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San Bernardino County’s coronavirus case, death trends continue to improve – San Bernardino Sun

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San Bernardino County reported no new coronavirus deaths and just 10 new confirmed casesMonday, Sept. 14, as cases, deaths, and hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue to trend

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downward.

As of Monday, the county has 50,709 confirmed cases and 832 deaths. San Bernardino County hasreported 3,067 new cases and 116 deaths between Sept. 1 and 14. Both are down from the previoustwo-week period, when 6,078 cases and 148 deaths were reported.

Hospitalizations are also down almost 60% over the past four weeks.

Here are the latest numbers, according to county and state public health officials.

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Confirmed cases: 50,709, up from 50,699 Sunday, Sept. 13

Deaths: 832, no change from Sunday

Hospitalizations: 183 confirmed patients Sunday, down from 190 Saturday, Sept. 12; 34 suspectedpatients Sunday, down from 36 Saturday

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People tested: 548,799, up from 545,008 Sunday

Recoveries (estimated): 45,601, up from 45,508 Sunday

Reopening plan tier: Purple (widespread risk level). Many non-essential indoor business operationsare closed.

To see a map and list of cases, deaths and per-capita rates by community, click here.

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New cases per day per 100,000 residents: 7.9Case rate adjusted for testing volume: 8.7Test positivity rate: 7.5%What’s next: The state updates these numbers Tuesdays. To advance to the red/substantial risk tier,San Bernardino County would need both an adjusted case rate of 7 or less and a positivity rate of8% or less for two consecutive weeks.

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The rate of Californians testing positive for COVID-19 has continued to fall even as the state has opened new options, including a walk-up kiosk at LosAngeles Union Station that can conduct 500 tests per day. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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As the Golden State faces a triple threat of respiratory risks — destructive wildfires, toxicair quality and a deadly pandemic — there is a faint glimmer of hope.

Over the last seven days, just 3.5% of COVID-19 tests in California came back positive, thelowest rate since the state began reporting the data in late March. A month ago, thepositive test rate was nearly twice as high.

The number of new confirmed cases has fallen to the lowest level since mid-June,according to a Times analysis of state data. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have fallen tothe lowest levels since the start of April, with 2,869 patients in hospital beds Saturday.

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These positive signs come as California reduces the turnaround time for coronavirus tests.Dr. Erica Pan, the acting state public health officer, said last week that laboratories are nowproducing test results in an average of 1.3 days.

The data have left officials feeling cautiously optimistic about California’s progress againstthe pandemic as the state nears the end of the sixth month of stay-at-home orders. Theyurged residents to stay vigilant and to keep taking the precautions that are working:wearing face coverings in public, observing social distancing with anyone outside theimmediate household and staying home whenever possible.

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Officials said there are two factors that could mar the rate of positive tests: a decline intesting during the wildfires and lingering questions about whether Labor Day gatheringscaused a surge in transmissions.

It can take up to two weeks for the coronavirus to incubate in the human body. Californiasaw a surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths after the Memorial Day weekend, whichincluded holiday gatherings, graduation parties, massive protests over police brutality andthe reopening of bars, which were later closed again.

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Health officials are “very anxious to figure out” whether gatherings, parties and otheractivities over the latest three-day weekend, which ended a week ago, will lead to anotherspike in cases, “which then leads to more hospitalizations and even more deaths,” saidBarbara Ferrer, director of Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health.

“We are, in fact, somewhat challenged about getting good data because we’ve had bothextreme heat and we’ve had the fires that have created unhealthy air conditions,” Ferrercontinued. “What that’s led to, unfortunately, is a lot less testing.”

Ash and smoke from the Bobcat fire were so strong that L.A. County was forced totemporarily close some testing sites in the San Gabriel Valley. But, Ferrer said, the vastmajority of testing centers are open. She urged residents to get tested if they haveexperienced COVID-19 symptoms or have associated with anyone who has, including in aworkplace or at home.

Meanwhile, Southern California officials are watching with interest and caution as SanDiego and Orange counties have begun to slowly reopen indoor businesses. Bothcounties have received approval from the state to reopen restaurant dining rooms,museums, movie theaters and places of worship at 25% capacity.

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Last week, Los Angeles County reported 9.6 transmissions per 100,000 residents. That ratemust fall below seven per 100,000 for two consecutive weeks before Newsom would allowrestaurants, theaters and other nonessential businesses to reopen.

For now, no L.A. County school campuses will be allowed to reopen to all K-12 studentsuntil at least November. However, schools will be allowed to offer in-person classes forchildren with special needs, provided occupancy on campus does not exceed 10% of thestudent body.

