BELLEFONTE — Some of the future occupants of the Temple Court building will be waiting a little longer to settle into their new offices.
The Centre County Commissioners on Aug. 1 said a consultant will be hired to study the space on the first and second floors to reconfigure the accommodations for not only the probation department, but the expected staff that will take up duties with the county’s new drug court.
The third and fourth floors, belonging to the district attorney’s office, are still on schedule to be occupied by the end of January. The first DA to take residence in the new building will almost certainly be Bernie Cantorna, who in May won the Democratic and Republican primaries in his challenge to current DA Stacy Parks Miller.
Commissioner Michael Pipe said the furniture has already been ordered and will arrive in coming months, and the plan is to have the office totally move-in ready by the end of January.
In other news, the commissioners declared the month of August as Child Support Enforcement Awareness Month in Centre County, which has one of the highest rates of child support payments in the state.
Ann Marie Oldani, director of the county’s domestic relations office, said 89 percent of the office’s clients in Centre County pay their child support on time as of June, putting them third in the state. She said the state is ranked top in the nation for ensuring child support is paid.
To celebrate the declaration, Oldani said the domestic relations office will have a free picnic on the lawn of the Willowbank building from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8.
