(Spirit Lake)– With just weeks to go before taking office, incoming Dickinson County Attorney Rosalise Olson still doesn’t know where her office is going to be.
The board of supervisors Tuesday discussed the matter again for a couple of hours. They pretty much ruled out plans to locate in the former Farm Bureau Building west of the courthouse. After hearing it was going to cost atleast 45-thousand dollars to address water and mold problems in the basement, to fix the foundation and put in a restroom, supervisors Wayne Northey and Dave Gottsche voted in favor of a motion directing Olson to get leasing costs on other buildings. She is to report back next week. Supervisor Chair June Goldman voted against the motion, saying it would be cheaper in the long run to make the repairs to the former Farm Bureau building. But Northey is concerned there’s no guarantee spending the 45-thousand dollars will take care of the building’s problems.
Another option that was briefly discussed is to pour a concrete slab just west of the former Farm Bureau building and to move the building onto it…and to fill in the basement of the existing building, making it into a parking lot. Goldman wants to see some cost estimates on that before ruling out the option altogether.
Olson ran on a campaign promise she’d move into the former Farm Bureau building, which the county owns, in a cost-saving effort. But she said Tuesday she had no idea at the time the building is in the shape it’s in.
