For most Federal agencies within the Kansas City area, weather-related dismissal or closure decisions are made and disseminated by the Federal Executive Board. When a severe weather event takes place, the FEB informs local radio and news media of the reporting conditions which apply to federal employees. Federal agencies are open and employees are expected to report to work on time. Federal agencies are operating under a delayed arrival policy and reasonable delays in reporting to work will be excused. Federal agencies are operating under a liberal leave policy which will allow employees to take leave without prior approval.
Federal agencies are closed.
CASC supervisors will also initiate an emergency notification procedure under which an attempt will be made to contact all employees to inform them of what reporting action to take. Employees on duty at the time of the announcement of dismissal, including those who were scheduled to take leave later in the day, will be excused from work without charge to leave for the remainder of the day. Employees who elect to leave the work site prior to the formal time set by management for dismissal may be granted leave from time of departure to the time that dismissal is authorized and granted an excused absence from the time of dismissal to the end of the workday. This has never happened in Kansas City because the FEB does not set a time prior to dismissal. Employees on previously approved leave when an early closing is announced will continue on approved leave for the remainder of the workday.