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Derrick Moon, a long-time Washington County Department of Land Use & Transportation (LUT) employee, has been named as the county’s building official, effective Dec. 9. Derek replaces Scott Linfesty, who retired as building official in August. Derek has been serving as the interim building official since then, but joined LUT in 2007 as a building inspector. His experience includes working on plan review, building inspections, code enforcement, planning and a brief assignment with Health and Human Services. For the last five years, Moon has been the Building Services supervisor for the Plan Review Team.