Hooksett Town Hall has a new home at 35 Main St., site of the former Hooksett Village School.

About 15 employees moved into the building over Memorial Day weekend, including departments involving the town clerk, tax collector, building, assessing, finance, administration and family services.

“I love it,” said bookkeeper Mary Liskowsky of her new digs yesterday. “It’s bright, it’s sunny, there’s no mold. It’s fantastic!”

About half of the town employees at the old town hall worked in the windowless upstairs. Now, most of them are basking in offices with wall-to- wall windows with sunlight streaming in.

“I had no natural light for the last five years,” Liskowsky said, beaming as she looked outside. “I’m totally happy and very grateful.”

The building is about 20,000 square feet, including a gym. The town is now using less than 80 percent of the space, said Town Administrator David Jodoin.

Employees who were working back-to-back and surrounded by cardboard boxes in the former town offices are now surrounded by empty space. Planning Coordinator Donna Fitzpatrick said she’s grateful that her files are all together, because before she was at town hall while her files were at the village school.

“Now customers can get what they need, copy it and off they go,” she said.

Jodoin said by the time he pays all the bills for the renovations, the project cost will likely exceed the $500,000 authorized by the voters two years ago. Key renovations include new windows, making bathrooms handicapped accessible, a new fire alarm system, paint, laying cable and working on the heating system.

Jodoin himself hung new wallboard on the first floor to replace material ruined when a pipe burst in the building two years ago and left 3 feet of standing water.

Local businesses made donations to the project and volunteers helped with much of the work, including electrical, framing and wallboard.

Jodoin said he’s hoping there’s enough money left over in the budget to install air conditioning in the building.