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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">November 20, 2023</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Sydney Olsen
<br />Engagement and Public Communications Manager
<br />City Manager's Office
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.7438
<br />Sydney.Olsen@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">City offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 23 - 24</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - City of Columbia offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 23, and Friday, Nov. 24, in observance of Thanksgiving Day as well as the day after Thanksgiving, Native American Heritage Day. Offices will reopen Monday, Nov. 27.<br /><br />All Solid Waste services (landfill and all collections) will not operate on Thanksgiving Day. Solid Waste will resume normal operations Friday, Nov. 24. Thursday and Friday curbside routes will be delayed by one day following the holiday. Thursday customers will be collected on Friday, and Friday customers will be collected on Saturday. Residents can download the CoMo Recycle and Trash app for collection-day reminders and service notifications. Questions concerning the collection schedule should be directed to the Contact Center at 573.874.CITY (2489).<br /><br />Go COMO, Columbia's public transit system, will not operate Thursday or Friday and parking meter regulations w
ill not be enforced on the observed City holidays. Transit service and parking meter enforcement will resume Saturday, Nov. 25. <br /><br />Parks and Recreation's Activity & Recreation Center (ARC) will close at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22. The ARC will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day and will reopen the day after Thanksgiving for normal operating hours of 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.<br /><br />Although administrative offices for both the Police and Fire departments will be closed Thursday and Friday, all other emergency services will be available.<br /><br />Please visit <a style="white-space:nowrap" href="https://www.como.gov/Utilities/">CoMo.gov/Utilities</a> for phone numbers to contact staff regarding emergencies related to Water, Electric, Sewer and Stormwater.</div>
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