The Athens County Board of County Commissioners held a public forum on Tuesday morning to hear from Athens residents about the possibility of moving the Board of Elections office to Campbell Street.

The move was proposed because of the lack of space in the current office located on South Court Street. Another reason the building might move is because there is new equipment for voting that needs to be kept in a temperature-controlled room.

“The county commissioners have known for two years that (Advocacy, Training, Careers, and Training) would be closing its services on Campbell Street, because you own the building,” Roxanne Groff, an Athens resident said. “There was a federal mandate for those services to be closed.”