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Commissioners adopt 2025 county holiday calendar, add floating holiday and Christmas Eve half‑day
Summary
Hot Springs County commissioners approved Resolution 2025‑1 setting county holidays for 2025, adding a floating holiday to be used the day after Christmas, establishing a half‑day Christmas Eve and removing Indigenous Peoples Day (Oct. 13) as a fixed holiday.
The Hot Springs County Board of County Commissioners approved Resolution 2025‑1 on Jan. 7 establishing official county holidays for calendar year 2025. The resolution sets 11½ paid holidays by calendar year, including a new floating holiday to be used Dec. 26, 2025 (the Friday after Christmas), and a half‑day off on Dec. 24, 2025 (Christmas Eve).
Key elements of the approved Resolution 2025‑1 include: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 20, 2025); Presidents Day (Feb. 17, 2025); Memorial Day (May 26, 2025); Independence Day (July 4, 2025); Labor Day (Sept. 1, 2025); Veterans Day (Nov. 11, 2025); Thanksgiving and the day after (Nov. 27–28, 2025); a half‑day on Dec. 24, 2025; Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2025); a floating holiday designated for Dec. 26, 2025; and New Year’s Day (Jan. 1, 2026). The resolution cancels Indigenous Peoples Day (Oct. 13) as a designated county holiday and replaces it with the floating holiday to be determined each year at the start of the calendar.
Discussion: County employees and members of the public spoke during the meeting in favor of offering the Friday after Christmas as an additional holiday to improve employee morale and to match practices in other Wyoming counties. One public commenter, Ralph Yeager, said he opposed a floating holiday that employees would individually select; county staff and commissioners clarified the calendar language and explained the floating holiday would be selected by commissioners at the start of the year, not left to individual employee choice.
Cost and context: A comment in the public record referenced an estimate that granting the extra holiday could cost the county roughly $10,000; the estimate was discussed but no new budget appropriation was made at the meeting. Commissioners discussed the county’s standing among Wyoming counties—some counties offer more paid holidays, others fewer—and framed the change as keeping county practice near the statewide average.
Vote: After public comment and discussion, the board moved to adopt Resolution 2025‑1 by voice vote; the motion carried with commissioners voting “aye.” Commissioners signed the resolution after the meeting to finalize the action.
Ending: County staff will record the holiday schedule in personnel materials and post the updated holiday calendar for employees.
