DANVILLE — District Judge Marvin Shrawder’s office likely won’t move into the Montour County Courthouse until June, after extra security revisions are completed.
Most of the renovation work at the courthouse is finished, except for the additions to Shrawder’s office, which the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) requires before the office can open, county Commissioner Trevor Finn said.
The office move into the former commissioners offices on the first floor is the final one in the $4 million county building renovation and realignment project.
The project included the $750,000 purchase of the former Danville Elementary School on East Front Street two years ago for use as the county administration center. The commissioners office and several other county offices moved there during the last week of December. Other than Shrawder’s office, only the county detective’s office has to move to the courthouse.
“The AOPC is requiring certain things be done for Marv’s staff — a wall, bulletproof window, things of that nature,” Finn said. “AOPC is paying for all that. We already got the grant through the 26th Judicial District.”
The state awarded the judicial district, which includes Columbia and Montour counties, a grant of up to $12,000 to use for the security measures.
“The AOPC extended the…
