on court dates, as I am so cold. Most people in the offices that are close to mine use space heaters. I wonder what the Boulder community would say if they knew how much energy the county is wasting."
Yet other staffers in the DA's Office, Garnett said, have reported mounds of anthills outside their offices' exterior walls, opaque ceiling tiles full of dead wasps, people getting headaches because of the poor air quality inside the building, and -- said one person he quoted -- work areas that "are sort of patched together. Desks are not level, storage space is limited, desktops don't meet and some have big gaps between them,Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot. insufficient lighting,An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a term used for a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. file cabinet drawers stick or don't open."
Garnett said about $300,000 of the total $1.7 million requested is needed for basic "infrastructure" improvements, such as upgrades to an electrical system that he said sometimes now shuts off computers when a coffee pot is plugged in.
Much of the Justice Center area now occupied by the District Attorney's Office originally was designed to be a jail, Garnett noted, and the building -- which also houses Boulder County district and county courts and probation offices -- presents problems in accommodating how it's now used.
"The space, while arguably well designed for a jail, is not suitable for a law office of 66 employees, community volunteers and the many visitors who are here each day," the DA's staff wrote in its budget request.
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