(BENTON, IL) — The Franklin County Board is moving ahead with plans to move county offices out of the deteriorating County Annex Building and into the county-owned Campbell Building on the Benton Square sometime next spring. County Board Chairman Randall Crocker tells us board members passed a design/build concept resolution at a special meeting Monday that will allow the county to seek proposals from contractors for renovating the Campbell Building. Crocker hopes to have the request for proposals ready by the end of this week and have it published in the local paper for three weeks. Crocker added that at the end of the time frame, contractors will have two more weeks to turn in their proposals. The county board will then meet with each contractor with hopes of making a final decision on who will do the work within five to six weeks. Crocker says a price tag for the project won’t be known until a contractor is chosen. As for a move in date for county offices, Crocker says he doesn’t want to disrupt the April election, so he hopes to move county offices into the Campbell Building sometime after the election. Crocker says a decision regarding the annex building’s future wasn’t made at Monday’s meeting, but the county’s goal will be to have it demolished whether it is sold to somebody who can do that or if that doesn’t work; the county will tear it down.