City of Oklahoma City Videos, 4 Aug 2015

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From YouTube: New City Courthouse Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Oklahoma City officials broke ground on the new Municipal Courts Building, which will serve Oklahoma City residents with six state-of-the-art courtrooms.

The $22.8 million project, located at 701 Couch Drive, is part of the new Municipal Courts Complex, which also includes the soon-to-be-completed police headquarters and a parking plaza.

A

Oh here we go. Let's do it again, while.

B

Our current building has a bit of good home for us. We have outgrown it and the building has outlived its useful life. So we're glad to be here today recognizing the groundbreaking for the new building I. Think.

A

We should start by first thanking the citizens of Oklahoma City, who, in 2007, passed their bond issue overwhelmingly, allowing us to construct to continue to rebuild Oklahoma City, so a round of applause, I think appropriate to the voters of Oklahoma City time and time again they have put their faith in them in the staff and the elected leaders in Oklahoma City, and what this really is is just a continued escalation on the trajectory we've been on for the last 20 years with maps.

A

What I think we really did was just establish that we can do better and that we're going to set a higher standard for whatever it is we're going to do in the city of Oklahoma City, and you see that I think it were in the replacement of a lot of buildings in the last few years, the the new police station, that's about to open the new fire stations that the voters have approved and you can go on and on, but now the new courts building, I think, is just another in a long line of our particular attention and appreciation of higher levels of design and functionality.

A

C

A real honor to be here today this sum to redo this building and to do the pre put build. A new police station is a monumental thing. It wasn't an easy task, as a councilman I can tell you going back to the time when those decisions were made. They were not easy and and I appreciate all the support that I received it trying to make it happen because I think we're going to reap the blessings from it for years to come.

C

I can remember discussions with the judge Delaney in the 80s about this about a new building. Even then, even though it had been worked on 20 years before that, even then the building so inadequate in terms of the design and as as things progressed, the new building is going to change all that it's going to be three stories: tall, 6,500 square feet of usable space. It's going to match in terms of design the Civic Center have to be built out of blond, brick and limestone so it'll be it'll, coordinate with all that.

C

It's going to have six courtrooms.

C

There, the lobby is going to have a monumental, staircase and granite benches. The building is designed with security. First, you know we're in an era now, when this building was started in the 40s and then finished in the 60s security wasn't near the question that it is today. This building is built with security in mind, to be a lot safer place for everybody that needs to utilize.

C

The building it's going to be convenient, we've got, we've got it, we rearrange things, so it makes it easier to pay a ticket and and get out or attend court and get out it's going to be. It's really going to be a welcome addition to the process. Judge.

D

A banger and judge Morgan they were like instrumental when they started this process. Judge Mangler was involved in the design and he a lot of input. So he was really looking forward to this day. Judge Morgan. She was like the art person, so she was going on like the Arts Committee, so I think sort of taking her place on their committee, but I'm not going to as well as she did, but we're going to be talking to her husband about that as the time goes on.

D

So I'm now I'm going to tell you about a year in the life of the Oklahoma City Municipal Court from july the firs 2 jun 2 30 2014. Our municipal court received just under two hundred eight thousand new citations from police, fire marshals, code enforcement officers, animal welfare officers, parking technicians and city county health officers for full time, Municipal, Court judges and several part-time judges hell just under 140,000 hearings.

D

Seven prosecutors resolved 145,000 cases without a trial. They tried 492 cases in 472 cases resulted in convictions. The prosecutors are supported by six staff members and for part-time clerks 81 court staff. Members kept the court open, 4380 hours and processed over two hundred, seventeen thousand citations, eight probation officers, guided 1590 adults and juveniles.

D

Two successful and timely, completed probations, 13 city marshals and five warrant investigators cleared over 61,000 warrants are municipal court building also houses for criminal justice attorneys who serve as the legal advisers for the police department, the municipal judges and the municipal court administrator. The court clerk provides support for police to conduct administrative hearings for nuisance abatement and the booting and impounding of vehicles, so that is a year in the life of the municipal courts. Building we're proud of all the things that we accomplished and all things that we will continue to accomplish.