{"id":1319661,"date":"2020-04-27T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995948"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:22:40","slug":"from-stay-at-home-to-safer-at-home-local-businesses-public-officials-adjust-to-new-health-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/from-stay-at-home-to-safer-at-home-local-businesses-public-officials-adjust-to-new-health-order\/","title":{"rendered":"From stay at home to safer at home, local businesses, public officials adjust to new health order"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-1024x634.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/reopen-gpi-042820-2048x1268.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Summit Canyon Mountaineering owner Carl Moak helps a customer with a product outisde the store on Monday afternoon.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After being closed since March 26, Summit Canyon Mountaineering on Sixth Street in Glenwood Springs reopened for curbside pickup Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not really expecting it to be anything great, but we\u2019ve already had a sale this morning,\u201d said owner Carl Moak.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 crisis forced the small business owner to layoff his entire staff, however, since last week, Moak has been gradually bringing employees back on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are anticipating being fully staffed starting next week,\u201d Moak said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\" data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 safer at home executive order allows retail businesses to reopen their interior space to customers on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Garfield County, retail businesses like Summit Canyon Mountaineering will have to wait until May 4 to do so.<\/p>\n<p>According to Garfield County Public Health Director Yvonne Long, local businesses must fill out an online form detailing their plans to maintain social distancing requirements and a clean work environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need a plan for how you really plan on opening up your business and allowing that very minimum amount of people in,\u201d Long said.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completing the online form, businesses will receive a receipt from Garfield County Public Health, which they\u2019ll need to display either on a door or window.<\/p>\n<p>According to Long, as of Monday afternoon, the county had received over 150 plans from local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get complaints down the road of non-compliance \u2026 we can go back to that plan and pull it up and go to that owner,\u201d Long said. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest enforcement piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glenwood Springs City Councilor Steve Davis, who also owns Hookers Fly Shop downtown, believed adhering to social distancing requirements was critical but also doable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mom and pop shop that has such a small footprint can easily monitor the appropriate social distancing and cleanliness standards you\u2019d hope to see everywhere,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, medical, dental and veterinary offices were also allowed to reopen for elective procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lauren Roper, who owns New Castle Dental, said despite being allowed to conduct elective procedures, her practice would continue to only perform emergency ones for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roper, New Castle Dental did not have enough personal protective equipment on hand, yet, to handle both elective and emergency dental procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put in an order for some more [personal protective equipment] last week and immediately got an email saying items were still back-ordered,\u201d Roper said.<\/p>\n<p>While the governor\u2019s safer at home order provides reopening guidelines for many businesses, it also allows counties and municipalities to impose stricter standards.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, the Glenwood Springs City Council will discuss more restrictive measures it has already implemented locally like requiring residents to wear face coverings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to open as quickly as possible within the governor\u2019s restrictions,\u201d Councilor Tony Hershey said.<\/p>\n<p>Hershey, however, was not in favor of imposing any additional restrictions locally, that would go above and beyond the governor\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that people continue to take it upon themselves to be cautious,\u201d said Councilor Paula Stepp. \u201cLet\u2019s take this one step at a time\u2026and slowly open things up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/from-stay-at-home-to-safer-at-home-local-businesses-public-officials-adjust-to-new-health-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit Canyon Mountaineering owner Carl Moak helps a customer with a product outisde the store on Monday afternoon. Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent After being closed since March 26, Summit Canyon Mountaineering on Sixth Street in Glenwood Springs reopened for curbside pickup Monday. \u201cWe\u2019re not really expecting it to be anything great, but we\u2019ve already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 08:22:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319669,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319661\/revisions\/1319669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}