People urged to avoid flood-damaged tax collector’s office in Martinez
"It's really starting to get crowded in there, but it's really just a temporary inconvenience," said Brice Bins,
Compounding the interest in getting things fixed, though, is the flood's timing. The office is in the midst of receiving the first installments of property owners' fiscal year 2017-18 property taxes (the deadline is
"Our cashier and treasury divisions have both been displaced, and the fewer people waiting in line there, the better," Bins said.
The treasurer-tax collector's "treasury" area (with its large bank vault) took the brunt of the damage; all the staff computers, scanners, calculators and other electronics in the cashiers' area, along with the carpeting and office furniture, were a total loss. Some ceilings and walls were soaked, too, and have to be replaced, said
The large stainless steel bank-vault door, as large as any bank's, "was covered in rust" after just hours exposed to water, Bins said.
It could be sometime in January before the treasurer-tax collector's vault area is fixed, said
A custodian arriving at the
"It was 50 years old, at least," Parker said. "There was basically no access to the walls. Once we walked through the flood, we discovered the water coming from the walls." Yee said it took a half-hour to turn the building's water off that morning, and it isn't clear how long water had been streaming out of the failed pipe.
Damages will probably run between
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