Public health officials have received 59 applications from individual schools to reopen for“students who cannot be served virtually,” Ferrer said.

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By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: September 14, 2020 at 8:41 a.m. | UPDATED: September 14, 2020 at 7:01 p.m.

An early morning flareup by the El Dorado fire on Monday, Sept. 14, threatened the San BernardinoMountains community of Angelus Oaks – prompting an urgent message from authorities that anyonewho remained in the town should leave immediately.

Angelus Oaks was already under evacuation orders, issued last week.

The El Dorado fire has moved north of Highway 38 in the Mountain Home Village area, but firefighterswere concerned Monday that the blaze, which elsewhere has stayed mostly south of the highway,may head north, possibly threatening communities that line the roadway.

Smoke rises from the El Dorado fire flareup below the San Bernardino Mountain town of Angelus Oaks on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020(Courtesy Cathey Mattingly, Cal Fire)

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Direct attacks on the fire will continue, but “we do anticipate that it will hit Highway 38 within the next24 hours,” operation section chief Daniel Diaz said in a briefing just before 11 a.m.

Firefighters were looking at contingencies that they have already established to hold the fire, Diazsaid.

The El Dorado fire, started by a smoke device set off at a gender-reveal photo shoot at a park inYucaipa on Sept. 5, has burned 14,478 acres and was 44% contained as of Monday morning.Monday night, new statistics showed the blaze had grown to 16,490 acres with containment up to53%. Containment is the percentage of the fire’s perimeter that will no long expand, because offirefighters’ work or barriers such as roads and bodies of water.

MAP: Where the El Dorado fire is burning in the San Bernardino Mountains

By midafternoon, Cal Fire spokeswoman Cathey Mattingly said the fire was continuing to burnnortheast toward San Bernardino Peak.

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“We have increased fire activity below Angelus Oaks,” in the Mountain Home Creek area south of thetown, Mattingly said. “The fire is moving more intensely in a northern direction.”

Mattingly called the flareup a “very viable threat” to Angelus Oaks.

Set on Highway 38 in the San Bernardino National Forest, the unincorporated community of AngelusOaks’ population is 535 as of 2010, according to data from the area’s ZIP code.

The nearby San Bernardino Peak Divide Trailhead is a destination for hikers heading into the SanGorgonio Wilderness. Along with homes and a small retail area, the town includes a post office.

Firefighters had already built a contingency line between the fire and the Angelus Oaks community toprepare for the possibility of the fire threatening it, Mattingly said.

Firefighters were in the town, Monday morning with more being sent to protect the community, “just aswe did in Forest Falls and Mountain Home Village” earlier in the El Dorado fire, Mattingly said.

The fire was sending up a large plume of smoke, she said.

Temperatures spiked and winds strengthened around 2 a.m. Monday, Diaz said, pushing the fire intothe Mountain Home Creek area.

He said the winds had since subsided and fire retardant was being dropped between the fire line andAngelus Oaks, along with other ground efforts. More than 1,300 firefighting personnel were at thescene Monday.

“Crews will continue to cut fire lines, and will be supported by air resources to reduce the momentumof the fire with water and retardant,” the Forest Service said in a Monday night update.



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The weather was hot and dry throughout the fire area. A high temperature of 80 degrees was forecastMonday for Angelus Oaks, at 5,800-feet elevation, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph and gusts as highas 20 mph, the National Weather Service said.

Highs for the community were expected to reach 79 Tuesday.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory for a wide area ofSouthern California under a pall from both the El Dorado and Bobcat fires.

In addition to Angelus Oaks, evacuation orders were in effect for Mountain Home, Forest Falls, 7Oaks and the Barton Flats/Jenks Lake area.

The San Bernardino National Forest is closed until further notice because of fire danger. Highway 38remained closed from Bryant Street to Onyx Summit.

At the fire’s height, about 20,000 people had been orderedevacuated, that number Monday was down to 3,467,firefighters said.

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Insomniac Events’ Nocturnal Wonderland will return to Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore in September 2021. (File photo by TerryPierson, San Bernardino Sun/SCNG)

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The 210 Freeway is set to be closed in both directions at Base Line in Highland Thursday night, Sept.17, for bridge work.

The construction is part of a project upgrading that interchange and adding lanes to the freewaybetween San Bernardino and Redlands.

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Base Line’s on- and off-ramps are expected to be closed nightly this week through Thursday morning.

Victoria and Highland avenues in San Bernardino are alsoset to be closed Monday night, Sept. 14, due to the project.

