Amador County – The Amador County Board of Supervisors voted to move the Victim-Witness Department office and the Public Conservator’s Department office during their regular meeting Tuesday. The Victim-Witness Department will move into the space occupied by the Public Conservator Department, which will first move into the new Health & Human Services building on Conductor Boulevard near Sutter Hill. Amador County Chief Administrative Officer Terri Daly read a letter to the Amador County Administrative Committee asking for the move of the Victim-Witness office, into the District Attorney’s office on Court Street. Daly said the “Public conservator’s office is in need of more office space” and the county has “known about this situation for quite some time.”

The second issue was the Victim-Witness Office. Daly said it is located across the street from the old courthouse and the Victim-Witness office is budgeted to pay $13,200 in rent and “the landlord has expressed interest in our operation vacating the property.” Daly said the Health & Human Service building now has office space available and she proposed moving the Public Conservator’s office to the Health & Human Services building. Daly said “the conservator’s office shares many clients with other operations at the HHS building and the space is available to suite the conservator’s office.” She said the District Attorney supports the move. District Attorney Todd Riebe told the supervisors that the move of the Public Conservator’s office would open up space for evidence storage in the DA’s building. After moving the conservator’s office to the HHS building, the vacant office space in the DA’s office could then house the Victim-Witness operation. Daly said “moving the Victim-Witness office into the DA’s building would eliminate payment of the rent.” In addition, DA staff would be available to back-up and better support the 2-person victim-witness operation. Daly said the county would like to enact the moves by January 1, 2009. The board approved the moves on a 5-0 vote. Story by Jim Reece (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).