13 April, 2017
Due to flooding at Hopkinton Town Hall caused by a broken water pipe on Tuesday April 11th, Town Hall will temporarily be closed down and town offices will be at temporary remote locations. View the announcement and location for town offices below.
"The water damage at Hopkinton's Townhall caused by a failed water pipe valve on the third floor is substantial. At this time, we have been advised that the Town Hall building will remain closed for at least two and one half months. The Town is relocating town hall based offices to separate town facilities to be able to serve the public as early as this Thursday (4/13) afternoon.
-The Town Clerk’s office is now located at the Police Station lobby, 74 Main Street
- Human Resources is at Hopkinton Public Schools Administration Building, 89 Hayden Rowe.
- Land Use, Permitting, Board of Health and Town Manager departments are at Hopkinton Fire Station, 73 Main Street.
- Youth and Family Services, Finance, Accounting and Treasurer-Collector offices are at Hopkinton Senior Center, 28 Mayhew Street.
The Town’s investments in technology and facilities over the past years will allow the Town departments to set up offices at the temporary locations with minimal interruption of service and to use the same phone numbers. Postal mailing and email addresses will not change. Last night the Board of Selectmen designated John Coutinho as its liaison to the Town Hall Repair and Relocation project. John is uniquely qualified for this role. He has 35 years’ experience as an engineer and is a licensed construction supervisor. He is currently Facilities Director at Golden Pond where he restored that facility from a similar event a few months ago. “Town Hall is closed right now to allow the remediation and repair teams to do their work and town staff to set up their offices in the new locations. We are doing our best to ensure that town offices are up and running by this afternoon,” said Mr. Coutinho. We will continue to post updates to Hopkintonma.gov twitter.com/hopkintonma and Facebook.com/hopkintonma.gov Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to be back up and running to serve the residents of Hopkinton."
