County employees got an early Christmas gift this year from the Hall County Board of Commissioners — no more furlough days for the rest of this fiscal year.With the board’s approval last week, unpaid leave days that had been set for April 15 and June 10 are no more, meaning employees won’t have to skip those days without pay and county offices go back to being open year-round, except for holidays.“It’s a relief, to be honest,” said David Nix, supervisor of road right of way and utility coordinator for Hall’s engineering and public works department.The furloughs “required some belt-tightening on everybody’s part, but ... during that economic downturn, it became part of our operation,” he said. “We weren’t alone, of course. Other counties were doing the same. ... You just had to adjust your life to accommodate that.“It was kind of a mixed blessing because you had a day off in the middle of the week to take care of personal business when there wasn’t lines at the bank or anything of that nature.”The county started imposing monthly furlough days in fiscal 2009, which began July 1, 2008, to cope with the economic downturn.