ADEL, Iowa —

District Court Judge Chuck Sinnard has worked in the Dallas County Courthouse for over two decades.

Since then, the community has changed drastically , jumping from a population of just over 40,000 people to almost 120,000.

And it's left the courthouse struggling to keep up.

"In that time, we've added one courtroom to this courthouse to accommodate that growth," Sinnard said.

That rapid growth has the county asking voters to approve over $66 million in funding to build a new criminal courthouse in Adel .

The current courthouse was built over 120 years ago and holds 6 courtrooms — one of which is under construction — for all of the county's civil and criminal trials. Until construction finishes, only three of those courtrooms are big enough to seat a full-size jury.

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