Memorandum
Date: August 4, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: E.J. Crandell, District 4 Supervisor
Subject: (a) Consideration of an Urgency Ordinance of the Lake County Board of Supervisors to Provide for Compliance with State and Local Public Health Orders, to Assist Local Businesses and Members of the Public During the Continuing Public Health Emergency, and to Adopt Administrative Fines for Violations of Public Health Orders in Egregious Cases, and (b) Discussion of an Ordinance Amending the Lake County Code to Provide for Compliance with State and Local Public Health Orders, with direction to staff
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
Over the past several weeks, I am pleased to have worked with members of our COVID-19 Blue Collar Committee to prepare the draft urgency ordinance which has served as the basis for our consideration today. For reference, the Committee's draft is attached hereto. Preserving the intent of the Committee, our County Counsel has formatted the document and added clarification.
As we are all aware, while our own local metrics have been manageable to date, Lake County is now nearly surrounded by counties who are on the state "monitoring" list, having lost local control with respect to opening/reopening of businesses during the COVID-19 crisis and severely impacting the local economies in those areas. Once a County is reaches this status, affected local businesses may not reopen until the State Health Officer authorizes reopening.
The vast majority of our local businesses and agencies are diligently complying with Public Health Orders and studies now show that the use of facial coverings can significantly reduce respiratory virus infections and slow community spread of COVID-19. When facial coverings are not used, there is increased potential for the State's renewed curtailment of local business operations and thus, some level of enforcement for egr...
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