A team planning effort, utilizing a diverse committee of resident volunteers, helped the County develop a long-term growth plan for facilities in this fast growing county. The year-long study allowed the public to become stakeholders in determining how to accommodate future growth and led to the renovation and addition to a former Carnegie Library for the county’s administrative services. The original library building houses the county commissioner’s hearing room and meeting and reception areas. The rotunda had been covered with a dropped ceiling, which was opened up and restored to create a monumental reception space. The addition is used for the county government and houses the EMS and EMA offices, and the Emergency Response System which had to remain in operation 24 hours a day during construction. The project received the Palladio Award for sympathetic additions from Restore Media’s Traditional Building Magazine.
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