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The scrutiny over a new 48 million dollar courthouse built with some of the same luxuries as a five star resort continues.

Today state senators grilled court administrators over the lavish spending on the First District Court of Appeal building in Tallahassee. The new courthouse is fitted with a gym, kitchens, private bathrooms and dozens of 60 inch flat screen TVs. Chairman of the Civil Justice Appropriations Committee Mike Fasano wants to move the Justice Administration into the new courthouse to make better use of the space.

“I’d like to see about moving them over to the First District Court of Appeal as well. They have right now 78 state employees and they are working these 78 in a facility of 12-thousand square foot, and yet we just built a 100-thousand square foot facility for just over a hundred employees,” said Fasano.

Fasano hopes to save close to a million dollars a year by moving as many state employees as he can into the new building.