The almost $200 million project will add a lane in eachdirection to the 210 between the 10 Freeway in Redlandsand Sterling Avenue in San Bernardino.

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By KEVIN SMITH | [email protected] | San Gabriel Valley TribunePUBLISHED: September 14, 2020 at 4:29 p.m. | UPDATED: September 14, 2020 at 5:26 p.m.

With e-commerce ramping up and the holidays fast approaching, Amazon is looking to hire 4,900logistics workers in the Inland Empire.

The recruiting drive comes on top of the 1,000 employees who were recently hired to work at thecompany’s new 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Beaumont. Amazon currently employs morethan 91,000 people throughout California.

The e-commerce giant is looking to add 100,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada to keep pacewith growing demand as consumers increasingly turn to online buying amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The customer demand is there, and we’re seeing it increase leading into the holidays,” Amazon

Amazon plans to hire 4,900 logistics workers in the Inland Empire. That comes on top of the 1,000 employees who were recentlyrecruited to work at the company’s new 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Beaumont. (Photo courtesy of Amazon)

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spokeswoman Deborah Bass said. “We’re building out our fulfillment network to meet that demand.”

Local job openings involve packing customer orders, shipping and logistics. Positions are currentlyavailable in such communities as Perris, Rialto, Fontana, Riverside, Beaumont and San Bernardino.

Amazon opened 75 new fulfillment, sorting and delivery facilities in the U.S. this year, Bass said, andhundreds of additional locations will be opening by year’s end. She didn’t reveal where any additionalSouthern California locations will be.

Amazon already has a massive presence in the Inland Empire, with nine fulfillment centers, threecross-dock locations, two sorting centers and one Amazon Air facility. Collectively, those facilitiesemploy more than 20,000 workers.

Logistics Management reported in June that companies were leveraging a fresh crop of entry-leveland experienced workers that were available and ready to work — a task that would have beendifficult earlier in the year when the national unemployment rate was just 3.5%.

Tisha Danehl, a strategy and recruitment professional with The Adecco Group in Chicago, saidcompanies are focusing on their most critical labor needs and centering on positions that were difficultto fill pre-COVID.

“The flood gates aren’t opening yet, but some firms are exploring their options on the permanenthire/direct hire side of the market versus temporary employment,” she said in an interview withLogistics Management.

Online sales up 30.1%

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Commerce showconsumers spent $347.3billion online with U.S.retailers during the first sixmonths of 2020, a 30.1%increase over the sameperiod a year earlier.Online sales during the firsthalf of 2019 grew by just12.7% year over year.

Digital Commerce linkedthe increase primarily tostore closures and stay-at-home orders that were put in place during the second quarter as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.That prompted a growing number of shoppers to buy their merchandise online.

During that three-month period, online buying among U.S. retailers rose 44% year over year to$200.72 billion.

Information on Amazon job openings in the Inland Empire can be found at amazon.com/apply. Wagesfor all workers start at a minimum of $15 an hour and employees receive full medical, vision anddental insurance as well as a 401(k) plan with a 50% match.

Some positions include sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000, depending on the needs of the location andthe job that needs to be filled.

“We anticipate this holiday season will be one of the bigger ones for us — if not the biggest,” Basssaid.

A new shopping day

Retail consultant Deborah Weinswig, CEO and founder of Coresight Research, has partnered withShopkick Inc. to create a 10.10 shopping day for consumers. The idea is to launch the holidayshopping season earlier so retailers can better cope with shipping capacity and available merchandise

Amazon employs more than 91,000 people throughout California. (Photo courtesy of Amazon)

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while also managing consumer concerns for safe in-store shopping in a Covid-19 environment.

Silicon Valley-based Shopkick created a shopping app for smartphones and tablets that offers usersrewards for shopping activities both online and in stores, such as walking into stores, scanning items,making in-app or in-store purchases and submitting receipts.


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Administrator Hrag Bekerian felt confident, he said, that they were taking the right precautions at GemTransitional Care Center before the coronavirus struck.

The four-star-rated nursing home on South Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena had closed its doors tovisitors a week before the state’s guidance. Managers held frequent training sessions, screened allentrants and ramped up hand-washing checks.

“We believe we were well-prepared,” said Bekerian, 31.

Hrag Bekerian, administrator of Gem Transitional Care Center, poses at the Pasadena center on Friday, August 7, 2020. The nursinghome had a high number of patients and staff including Bekerian who contracted COVID-19. Today they have no coronaviruspatients. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

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Southern California Nursing Homes during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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The series was produced by correspondent Brenda Gazzar and SCNG staff writer Beau Yarbrough,participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism‘s California Fellowship.

