Approximately 750 Fort Riley Civilian employees furloughed last week returned to work on Monday.

That information was provided by Senator Jerry Moran.

The return of the employees to work followed the weekend announcement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, recalling most of the DOD civilians who were placed on emergency furlough as a result of the partial federal government shutdown.

Fort Riley Garrison Commander, Col. Andrew Cole, released the following statement,” Fort Riley is pleased with the news from the secretary of defense. It is the right thing to do, to bring back our civilian workers who are a part of team Riley and who serve our soldiers, veterans, retirees and their family members daily.”

Fort Riley employees in offices across the installation who have direct contact with soldiers and soldier services were among those to return Monday. The Fort Riley commissary also resumed regular business hours. A few services remain affected by the emergency furloughs. Fort Riley Museums, including the Cavalry Museum, 1st Infantry Division Museum and Custer House, will be closed to the public. They will open for Soldier training only.

The Leisure Travel Center will operate under reduced hours. Those hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

Eyster Pool will operate under reduced hours as well, for lap swim: 6:30 to 9 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Friday. For open swim, 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. It will be closed weekends and Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

Some community support activities have ceased as well.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran released the following statement Monday,”At a time when it’s pretty difficult to find good news in Washington, we had some over the weekend. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat of West Virginia, and I led an effort to make certain that our Department of Defense (DoD) civilian workers and members of the National Guard and Reserve would not remain furloughed. This past weekend DoD Secretary Chuck Hagel moved quickly to end the furloughs on Reserve, Guard and the DoD civilian workforce.”

He went on to list that in Kansas 767 members of the Kansas National Guard, 300 civilian workers at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, 2,254 civilian workers at Fort Leavenworth and nearly 750 civilian workers at Fort Riley were no longer being furloughed.