 I just want you people to know it's not my fault when the clerk's office comes up in the ground. All you can do is what you have to work with." That was Pike County Clerk Rhonda Taylor in January. The day the Pike Fiscal Court voted to not give Taylor's office a budget supplement it had traditionally received. Today, Taylor announced that the budget problems had hit her office. She said the three satellite offices of the Pike County Clerk's Office in Elkhorn City, Phelps and Belfrey will cease full-time operation at the end of the month and will then only be open one day per week. Taylor also said 10 of her employees or 40% of her entire staff will be laid off in an attempt to keep the office above water. We won't be open Saturday anymore in the branch offices. Now the main office will continue to stay with their regular hours just like they are now will be open on Saturday also. It won't change. I'm hoping this will just be a temporary thing but I don't know how long it'll take. But as soon as I can restore services back to the people on a full-time basis, I will. Taylor said her office is sharing the same difficulties as many offices in Pike County. She said after she found out in January that she would no longer get a supplement, her office tightened its belt. Police agreed to pay cuts and giving up some vacation and personal time. The cuts, she said, helped but were not enough to weather the ongoing budget storm. I think people have a right to service and as of right now one day a week is all I can provide. I don't want to cut off their services, totally no. She said the loss of the supplement as well as declining revenues and an increasingly bad economy prompted the money-saving moves. The offices will cease full-time operations after June 30th, reporting in Pike County for EKB News. I'm Chris Anderson.