Jamews City County will break ground on its $204 million government center and library annex Wednesday, Nov. 12, the county announced today.
“We’re moving along,” Assistant County Administrator Bradley Rinehimer told the last board of supervisors meeting Oct. 28. “As builders have said to me, get ready because we’re going to be moving fast.”
Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony starts at 10 a.m. at 5231 Longhill Rd., site of the new facility.
When angry county residents turned up at a board meeting last month asking work on the government center stop until after the elections, the supervisors voted to proceed with the work, saying it could always be stopped if a new board decided against it.
Two Republican candidates for board seats, Tracy L. Wainwright and John Slokovitz, said they did not favor continuing work on the government center. But Slokovitz lost his race to incumbent Jim Icenhour in the Jamestown district.
Icenhour, vice chair John McGlennon of the Roberts district and Berkeley r…