The Adair County Courthouse is already starting to take shape from its renovation with contractors hard at work to meet the deadline.

However, while testing for asbestos, the county received a positive test which could provide a challenge for contractors.

"We took 16 samples and sent them off, only two of them came back positive," said Adair County Presiding Commissioner Mark Shahan. "So they're all isolated to two courtrooms, divisions two and three, which are both downstairs on the first level and it's in the form of a floor tile. So it's not anything that can't be handled, they're putting together a plan now, it's not going to set us back any."

While asbestos can be potentially harmful, the county has already started the planning process to remove it from the building.

"Right now first of all the sampling, then our contractors are working with a licensed company that can come in and remove that safely," Shahan said. "So I'm not exactly sure what'll happen, but it will be isolated, there will be no other work going on when that is removed. But it'll be handled according to plan."

Despite the asbestos, county officials say there shouldn't be any danger to the workers.

"Right now it's still covered up, it's under the carpet, so we just sampled the corner," Shahan said. "As long as you don't disturb this floor tile it's not a risk, but when you start taking it up and bagging it up is a risk. So at that point, there will be no other work going on in that area, the room will be isolated and it will be handled by trained professionals to remove that safely."

The extra work won't set the project back at all, with the expected date of completion being late into the fall.