{"id":2457243,"date":"2020-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=324434"},"modified":"2020-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:00:00","slug":"pitkin-county-board-of-health-to-look-at-options-for-coming-out-of-stay-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/pitkin-county-board-of-health-to-look-at-options-for-coming-out-of-stay-at-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitkin County Board of Health to look at options for coming out of stay-at-home order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pitkin County residents curious about what next month might look like under less-restrictive coronavirus rules during the pandemic should tune in Thursday afternoon to the normally below-the-radar county Board of Health meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWhen was the last time anyone wanted to listen in on a Board of Health meeting?\u201d Bill Linn, a spokesman for the team managing Aspen and Pitkin County\u2019s response to the outbreak, said Wednesday. \u201cBut all of a sudden it\u2019s very important to our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The meeting \u2014 set to begin at 1 p.m. and available for viewing live at pitkincounty.com and on GrassRoots TV \u2014 will provide information about the first level of restrictions that could be loosened after the <a id=\"N0xe692f0N0xe37e10:N0xe692f0N0xed48b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pitkin-county-lengthens-stay-at-home-order-to-april-30-limits-group-down-to-5-people\/\">current stay-at-home public heath order<\/a> expires April 30, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the meeting agenda, those lesser restrictions could include retail stores, offices, golf courses, construction sites and bicycle shops. It apparently would not include restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons or barbershops, among other businesses and services, which are not included in the initial wave of restrictions to be eased.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-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.aspentimes.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 class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201c(Those businesses) are not on the first level of consideration of less restrictive orders yet,\u201d Linn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Exactly when those businesses not included in Thursday\u2019s meeting \u2014 especially the bars and restaurant so key to Aspen\u2019s economy \u2014 will be allowed to open again will depend on certain milestones in the course of the virus, he said. Public health officials will talk about those milestones during the course of Thursday\u2019s meeting, Linn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mostly, however, the meeting will talk about businesses and services that might benefit from the first wave of lesser virus-related restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis meeting in particular will have some real world impacts for all of us,\u201d Linn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For example, a document titled \u201cSocial Distancing Protocol for Businesses\u201d included in Thursday\u2019s agenda provides examples of rules that offices and retail businesses will likely have to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It includes directing everyone who can work from home to do so, not allowing anyone with virus symptoms to come to work, conducting symptom checks before employees are allowed to enter work spaces and separating work stations by at least 6 feet. Stores will have to limit the number of people allowed inside at any one time by posting an employee at the door, place buying restrictions on in-demand items, post signs reminding people to remain 6 feet apart and instruct employees to do the same, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Customers will not be allowed to serve themselves any food items, bulk food bins will be off-limits, and contactless or frequently sanitized payment systems must be provided along with curbside pickup or dropoff where possible, the document states. Surfaces that customers touch \u2014 like shopping carts and payment portals and styluses \u2014 must be regularly sanitized, store employees must wear cloth masks and sanitizer must be provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for <a id=\"N0xe692f0N0xe37f30:N0xe692f0N0xed4e50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/coronavirus-stings-aspen-area-construction-projects\/\">construction sites<\/a>, the agenda includes guidance in documents from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, a plan worked out by Pitkin County and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, and a back-to-work strategy from Gould Construction. The documents are heavy on details \u2014 the Pitkin County\/ACRA plan alone is five pages long \u2014 though they make clear that construction sites can open again in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The fact that golf courses are included in the first wave of restriction easing will no doubt be welcomed by many residents tired of being cooped up inside. Thursday\u2019s agenda included a list of rules implemented at Garfield County golf courses as guidance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Those rules include keeping pro shops and patios closed, no golf cart or push cart rentals, leaving flagsticks in cups, removing bunker rakes, closing driving ranges and putting greens and shutting down water fountains and restrooms on the courses, though public restrooms would still be available. Also, Garfield County restricts play to county residents only, doesn\u2019t allow walk-ons and limits both the number of tee times per day and the amount of time a player can arrive before his or her round to between 15 and 20 minutes, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Food and beverage service at golf course is allowed to continue in Garfield County on a takeout basis, though no more than five people can be in the restaurant area and players cannot order food after their round is over, according to the Garfield County rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Finally, four local bicycle shops proposed a set of rules for opening that includes contactless drop off and pick up, retail sales either taken over the phone and picked up or on a \u201cone in one out\u201d basis, disinfecting of bicycle touch points like grips and saddles on bike repairs and employees scheduled on a half-time basis to limit internal exposure. That\u2019s according to a document from the owners of Hub of Aspen, Ute City Cycles, Basalt Bike and Ski and Aspen Velo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Board of Health agenda also indicates that officials will address landscaping businesses, cleaning and property management services and lodging and short-term rentals past April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thursday\u2019s meeting is scheduled to take place from 1 to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:jauslander@aspentimes.com\">jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pitkin-county-board-of-health-to-look-at-options-for-coming-out-of-stay-at-home-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitkin County residents curious about what next month might look like under less-restrictive coronavirus rules during the pandemic should tune in Thursday afternoon to the normally below-the-radar county Board of Health meeting. \u201cWhen was the last time anyone wanted to listen in on a Board of Health meeting?\u201d Bill Linn, a spokesman for the team [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 03:54:40","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}