Reduced hours at City Hall

For the intermediate term, Roland City Hall is going to be running on reduced hours. In case you haven't heard, our City Clerk, Deneen Frost, has been in the hospital quite a bit this year. She is suffering from Multiple Myeloma (click on that to get the Wikipedia description). In short, it is a type of bone cancer.

Deneen has been fighting this for many years, with various levels of good health, but it has reared its head again. So hopefully Deneen can get out of the hospital soon, and back home for some recoup time.

So we are keeping City Hall open with our Billing Clerk Janet Olson, but she is hired for part-time, so when she is here, that is when City Hall will be open.

So the city council had to decide if we want to spend a bunch more money to keep City Hall open for 40 hours a week. In the interim, we have decided not to. We have acquired the services of the Kelley City Clerk, to help us with some of the financial requirements of the city. She is part-time in Kelley, knows the requirements that cities have, so she will be working various hours to take care of that stuff. But she is not tasked with being here just to keep City Hall open. High end, it is to file the appropriate paperwork with the state and pay our bills.

So if you need to stop in or call City Hall, the hours are:
Mondays 8-4 closed at the lunch hour
Tuesdays: 8-Noon
Wednesdays: 1-5
Thursday 8-4 closed at the lunch hour
Friday 8-Noon

Also if you have some sort of emergency regarding the city, the phone numbers of our two other full time employees are posted on a note on the front door of City Hall.

So there are still opporutnities to come in in the morning and afternoons, if you need to take care of any city business. And of course, we still have our drop box for paying water bills, or dropping off any other things you need to deliver.

So thanks in advance for your consideration in the reduced services of the city. When you have few city employees, it sure is a big hit on the operation of the city when you lose a key employee. Hopefully we will be back to normal operation soon.