Members of the "interior design subcommittee" of the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners conducted another "walk-through" of the new Government Center late last week and determined there should be "no rush" in decorating the walls inside the new facility.

Subcommittee chair and District No. 4 commissioner Mary Tonneberger said the process of deciding what to put up on the walls in the three-level, 68,000-square-foot building could take up to two years.

The subcommittee’s Feb. 21 meeting occurred the day before “wayfinding signs” were installed on walls inside the new building. The signs indicate the location of various offices within the building. Each sign also contains the same map outline of Leelanau County that appears on a sign at the entrance to the new county campus on Government Center Drive off M-204 in Suttons Bay Township.

Tonneberger said that “phase one” of the subcommittee’s wall decor efforts will focus on the identification of historic and contemporary photos of Leelanau County depicting its major industries through time: agriculture, lumbering, fishing, maritime transport and tourism. The committee may also recommend the installation of a large, aerial photograph of Leelanau County inside the county commissioner’s meeting room, Tonneberger said.

She added that a front corridor in the building might feature a “rotating exhibit” of artwork created by local schoolchildren and artists. Artwork for the upper, courtroom level of the Government Center would represent the final phase of the subcommittee’s efforts, Tonneberger said. She said the subcommittee planned to meet again sometime in late March.