Nashville Town Hall will be closed to the public until further notice starting today, May 24 in response to COVID-19.
“In order to keep our staff and customers healthy and safe, our office is temporarily closed to the public,” a press release from town hall said on Monday.
“We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.”
The decision to close Town Hall was done in order to “keep our staff and customers healthy and safe,” Town Manager Sandie Jones said today.
“There has been an uptick in COVID cases as well as other illness in the last week or so in our community. We thought we would try to keep everyone as well as possible,” she said.
Customers of town utilities can make water and sewer payments in the drop box to the right of the front door or by mailing them to Nashville Municipal Utilities, P.O. Box 446, Nashville, Indiana 47448.
Those with questions or concerns about their account can call the utility building at 812-988-7064 or town administration at 812-988-5526.
Customers can also email [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions.
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, Brown County has had an increase in positive cases recently. From May 1 to 22, an additional 27 positive cases had been reported.
This is an increase compared to March 31 to April 28 when six positive cases were confirmed in nearly a month.
Residents who are now partially vaccinated against COVID-19 also continues to increase. From May 1 to 22, an additional 49 residents received their first dose of the vaccine.
As of May 24, Brown County has had 2,620 positive COVID-19 cases reported since March 2020. The county’s reported COVID-19 deaths has remained at 61 since March 6.
At the May 19 meeting of the Brown County School Board of Trustees meeting, Superintendent Emily Tracy also reported an uptick in positive cases in the school district.
Since May 4 the district had a total of nine students test positive for COVID-19 and six staff members.
Under the school district’s educational service delivery plan, a school will be closed when 16% or more of the building population is reporting symptoms of COVID-19.
As of May 22, every school building had less than 2% of its population reporting COVID-19 symptoms. Find the district’s COVID-19 daily metric report here.
The last day of school is today, May 24. Students will not return to school until Aug. 10.
