{"id":8806,"date":"2020-05-05T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:16:42","slug":"yakima-city-council-extends-declaration-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-city-council-extends-declaration-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima City Council Extends Declaration of Emergency Due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During its regular meeting tonight, Tuesday, May 5<sup>th<\/sup> the Yakima City Council extended an emergency proclamation due to COVID-19. Council\u2019s action extends the declaration through Thursday, June 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows Gov. Jay Inslee\u2019s decision to extend his stay-at-home orders through May 31<sup>st<\/sup>. Gov. Inslee announced a four-phase process to re-open the state\u2019s economy. A link to it is available on the City of Yakima\u2019s COVID-19 webpage &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/covid19\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/covid19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Patricia Byers signed the initial emergency declaration on March 12<sup>th<\/sup>, which took effect immediately.&nbsp; Under state law, the full Council needed to ratify the declaration in order for it to remain in effect long term. Council did so unanimously during a special meeting held March 13<sup>th<\/sup>. Council then extended the order another 30 days during its meeting on Tuesday, April 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All City buildings remain closed to the public to help stem the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City continues to provide services to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/online-city-services\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/points-of-interest\/online-city-services\/<\/a> for options to connect with City departments online and by phone.<\/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\/Emergency-Extension-News-Release-1.pdf\">Emergency-Extension-News-Release-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Emergency-Extension-News-Release-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During its regular meeting tonight, Tuesday, May 5th the Yakima City Council extended an emergency proclamation due to COVID-19. Council\u2019s action extends the declaration through Thursday, June 4th. It follows Gov. Jay Inslee\u2019s decision to extend his stay-at-home orders through May 31st. Gov. Inslee announced a four-phase process to re-open the state\u2019s economy. A link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","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\/8806","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}