St. Louis County will shutter offices on Fridays for in-person services 18%
By Jason Rosenbaum0%
3/24/2026, 11:04:10 PM
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Louis County is shutting down access to its offices on Fridays.
St.
Louis County Executive Sam Page told reporters on Tuesday that because of extensive backlogs and a lack of staffing, the county will no longer offer in-person service on Friday from agencies such as the Department of Revenue.
He also said that the county is canceling its JB Blast event, a popular shindig held in south St.
Louis County around the Fourth of July.
“It's been a comedy of errors to watch the county budget policy process, but there's nothing funny about the lack of understanding of how this impacts county finances, or the negative impact on the residents,” Page said.
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Louis County Council Chairwoman Rita Days, D-Bel Nor, said Page’s move won’t actually save the county any money since staffers will still be working even if they’re not serving the public directly.
“All these things that he has done is to disenfranchise our constituents,” Days said.
Page said the county council could use money from the St.
Louis Rams settlement or several other sources to fund more positions for the Department of Revenue.
Instead, Page said council members are needlessly waiting until July to potentially hire more staffers.
“Once they make that decision, it's still a couple of months before we can hire people.
It doesn't happen the next day,” Page said.
“There's not an ATM for trained staff.
We have to go through a process to hire people.”
The council ended up closing a budgetary gap last year by eliminating a number of unfilled positions.
Page told reporters that Department of Revenue staff in particular has been bogged down by trying to find documents for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and for a St.
Louis County property tax freeze.
Page said canceling the JB Blast fireworks event will save the county about $50,000.
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