Oconee County Library Moving To Site Of Administrative Building

The Oconee County Library on Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville will expand and become a part of the county Administrative Building planned for the 7.63-acre tract the county has purchased just outside the northern boundary of Watkinsville on U.S. 441.

The county made the announcement of the move Tuesday evening following a vote by the Oconee County Library Board of Trustees to approve of the move on July 8.

The library will be part of a county Administrative Building currently estimated to be about 65,000 square feet in size.

That Administrative Building also will house the non-judicial government functions currently located in the Courthouse on Main Street in downtown Watkinsville and in the Government Annex on Greensboro Highway on the southeast of Watkinsville.

The county has not yet developed a time line for construction of the Administrative Building or the shift of the current library to that location.

It also has not developed plans for future use of the existing library, which sits between the Watkinsville Post Office and the Oconee County Health Department. The county owns all three of those tracts, as well as the adjoining land on which the Sheriff’s Office and County Jail are located.

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