Oakland Public Library Reopens Jan 2 After 9-Day Shutdown

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Link to December 28 Oakland Blog post, "City of Oakland closed all week".

Excerpt: If you had any business to take care of with the City of Oakland this week, you're out of luck.

One of the steps taken to close an $80 million budget deficit this summer was the scheduling of eleven city shutdown days, where services would be suspended and city staff would not work, in order to save the City money. A number of those shutdown days fall during the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's.

Administrative offices will all be closed, so parking tickets, building permits, and other pressing matters with City Hall will have to wait until January 4th. If you were hoping to pick up a book or movie at the Oakland Public Library to entertain you during the holidays, you're out of luck. The system shut down last Thursday, and won't reopen until Saturday, January 2nd.