Sunday, Part One: What do Southern California nursing homes hard hit by COVID-related deathshave in common? We spoke with experts, nursing home administrators and advocates to find out.Tuesday, Part Two: A tale of two Pasadena nursing homes. One, Gem Transitional Care Center,hard hit by COVID deaths and another, Camellia Gardens, about four miles away, that wasn’t.Wednesday, Part Three: Highland Springs Care Center in Beaumont has one of the highestpercentage of COVID-19 deaths per average daily number of residents of any skilled nursing homein Orange, Riverside or San Bernardino counties.

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Yet since mid-April, nearly 55 residents at Gem Transitional tested positive for COVID, more than adozen of whom died. With typically around 65 daily residents, the nursing home has one of the highestCOVID-related resident death rates in Los Angeles County for its population, according to a review bythe Southern California News Group.

About four miles up the road is CamelliaGardens Care Center. As a one-star facility, ithas the lowest possible overall rating onMedicare’s Nursing Home Compare. Theslightly larger home had three residents contractCOVID and only one death, said Nelida Arlante,the home’s administrator.

Arlante believes their vigilance helped curb the virus there. As a former physician in the Philippines,Arlante said, she may have had an edge.

2,900 deaths in region

More than 2,900 nursing home residents have died of COVID-19-related causes in Los Angeles,Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, comprising about one-third of this region’s totalcoronavirus deaths, according to data from the California Department of Public Health.

Nursing homes across the region have touted early studies showing that location and size largelydetermine how they’ve fared with the virus. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that several otherfactors can help seal a home’s fate.

A caregiver gets a temperature check while Nelida Arlante,administrator of Camellia Gardens, poses at the Pasadena carecenter on Friday, August 7, 2020. Arlante says a dozen staffmembers and three residents tested positive for COVID-19, withone patient death. Arlante believes the strict rules, educationalsessions and oversight she implemented at her facility helped curbthe spread of the virus. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los AngelesDaily News/SCNG)

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Mass testing with quick results and adequate personal protective equipment are clearly important,experts say. Nursing staff levels, infection-control practices, resident demographics, leadership andeven a home’s for-profit status also can contribute to the death toll.

“It’s all those factors,” said Charlene Harrington, professor emerita at UC San Francisco and aregistered nurse.

Behind the high death toll

Bekerian believes the high death toll at his for-profit facility is due at least partly to the type ofresidents it serves.

“We take high acuity patients,” said Bekerian,whose Gem Transitional facility often acceptspatients from neighboring Huntington Hospital.“We had residents in the building that hadhigher and severe chronic conditions.”

People of color, who are disproportionatelyaffected by the virus, also made up nearly 60%of their residents, according to data Bekerianprovided.

California nursing homes with overall quality ratings of four and five stars were less likely to haveCOVID-19 cases and deaths when adjusting for a home’s size and patients’ race, according to a studyin the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Nursing facilities with smaller whitepopulations and for-profit ones were more likely to have higher cases and deaths.

Learning hard lessons

Like with many homes, there were also hard lessons they learned in real time.

First, Bekerian said, guidance from local, state and federal agencies kept changing.

He also realized it would have been best to quarantine staff working at multiple facilities at home for14 days right away. Instead, Gem Transitional had at first waited for COVID-19 cases to surface at anemployee’s second facility before doing so.

Hrag Bekerian, administrator of Gem Transitional Care Center,poses at the Pasadena center on Friday, August 7, 2020. Thenursing home had a high number of patients and staff includingBekerian who contracted COVID-19. Today they have nocoronavirus patients. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los AngelesDaily News/SCNG)

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The nursing home, which has a four-star rating for staffing, eventually told employees they had to pickone facility after the Pasadena Public Health Department directed nursing homes to avoid usingemployees with multiple jobs “by any means possible” on April 12.

“I think it would have shown us good results if we had done it much, much earlier,” Bekerian said,noting the facility was simply following the guidance given by local health officials.

The vast majority of their employees stayed, he said, and all received hazard pay. He declined to sayhow much.

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Employees work at other facilities

Sometimes, employees work at nursing homes with known COVID outbreaks and then are allowed byemployers to work at a second facility, said Molly Davies, who oversees L.A. County’s ombudsmanprogram that investigates concerns of residents in long-term care.

Along with a lack of adequate staffing and training, Davies believes this has been a main reason whysome nursing homes have been harder hit.

“Part of that is because facilities don’t want to pay overtime so they’d rather have you work even atanother building because it starts the clock again,” Davies said.

Watch employees ‘like a hawk’

Arlante has pondered how the for-profit Camellia Gardens, which has below-average ratings forstaffing and health inspections, had managed to escape a harsher death toll.

