Vacant for a decade, the State of California offered to hand it over to the county for just $1, but the catch is a massive repair bill.
"It's a long history. The building is 125-plus years old. This is the third version of the building on that site. It's burned down twice in the past," said Ken Sra, general services director with Sutter County.
"We've had complaints of rodents. We've seen pigeons, other types of birds flying into the building. There's asbestos, there's lead. All those things need to be remediated," Sra said.
The county says that wasn't something they could afford.
The county says the state returned with a new offer in 2024. They would sell the old courthouse for just $1.
However, to get the building back to a usable condition and up to current code, the county estimates that upwards of $20 million worth of work needs to be done.
The judicial council said in a statement to CBS News Sacramento that the state owns roughly 83% of the equity and that it has offered the county to purchase that equity, but the county hasn't been willing to do so and the efforts to dispose of its rights to the facility have been unsuccessful.
The state says they can't sell the property because the county remains as the title holder. The county doesn't want to assume ownership of a building that needs millions to repair.
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