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county offices behind the bank on Bank Road and the cost to purchase the Arts Building and renovate.
Kramer has agreed to sell the building to the county for ■$975,000. With renovation costs included, the project would total about $1.4 million. A new building near the bank would have cost $1.7 million.
The Arts Building currently houses the building office, emergency services and the agricultural extension offices of the county in addition to Rappahannock Real Estate Resources and Kramer’s cabinet making shop.
But the expected move for the additional county offices is at least a year and a half out, said McCarthy.
In the meantime, Kramer plans to continue making furniture and will move his shop to a building by his house in Flint Hill.
“We’re going to continue on, with some pieces displayed in the county” at other locations, he said.
“I think it’s wonderful that the county seat remains in town and it’s a great use of the building,” said Kramer, a former mayor of the Town of Washington.
Butch Zindel whose real estate office is in the building said he has discussed the move with McCarthy, but as the move is still over a year away, has not yet made plans to move.
“It’s a year and a half away, anything can happen,” said Zindel.
The county had been setting aside money for the project for the last four years, and had already purchased the land on Bank Road, but with state budget cuts almost certain for the next fiscal year, the county founds an alternative when Kramer indicated he would like to sell.
McCarthy said that the county had approached Kramer in the. past, but at that time they could not yet agree as to an equitable price.
McCarthy said the bank asked for an option to buy the land back for what the county paid plus improvements which include a new welL
Annual lease savings by having county offices relocated to the Arts Building would be $68,000 according to McCarthy.
The county had already set aside $1.08 million for the project since FY 2005, so there would be no additional tax dollars needed for the Arts Building renovation and office relocation.
One concern raised was that having the health department located next to other county offices - social services, voter registrar - was that people with health issues would mingle with people coming for other services, not to mention other county employees.
There was also the issue of making the building handi
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