While Effingham County’s commissioners will go forward with their plans for a 4-10 work week, it doesn’t appear that will be the case for the courthouse or its offices.

Commissioners are going to go ahead with a pilot project to begin in July and run through October at other county offices.

“We believe it is probably not best to close the courthouse one day a week,” County Administrator David Crawley said.

Crawley said state law — and provisions in it that appear to be at odds with one another — led county officials to drop plans to have the Effingham Judicial Complex also follow the four-day, 10-hour work week plan.

“It is amazing how conflicting the language is,” he said. “It has created quite a bit of concern.”

Not closing the courthouse on Fridays also denies the county of what was seen as the biggest potential cost savings in adopting the 4-10 work week. Those projected savings, around $360,000, were reflected in the budget the commissioners adopted last week.

“The biggest savings was going to be at the courthouse,” Commissioner Jeff Utley said.

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office already has begun its 4-10 work week.

The laws on which offices are to be open and on what days has led to confusion, Crawley said. Crawley added many constitutional officers will back a proposal to allow the county to adjust the work week through an act of legislation.

“I found the whole process to be frustrating and difficult to deal with,” Crawley said. “We invested a lot of time and a lot of effort to get, in my opinion, absolutely nowhere.”

County commissioners also approved, by a 5-1 vote, a change in their meeting times, beginning in August. The commissioners’ regular meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays. Currently, those meetings are held at 8:30 a.m. on the first Tuesday of the month and 3 p.m. on the third Tuesday.