16 • The Beacon September 8 , 2022
Commissioners are working on several projects
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“ We want to make Coshocton the best community we can to attract people to come here .”
By Jen Jones
The Coshocton County commissioners have been working on several projects to benefit the county . Updates include new buildings , renovating other buildings and adding broadband to as much of the county as possible .
Mary Beck , county administrator and project manager , said in the 33 years she has worked for the county , this is the most projects she has ever seen happening at once . “ We are all so excited . This is the most grant money I ’ ve seen coming into the county .”
Beck said ground has been broken for a new EMS building on the former Central Elementary School lot . “ They are moving dirt and have the fence up ,” she said . “ The project is moving
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— county administrator and project manager Mary Beck
along quickly , and we plan to be in the building in October 2023 . This is a $ 4.35 million project , and we received almost half of that in grants .”
The former Hopewell Industries building on the corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets is being renovated for the new Coshocton Public Health location .
“ The county and city health departments are going to combine ,” Beck said . “ After COVID we realized the location of the county health office in the county services building wasn ’ t working anymore . We needed room for COVID clinics , and this building worked well .
“ This building will also have a new county morgue . We ’ ve never had a morgue for the county . The hospital morgue is obsolete , and coroners have been doctors working from their own offices . The building will have the coroner ’ s office and morgue .”
Beck said the cost of the renovation is $ 1.8 million . They are planning to be in the building by early November .
Beck said the commissioners also had a company look over every tree on the court square . “ We had some storm damage and some trees that were partially dead ,” she said . “ They needed to be taken care of before another bad storm .”
The dead trees were removed , and all of the trees were trimmed . There is still one tree that needs to be taken care of . “ There is one really large tree that is leaning toward the courthouse . Sometime in the near future , we ’ ll need to find someone to take that one down too ,” Beck said .
Works continues on Skip ’ s Landing .
“ The light poles are installed , and we are working on the electric now ,” Beck said . “ We are also working on the boat ramp more . We found
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