As city officials took President’s Day Weekend off, so did the
main phone line. Anyone calling City Hall’s main number, 779-7271,
from Friday afternoon to Monday at noon got a message that the
number they had reached had been disconnected.
As city officials took President’s Day Weekend off, so did the main phone line.
Anyone calling City Hall’s main number, 779-7271, from Friday afternoon to Monday at noon got a message that the number they had reached had been disconnected.
Ken De Luna, the city’s building official, said the main number and about nine other internal, unpublished numbers went down late Friday afternoon.
De Luna said the problem stemmed from Verizon’s central office.
“Everything is working fine now,” De Luna said. “We were fortunate in the respect that it happened late Friday and was fixed Monday late morning. It shouldn’t have been a real major inconvenience.”
The weekend’s phone problems came a few weeks after a problem with the entire city’s phone lines after the Development Services Center opened Jan. 5. That phone problem stemmed from bad electronic equipment that caused the faulty programming.
“That caused a real hassle for us the first few days of operation here,” De Luna said.
Neither of these problems cost the city any money.
“It’s all part of what Verizon provides to us, it’s their equipment,” De Luna said.
De Luna said he hadn’t heard of any citizens who were inconvenienced by the weekend’s outage. Had the city’s main phone number not been involved, the public would have been none the wiser, he said.
