Following a $9 million renovation project, Gov. Deval Patrick has moved back into his corner office on the third floor of the State House.
The renovations included an updated lobby that will allow visitors to access the balcony that looks out onto Boston Common, Beacon Street and the city’s skyline, State House News Service reported. The HVAC system and wiring were upgraded and new energy-efficient windows and security cameras were installed.
Since the project began in January, Patrick had worked in a temporary executive suite on the second floor in the building’s west wing.
According to his public schedule, Patrick today will chair the meeting of the Governor’s Council, which reviews judicial nominees. Patrick will use the upgraded executive suite to swear in Karen Charles as commissioner of the Department of Telecommunications and Cable and Charlotte Golar Richie, a former aide and Boston mayoral candidate, as a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
With the governor’s office project complete, the Senate and House chambers could be next in line for makeovers.
A bond bill lawmakers sent to Patrick’s desk on Wednesday authorizes $20 million in improvements in both the House and Senate chambers. It’s typically up to governors to decide which capital projects to move ahead with, choosing from a long list of authorizations, State House News Service reports. The House and Senate this session delivered on all of Patrick’s more than $20 billion in bond bill requests, sending him revamped versions of transportation, housing, military, environmental, technology projects bills.





