Newton County commissioners have decided expanding an overcrowded judicial center, at a cost of $7 million, should take precedence over most of the other projects approved under the 2011 SPLOST. The Newton County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward with finalizing the expansion’s designs and construction budget and to bid out the work. However, in order to move ahead with the work, the board decided to temporarily take SPLOST money from other projects that aren’t as pressing and move the funds to the judicial center expansion. Finding enough money The one project