New Montgomery Municipal Court Officially Open For Business

The next time you have to pay a ticket or make an appearance in court, you’ll notice a big change from Montgomery’s old building.

Instead of just one courtroom there are now two, and plenty of pay windows for everyone coming through.

Mayor Todd Strange says this has been a need for quite some time now.

“Well frankly it’s been a priority, but frankly we haven’t been able to do this as quickly as we would have liked to. We should have done this three years ago. We had a building that it was going into, we actually had a press conference where a private developer was going to buy that property and put downtown residential living,”said Strange.

But that plan never came together.

Now the new building sits where the old department of revenue building once stood.

The money didn’t just go towards building the new municipal court. It also helped with several other projects around the city.

“$25 million in 2013 was secured through financing. A large part of that went to park crossing as well as the LAMP building that’s under construction. Now we’ve paved about 130 miles of streets with that,” said Mayor Strange.

The main goal of the new building is to make things easier for residents, and employees. Everyone gets their own desk, and the work should go a lot faster.

“Now we have the ability to get citizens in and out more efficiently so as opposed to waiting around three or four hours, hopefully we can cut that time in half and get them out in maybe two hours if they’re scheduled for trial,” said Judge Milton Westry.