{"id":10981,"date":"2019-11-15T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:23:54","slug":"city-hall-closes-for-two-days-as-staff-migrate-to-new-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10981","title":{"rendered":"City Hall Closes for Two Days as Staff Migrate to New Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The recent two-day shutdown was to allow the staff to move into the new city hall built along Ocean Boulevard. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anyone going to Los Fresnos this past weekend might have run into a surprise.<\/p>\n

Two flyers posted on the doors of the town administrative building at 200 N. Brazil St. said that the City of Los Fresnos was to be closed Friday, Nov. 8 and Monday Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

But in reality, it wasn\u2019t that the city was shut down entirely.<\/p>\n

It was only City Hall, the building that houses the municipal government and those who work there.<\/p>\n

The reason for the two-day shutdown was to allow the staff to move into the new city hall built along Ocean Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The city council had approved the move during an early meeting as it\u2019s a normal procedure for all government-related matters.<\/p>\n

The new building, constructed at cost of $3.2 million, will become the city\u2019s pride as it\u2019s the first major project that will take Los Fresnos into another era.<\/p>\n

Built by D. Wilson Construction of McAllen, the 11,500-square foot building is twice the size of the old city hall that will be taken over by the police department once it\u2019s vacant and remodeled.<\/p>\n

Mayor Polo Narvaez described the new city hall as fantastic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new building is going to have a lot more space for people to conduct city business,\u201d he said. \u201cThey won\u2019t have to wait outside to see the municipal judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Narvaez said the existing building did not have enough room to accommodate people waiting to settle court and fine issues.<\/p>\n

He also said LFPD will take over the entire old building and a plan is to move the department by the new facility once funds become available.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working on this new city hall project for quite some time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe looked at some existing buildings but it was too costly to fix them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said they waited for something to meet their needs until the right time came up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new facility is really nice,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are now planning a ribbon cutting sometime in the middle of December.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Anyone going to Los Fresnos this past weekend might have run into a surprise. Two flyers posted on the doors of the town administrative building at 200 N. Brazil St. said that the City of Los Fresnos was to be closed Friday, Nov. 8 and Monday Nov. 11. But in reality, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}