NORWICH – Chenango County Department of Social Services Commissioner Bette Osborne said she must wait for a certificate of occupancy before moving her staff across the street to the new West Park Place office buildings.

State health department officials are scheduled to make a walk through next week.

Completion of the $2.3 million building renovation project has already been delayed two months. A recent setback involving emergency egress could now further delay move-in to the second week in December. Two exterior doors in the former Sheriff’s Office and Chenango County Jail were swinging in the wrong direction and other doors weren’t up to code, Osborne said.