The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners took a small, but important, step this week in the process of building the new county administrative annex on North Main Street. The board voted unanimously during its regular meeting Tuesday morning to approve selecting Statesboro-based Lavender & Associates as the building project's construction manager at-risk. Lavender & Associates submitted the lowest bid, $90,500 for total maximum overhead cost, and had the strongest proposal among competing firms.