The government shutdown isn’t trickling down to most operations in DeKalb.

After the government shutdown on Sept. 30, federal departments stopped receiving funds from the government and federal workers temporarily stopped receiving pay. Many of the area’s city-level projects are planned in advance, and so those projects won’t be affected.

“The federal sequester really does not affect operational dollars for the city at all,” said DeKalb Mayor John Rey.

The only areas of the city that could be affected by the shutdown are transportation, aviation and the Community Development Block Grant, and those changes will be minimal, said interim city manager Rudy Espiritu.

“In terms of transportation, we take in federal dollars that are then spread to various organizations for different things,” said Public Works Director T.J. Moore. “As of right now, we’re OK; if this were to last for months or longer, there would be an operational impact.”

While no block grant projects will be touched, if a resident wanted to call the office and ask a question, he or she would not be able to because the office is closed due to the shutdown.

“With the Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant program there really is no affect whatsoever,” said Community Services Planner Jamie Smirz. “Our projects are all pre-approved and our funding is available to us, so all of the projects we have designated for the upcoming year are already set.”

The DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport, 3232 Pleasant St., may be affected by the government shutdown as it continues.

“Airport capital projects are funded 90 percent by federal government, 5 percent by the state government, and we pay 5 percent,” Moore said. “Over time, money will stop flowing from the federal government to the state government, which will impede our ability to perform larger scale maintenance at the airport.”

Though the repercussions of the shutdown may be minimal in DeKalb for the time being, time has stopped on the federal level.

“I’d like to see progress toward compromised position in Washington,” Rey said. “Hopefully that log jam will break and we will see progress before anything would impact us locally.”