The Franklin County Election Commission was the first to move into the remodeled building, followed by the Franklin County Veterans Officer. Also, the Franklin County Rescue Squad is constructing a classroom in one of the bays once used by the vocational department of the former high school building. Franklin County Preservation is in the process of moving to the building, as well.

There is also a conference/meeting room that is used for various county government meetings.

Now county employees, as well as inmates from the Franklin County Jail, are in the process of building offices for the Franklin County Finance Department. "Other than the materials we aren’t having to pay that much to have the work performed," Franklin County Mayor Richard Stewart proudly pointed out last Thursday. "Our county maintenance people are more than qualified to do the work, plus there are carpenters, painters and sheetrock finishers in jail who are more than happy to do the work."

Stewart noted that there are also plans to move the Franklin County Industrial Board Office to the building.

The mayor noted that once the finance department moves to the annex building the building they are currently housed in would be sold. "We have talked to Winchester officials about possibly buying the building for the police department, but if they don’t buy it then we will sell it to someone else," Stewart explained. "We were able to sell the building that the election commission formerly occupied and now have it on the property tax rolls." He added that once the judicial center is completed, the Franklin County General Session Clerk’s Office will be moving out of the building on the square and that building will be sold.

"We are trying to be good steward’s of the taxpayer’s money and we feel by consolidating the various government offices into one building we are doing that," Stewart said.