Chelsea Self / Post Independent
The Garfield County Clerk and Recorder’s Office managed to make it all the way from the initial appearance of COVID-19 in the county last March until just before Thanksgiving before recording its first coronavirus shutdown.
No small feat, said Clerk and Recorder Jean Alberico, given hers is one of the higher-traffic offices in Garfield County government alongside the Department of Human Services, which saw even higher customer volumes than usual last year due to the economic impacts of the pandemic.
After a COVID-19 case was traced to the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Rifle, Alberico said she closed that office for two weeks in late November and early December.