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une reason, accoraing to the county administrator, is that the supervisors don’t like paying rent. The county currently is paying nearly $85,000 a year in rent on leases to house the Health Department, Social Services and county Extension offices in privately owned buildings in the town of Washington, McCarthy said. He added that officials also worry that these spaces someday might become unavailable, leaving the county scrambling to relocate those offices. The new center, to be built three or four years from now, could house at least two of them.
Fair enough. But at the current rate of $85,000, it would be 17.6 years from now before £he rent checks would equal the cost of a $1.5 million building (and by that time, you’d have to renovate your 18-year-old building anyway.) Even allowing » for likely rent increases, it would be a dozen years or
See GANNON, Page A11
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