Los Angeles City Hall looked less like the nerve center of America’s second-largest city Friday — and more like an abandoned office complex after a zombie apocalypse.
Entire hallways with deserted offices. Corridors eerily silent. Parking garage empty besides the city hall guards.
When the California Post visited City Hall Friday, the Office of Finance, a council liaison office, and the Los Angeles Housing Department were closed for business.
Over the course of the day, about 50 Angelenos oblivious to the closure turned up to pay their bills or seek financial advice, only to find no staff to help them.
City Hall staff said this was a scene repeated every Friday.
Among those left frustrated was small business owner, Kyla Wilkenfeld-Bronson.
She had burned her only day off to drive to City Hall from near LAX where she lives and fed a pricey parking meter with the aim of settling her $4,000 tax bill — but was instead greeted by closed doors.
Ms Wilkenfeld-Bronson said she even checked the website before leaving, and didn’t see any notice of the Office of finance would be closed or any hint that City Hall would be a ghost town.
“This is crazy,” she told The Post. “I had no idea their office would be closed. It doesn’t make sense. I drove all the way down here.”
Now, with a late-February deadline closing in, she’ll have to ditch work again — risking the paycheck she relies on at her day job as she tries to build her independent sign-language business — just to pay the bill.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
