(Radio Iowa) – One of the smallest cities in Eastern Iowa with a population of around 50, is no longer considered a city at all. Randalia was officially unincorporated on June 30th. City Clerk Katrina Lane has lived in Randalia most of her life, and talked with K-C-R-G T-V the impact of the city becoming unincorporated. “It kind of means I worked myself out of a job,” Lane says. Lane’s has four kids and her oldest child is teenage son Andy. “I think it just means that we won’t be able to call it Randalia, but that doesn’t change the fact that we still live in it,” Lane says.

Katrina Lane says Randalia auctioned off the city properties to pay off its debt. “The city creamery, city hall, and the park and the playground equipment were sold separately, she says. Lane said it was a tough day for everyone, including her two young daughters, to see the park equipment go. Lane told K-C-R-G T-V that the population just kept declining and the town didn’t have the people or money to do the jobs to keep it running. “People moving out, people passing away, and…people not coming back in,” she says.

Fayette County will now be responsible for Randalia, including snowplowing its roads and maintaining them.