{"id":8504,"date":"2020-03-13T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T00:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:31:39","slug":"yakima-city-council-ratifies-declaration-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-city-council-ratifies-declaration-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima City Council Ratifies Declaration of Emergency Due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At a special meeting today, the\nYakima City Council unanimously ratified a declaration of emergency due the\npresence of confirmed cases of COVID-19, commonly referred to as coronavirus,\nin Yakima County.&nbsp; The Yakima County\nHealth District has reported that the virus has been confirmed to have infected\nthree people in Yakima County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Mayor Patricia Byers signed the\ndeclaration, which took effect immediately.&nbsp;\nUnder state law, the full Council needed to ratify the declaration in\norder for it to remain in effect long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yakima County Commission also\nissued a declaration of emergency during a special meeting yesterday.&nbsp; The Yakima County Health District announced\nat the County Commission special meeting that it, too, had issued a declaration\nof emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with a decision today by\nGovernor Inslee that extends a ban on gatherings of 250 people or more to the\nentire state, the Health District has recommended that no gatherings of 100 or\nmore people take place in Yakima County until further notice.&nbsp; Accordingly, the City has closed or\nrestricted meeting sizes at City-owned facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harman Senior Center, the\nHenry Beauchamp Community Center, and the Washington Fruit Community Center,\nall City-owned, are closed until further notice. Events at the Capitol Theatre\nand the Yakima Convention Center, both of which are also owned by the City, have\nbeen cancelled for the remainder of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All City board, commission, and\ncommittee meetings are cancelled until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Council\u2019s March 17<sup>th<\/sup> regular meeting will be the last to take place publicly during the month of March.&nbsp; The Council encourages community members that don\u2019t have specific business to discuss at the March 17<sup>th<\/sup> meeting to not attend the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signs have been posted at City facilities letting community members know the steps the City is taking to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.&nbsp; The signs also inform community members how they can take care of City business without having to do so in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information will be provided regarding the City\u2019s declaration of emergency as necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Ratification-of-Declaration-of-Emergency-News-Release.pdf\">Ratification-of-Declaration-of-Emergency-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Ratification-of-Declaration-of-Emergency-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a special meeting today, the Yakima City Council unanimously ratified a declaration of emergency due the presence of confirmed cases of COVID-19, commonly referred to as coronavirus, in Yakima County.&nbsp; The Yakima County Health District has reported that the virus has been confirmed to have infected three people in Yakima County. Yesterday, Mayor Patricia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}