Cassia County offices are housed in three different building, but the county broke ground on Oct. 1, 2025, on a new 30,000-sq.-ft. building in Burley, Idaho, that will collectively house all the county's services, kmtv.com reported.
"They'll go to the treasurer's department, and they may have a question," County Commissioner Leonard Beck said. "Well, that question would then send them to the assessor's office. Well, then they may have to go to the auditor's office. And so now they've made three trips where, here, they can do it in one building."
The building, which will fit between the courthouse and the judicial annex, will house the auditors' department, the treasurer's department, the assessor's department, the elections department and information technology, kivitv.com reported.
Cassia County has named Gary Jones Construction as the project manager, according to kmtv.com
"It means a lot," said Jason Jones, president of Gary Jones Construction. "I'm a fifth-generation resident of Cassia County. My family has roots here, grew up here. And there's not many projects like this that come around. They're not very common to have a large government building built in Burley, Idaho.
The project has been planned for the past years. The estimated cost is approximately $13.5 million but won't use any taxpayer money, according to kivitv.com.
"We encourage our department heads to be frugal with their expenses, which they have been," Beck said. "And we've been able to earmark any revenues of those types of funds into a building fund. And favorable interest rates have helped us to accumulate to the extent that we are now."
Construction is expected to begin in October 2025 with the demolition of two buildings and the removal of trees on site. Project completion is expected in 2027, kmtv.com reported.
This is just another new building being constructed as Cassia County continues to expand.
"As we continue to grow, which we're going to do, the projections are quite heavily that the growth of Cassia County will increase substantially," Beck said. "And as such, we want to be prepared for that growth."
