A lively crowd of local government leaders, county employees and their families, former employees and local residents filled the atrium of the new Oconee County Administrative Building on Tuesday afternoon for the building’s official ribbon cutting.
County Administrator Justin Kirouac did the honors at the request of County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell.
“We’re going to ask Justin to do the ribbon cutting for all of his hard work on everything he has done,” Daniell said.
Kirouac, in his comments to the gathering, said the building “is for Oconee County, for the citizens,” and provides “a one-stop shop for our community, a central gathering place and, for the best staff in the state, the ability to work collaboratively.”
Kirouac also said the county was able to consolidate four other “ill-fitting structures” and sell three of those, putting them back on the tax rolls.
Kirouac was surrounded by Commissioners Mark Thomas, Chuck Horton, Mark Saxon, Amrey Harden and Daniell, as he used the oversized scissors to cut a large blue ribbon that only moments before had been stretched in front of him.
Architect Adam Glenn, and Mark Sutter and William “Peanut” Schell from Mathias Corporation, the contractor, joined the group for the official cutting.
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