Tama County board swaps President's Day for MLK day, adopts New Year's Eve early close and moves toward PTO

The Tama County Board of Supervisors approved a revised 2026 holiday schedule that will substitute Martin Luther King Jr. Day for President's Day, convert the floating holiday into a proclamation day and add a New Year's Eve early-close at noon.

A supervisor explained the change was intended to better align county schedules with the courts and reduce conflicts for the county attorney. "So propose switches president's day from MLK to floating holiday..." the board discussed as supervisors clarified the floating holiday would be absorbed into a PTO policy if the county adopts it in February. Jacob asked to confirm that the change would remove a freely available floating day once PTO is implemented; supervisors said employees who already banked a floating holiday would not lose it before June 30, 2026.

Supervisors voted to approve the holiday schedule and the New Year's Eve early-close proposal. They noted that union contracts govern holidays for union employees and that any changes affecting unions must be negotiated through collective bargaining.