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Kendall County celebrates completion of $9.9 million renovation of government building · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kennell County celebrates completion of nine to nine million dollar
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  renovation of government building. Written by Eric Schlkoff, This article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. Kendall County officials on Tuesday celebrated the completion
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  of a nine to nine million dollar renovation of the
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  Kendall County Office building in downtown Yorkville. The newly renovated
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  building also has a new address, five O fours Main Saints.
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  The building's previous address was one to eleven W. Fox.
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  I'd like to be the first one to officially welcome
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  you to five O Four's Mainz. Kendall County Board Chairman
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  Matt Kellogg said to those gathered in the Kendall County
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  boardroom following a ribbon cutting ceremony. I've seen the progress
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  over the last year. We moved out a year ago
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  and now we're moving back in. The building houses the
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  Kendall County Board as well as the Treasurer's Office, Assessor's Office,
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  Administration Office, Finance Office, Human Resources Office, Geographic Information Systems Office,
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  and the Planning, Building and Zoning Office. The building will
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  continue to serve as the primary location for Kendall County
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  Board meetings. Offices are set to reopen on February seventeenth.
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  To accommodate the work, offices were temporarily relocated to the
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  Kendall County Courthouse on John Street. This building was built
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  fifty five years ago, give or take. Kellogg said, it
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  served its purpose, but it was time. Hopefully this will
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  take us to the next fifty five years. Improvements include
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  additional offices and meeting rooms, ada accessibility upgrades, improved public navigation,
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  and enhanced employee safety features. That was a lot to
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  do in one year, said Brian de Bolt, chairman of
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  the Board's Facilities and Technology Committee. Under the leadership of
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  Matt Kellogg and the Board, along with Kendall County Administrator
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  Christina Burns and staff, we did it. It's a WEI thing,
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  It's not an I thing. At nine to nine million dollars,
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  the improvements were completed slightly under the ten million dollar
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  budget for the project. The improvements were paid for from
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  the county's fiscal twenty twenty four Building Fund, with the
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  remainder budgeted in the fiscal twenty twenty five Building Fund.
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  It was a very successful project, but it took a
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  lot of people, all in sequence to make it work.
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  To Bolt said, he is happy that the decision was
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  made to make improvements to the building rather than raise it.
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  I like to take a building and bring it back
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  to life if it's possible and if it's economically feasible,
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  in order to save money for the taxpayers, to Bolt said,
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  and I think we accomplished that task. The project comes
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  on the back of the construction of a new nine
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  point four million dollar building for the Kendall County Clerk,
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  Recorder and Election offices. That building, located at five oh
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  two s Main Saint next to the Kendall County Office Building,
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  opened in the summer of twenty two. The project was
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  funded through the Federal American Rescue Plan Act. County officials
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  also are looking at building a new facility for Kendall
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  County Animal Control, as well making improvements to the Rechard
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  of Randall Public Safety Center and to the Kendall County Courthouse,
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  including adding two new courtrooms.