{"id":806738,"date":"2020-04-23T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382189"},"modified":"2020-04-24T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:17:55","slug":"summit-county-officials-thoroughly-debate-plan-to-ease-some-public-health-order-restrictions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-officials-thoroughly-debate-plan-to-ease-some-public-health-order-restrictions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County officials thoroughly debate plan to ease some public health order restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Reopen-SDN-042420-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Cyclists take advantage of empty streets in Breckenridge on Thursday, April 23. Summit County could issue an updated public health order easing restrictions as soon as Friday. <\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DILLON \u2014 Summit County government\u2019s cautious grappling with how to take steps to gradually reopen the county amid the coronavirus pandemic was on full display Wednesday and Thursday for hundreds of interested residents to see.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a virtual meeting to consider the government\u2019s \u201croadmap to recovery\u201d plans quickly reached its capacity of 100 people. At Thursday\u2019s meeting \u2014 which was bumped up to accommodate as many as 500 viewers \u2014 County Manager Scott Vargo said Public Health Director Amy Wineland could issue the county\u2019s new public health order as early as Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vargo said the county would like to have Wineland sign the updated regulations for residents and businesses Friday despite the fact that the county doesn\u2019t expect official directives from the state until the weekend. Vargo and other officials said the county would reserve the right to alter the local order pending state measures.<\/p>\n<p>For the past month, the Summit Board of County Commissioners, acting as the Summit County Board of Health, has held public meetings three times per week pertaining to local coronavirus issues. At previous meetings, just a few non-county officials joined the video conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/sdn-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But on Wednesday, public interest surged as county officials \u2014 such as commissioners, managers, an attorney, the public health director and the emergency management director \u2014 discussed and debated the proposed updates for more than two hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that it\u2019s been very challenging for people to be living their lives under the stay-at-home order from the state and then the restrictions in the local public health order,\u201d county spokeswoman Julie Sutor said after Wednesday\u2019s meeting. \u201cAnd we appreciate all of the sacrifice and all of the dedication that the community has shown in helping to control the spread of COVID-19. \u2026 People are eager to resume some pieces of their lives that have been restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s meeting was an exhaustive one, where Assistant County Manager Sarah Vaine moderated discussion among the county officials for 40 minutes. For nearly an hour and a half after that, officials went over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-commissioners-propose-easing-some-restrictions-in-roadmap-to-recovery\/\">14 bullet points the county shared earlier in the week as recommendations<\/a> for an updated public health order.<\/p>\n<p>After debating the recommendations Wednesday, the officials returned Thursday to discuss the top items they felt affected the community, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether to mandate the wearing of face masks and coverings everywhere in public or only within nonresidential buildings, namely retail stores<\/li>\n<li>How and when to allow child care services to reopen with restrictions<\/li>\n<li>Whether to open in-shop services for nonessential businesses or to limit nonessential businesses to curbside pickup<\/li>\n<li>Whether second-home owners should be mandated by order not to visit their second home outside of essential maintenance or if traveling to Summit County should just be highly discouraged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The officials supported bringing the primary Summit Stage bus lines through the Blue River and Snake River corridors back on board.<\/p>\n<p>The officials also said they could possibly work with town managers to create an online application process for local businesses and service providers to be considered for slight alterations to elements of the order.<\/p>\n<p>And the officials made it clear that any regulations the county order puts in place would have to be more stringent than the state order, unless they wanted to go through a special exemption application process.<\/p>\n<p>Vargo and other county officials, including Commissioner Elisabeth Lawrence, said that despite Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 press conferences earlier this week touching on potential upcoming changes to regulations, the county is left in the dark about what to do until the official state order arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, county officials said they are looking for more explicit direction from the state in terms of detailing measures affecting personal-service businesses such as hair salons, the relaxing of measures affecting child care services, and what exactly \u201cstrict precautions\u201d means as it pertains to elective medical and dental procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a challenge for local public health agencies, for local boards of health, because of the approach that the governor\u2019s office has taken in issuing these orders,\u201d Vargo said Thursday. \u201c\u2026 I sense the perception in general in the public is the county is holding back information. The fact is we simply do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-officials-thoroughly-debate-plan-to-ease-some-public-health-order-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists take advantage of empty streets in Breckenridge on Thursday, April 23. Summit County could issue an updated public health order easing restrictions as soon as Friday. Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com DILLON \u2014 Summit County government\u2019s cautious grappling with how to take steps to gradually reopen the county amid the coronavirus pandemic was on full [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 03:47:55","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806752,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806738\/revisions\/806752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}