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Residents of Overton County can start conducting county business in the new municipality building starting November 16th.
County Executive Ben Danner said county offices will be closed from the 11th to the 13th to finish moving to the location on West Main Street.
“These offices will have a lot more room then that got now, and for the public waiting like to get your tags or pay property taxes,” Danner said. “The counters are a lot further back from the door and the room where the lobby is at right there is bigger than the whole office they got now. It is going to be a lot more user friendly.”
Danner said overall construction for the three story 23,000 square foot building is complete. The County Executive and Veterans office will be located on the top floor with all other county offices on the main floor. The archives will operate out of the basement.
“That building over there is going to be set up really nice for all the citizens to come in, and I think it is going to be a building that the people in this county can be proud of for 100 years from now,” Danner said. “It has been 100 years since we moved into a new building.”
Danner said he wanted to have a ribbon cutting event thanking Millard Oakly and First National bank for the $2 million dollar donation for the project, but rising COVID number will prevent this.
“Our numbers have fell off some in the last few days, but I just do not think right now is the time to have anything like that. We are putting that off until next year to see how things are going then, and then, we may try to have some big event.”
Each floor of the Millard V. Oakley County Services building is 9,000 square foot, and the basement is 5,000 square foot. Twin Lakes will installing computers and Internet for the offices during the move in week.
