City hall finally gets a fix for hail damage

The roof of City Hall has been leaking for the last couple of years thanks to damage caused by hail, but the city’s insurance company was not inclined to pay for repairs.

There’s “obvious hail damage on it,” said Public Works Director Mac Erickson last week, but the insurers did not feel it required repairs.

Mayor Paul Brooks elaborated, explaining that the adjustor came out after a hail storm and said the dents in the roof did look like hail damage, but weren’t hurting anything. However, as time went on, the plastic underneath the asphalt membrane began to expand and contract and the roof is now taking on water.

Erickson has been doing his best to keep up with the leaks and said, “I think we’ve got most of them patched up now.”

However, as Brooks pointed out, “the patching is not going to last.”

Finally, said Erickson, the city filed another claim and all the city’s buildings have been checked. A “large check” has been received to start the process of fixing the damage.

The remaining roofs are metal and so the damage is limited to dents. Because of the leaks, said Erickson, city hall will be the “main priority” and work to fix the damage will begin soon.