County to Consolidate 3 Offices in Same Locale

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to pay $35.1 million to consolidate three operations--the Registrar of Voters and the Recorder’s and Clerk’s offices--into a single office building in Norwalk.

The county will pay $27.6 million for a seven-story building in the Norwalk Civic Center and spend another $7.5 million on improvements. About 650 employees now in offices downtown and in the City of Commerce will move into the new facility by 1993.

The move is supposed to provide greater efficiency for the three offices, which were consolidated into a single department by board actions in 1968 and earlier this year. Charles Weissburd, the registrar-recorder and county clerk, said his department will save nearly $1.2 million a year alone in lower utility payments and maintenance costs.