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Structural updates made at the old Cumberland County Courthouse allowing the county to move forward with the next engineering inspection.
Mayor Allen Foster said the engineering group should start the inspection next week. He said metal beams were installed on the second and third floor to support the building.
“The next engineering group is going to come in and do an inspection of the inside and the general envelope of the whole older portion of the building,” Foster said. “That’s going to produce an engineering report that we could then use to bid out the final permanent solution.”
A leak in the building last year led engineers to find structural integrity issues which caused a portion of the building to close.
“They are going to spend two days climbing in the roofs and outside to give us a detailed report of that,” Foster said. “A couple weeks after that, we will get that detailed report and start working with architects to get everything approved and get the money in place.”
Foster said the next engineering report will determine the direction the county goes with the project..
