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Councilors discuss moving to a four-day municipal schedule; staff engagement and customer access flagged as concerns
Summary
Council members discussed a possible shift to a four-day municipal workweek for city hall staff, with questions raised about customer access, department impacts, and the clerk's current Friday half-day schedule.
Council members discussed proposals to change municipal business hours and move to a four-day schedule for city staff, noting trade-offs for customers and different departments.
The clerk's office currently closes Friday afternoons (the transcript said a 12:30 p.m. Friday close), and staff and councilors said the schedule change was negotiated in part with a union and was slated for re-evaluation in June. Speakers raised concerns about public access (boat registrations, wedding services, building inspections) and the effects on customers and businesses. Council members proposed alternatives including a Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–6 p.m. schedule and asked staff to hold a listening session with affected stakeholders, including the chamber of commerce and businesses that rely on Friday services.
One councilor framed the current arrangement as a partial reduction in access: the Friday half-day reduces public hours on that day while adding early-morning and evening hours on other weekdays. Staff and councilors said implementation details and the impact on departments such as code enforcement (inspection schedules) would need workshop-level discussion. Council directed staff to include the schedule and stakeholder feedback in a workshop discussion about meeting structure and operational hours; no formal policy change was adopted at the meeting.