“Maybe (it’s because) we are strict with ouremployees and we watch them like a hawk,”

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Arlante said. “Hand hygiene seems so simplebut if you are lax, you will forget the steps anddo the shortcut.”

Calming employees’ fears with regular shifttraining was important, she said. Being availableto answer questions at any time was as well.

Arlante and Camellia Gardens’ director ofnursing slept on couches in the conferenceroom for a week after their first COVID case,she said. They later often stayed until 10 or 11p.m. at night to supervise the employees.

“I treat the facility as family and these employees like children,” she said. “If they are afraid, they cando something drastic unless the mother hen is there.”

Camellia Gardens also provided its employees with meals three times a day to reduce their trips andtheir exposure outside, Arlante said.

OT and double-time allowed

The home began requiring nursing staff to pick one facility in May, she said, and lost 15 nurses in theprocess. But Camellia Gardens gave “bonuses” to all employees and allowed for overtime as well asdouble-time, which enabled them “to get by.”

Bekerian believes the local health order directing facilities to avoid using employees who work at otherfacilities helped turn things around at his home. Gem Transitional also learned to adapt to a new,stringent reality.

They had separate entrances for those caring for COVIDpatients, separate areas to put on their PPE and separatebreak rooms. The nursing home became vigilant aboutwatching its staff put on and take off their masks, glovesand gowns.

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have put in place,” Bekerian said.

New residents accepted

In mid-August, the city gave the nursing home clearance toaccept new residents again. New residents are put in anobservation unit for 14 days before they can go into the“green zone” with patients who don’t have the virus or havefully recovered from it.

As of Sept. 10, Gem Transitional had 44 patients in a home with 75 beds.

With all the different zones in the building, it has “beds ready in case a breakdown happens,” Bekeriansaid. But ultimately, he would “love to get back to full capacity.”

“It’s a little challenging but that’s our goal down the road,” he said. “We’re taking it day by day.”

Contributor Elissa Lee contributed to this report. This article was produced as part of a project for theUSC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship.


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Amid pandemic, some cities have opened theircity council meetings to the publicLa Mirada is one of the few cities – Downey, Lakewood and Rancho PalosVerdes are some others – that have allowed the public to attend meetingsin person since took their meetings online in the early days of thecoronavirus crisis.

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By MIKE SPRAGUE | [email protected] | Whittier Daily NewsPUBLISHED: September 14, 2020 at 11:28 a.m. | UPDATED: September 14, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.

When La Mirada protesters last Tuesday completed their vigil in memory of Dijon Kizzee, a Blackman who was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in unincorporated Westmonton Aug. 31, they got to do something you can’t do in most cities these days.

They walked from La Mirada Regional Park to City Hall, entered the council chambers and watchedthe council meeting in person. And one of their group spoke during the public comment period.

La Mirada is one of the few cities — Downey, Lakewood andRancho Palos Verdes are some others — that have allowed thepublic to attend meetings in person since took their meetingsonline in the early days of the coronavirus crisis.

La Mirada opened its council meetings to the public back in June.

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“We opened it as soon as (Los Angeles County) allowed government institutions to open,” La MiradaMayor John Lewis said in a Monday telephone interview.

“Our understanding is that council meetings are an essential function,” La Mirada City Manager JeffBoynton said.

“It makes it easier for residents to get access to the council,” Lewis said. “It also makes running ameeting easier.”

During the city’s Zoom meetings, you couldn’t always hear council members and there were otherdelays, Lewis said.

“Sometimes you would hear nothing but screeching,” Lewis said.

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La Mirada opened its meetings around the same time it opened City Hall and some other city facilities,including the Community Sheriff’s Station and Public Works offices, Boynton said.

La Mirada is able to follow protocols for social distancing. For example, every other row of seats isblocked off. Loose chairs around the hall have been removed, Boynton said. In addition, everyone isrequired to wear face masks.

So far, everything has worked out, officials said.

Lakewood never banned the public from its council meetings, but only the mayor and city clerk wereattending meetings in person last spring, City Manager Thaddeus McCormack said.

By late June, most council members were attending. Later, the meetings were moved to WeingartBallroom, a city facility that can hold 800 people, McCormack said.

Social distancing is adhered to and everyone entering the meeting has their temperature checked,McCormack said.

Downey’s meetings also also open but the city only allows 10 members of the public in the hall at onetime, management analyst Judy Montenegro said.

While there have been waiting lines to get in at some meetings, that’s not always the case,Montenegro said. Last week, there were only six members of the public in attendance, she said.


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