FARMINGTON — The switch to a four-day workweek for municipal employees is going well, Town Manager Erica LaCroix told selectmen at their Feb. 25 meeting.

Selectmen approved the shorter workweek last December. It took effect in January.

“There has been little pushback to being closed Fridays, although there is the occasional person who shows up not realizing that we’re not open,” LaCroix said.

The busiest time appears to be early morning, not the later afternoon, she said.

“We’ll continue to monitor the trend for a couple of months to establish if it’s a matter of people not knowing we’re open later, or if there’s just not a demand,” she said. “The quiet time in the late afternoon is allowing staff to get task work done that otherwise is difficult to fit in, but it may be that we shift the opening time to 7 a.m. and move closing time back to 5 p.m. if we see the current trend continue.”

In other business

LaCroix said $2,000 for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial traveling wall and $10,000 for a security camera could be taken from the Downtown tax increment financing account. Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments dues of $9,225.90 could be taken from the Franklin Printing TIF, she said.

The board unanimously voted to use those accounts.

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