KILGORE — The work week might get a day shorter at Kilgore City Hall as soon as the city council contemplates a staff proposal to close City Hall on Fridays. According to KETK, city employees would work four, 10-hour days under the proposal put forward Tuesday by City Manager Scott Sellers. <\/p>\n
\u201cCost savings alone do not justify to moving to a four-day work week,\u201d said Sellers, who estimated energy bill savings of $6,900 by not opening Fridays. \u201cTwo of the four communities I\u2019ve worked for in the past have been on 4\/10s, and I have seen the increase in productivity. I have witnessed that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police, fire and other emergency services could remain on the job around the clock all week under the proposal, which would launch in pilot program form as soon as May 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KILGORE — The work week might get a day shorter at Kilgore City Hall as soon as the city council contemplates a staff proposal to close City Hall on Fridays. According to KETK, city employees would work four, 10-hour days under the proposal put forward Tuesday by City Manager Scott Sellers. \u201cCost savings alone do … Continue reading Possible Four Day Work Week in Kilgore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 23:06:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180800,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180519\/revisions\/180800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}