[Vision2020] Fwd: Moscow Public Emergency Emergency Order

[Kenneth Marcy]

Considering orders such as the one in the forwarded message below, and 
the fact that, for whatever reason the public interest attendance, at 
least, with possible participation, is denied, the question is raised of 
the equitable and wide distribution of opportunities to electronically 
connect, observe, and participate in live-stream fashion with such 
meetings, discussions, and decision-making sessions, during what would 
otherwise be public meetings.

Procedures need to be considered and promulgated that will allow and 
facilitate ready and effective connection with and communication via 
appropriate electronic channels to such gatherings, whether in person or 
electronic.

Secret meetings in dark corners of the Interwebbed Intertubes have no 
place in what otherwise would be the refreshing, cleansing, and 
sanitizing sunshine of open meetings for public government.


Ken



On 3/20/20 3:25 PM, Moscow Cares wrote:
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>> *From:* City of Moscow <listserv at civicplus.com>
>> *Date:* March 20, 2020 at 3:15:25 PM PDT
>> *To:* MoscowCares at moscow.com
>> *Subject:* *Moscow Public Emergency Emergency Order*
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>>  Moscow Public Emergency Emergency Order
>> City of Moscow Logo
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>>   *PRESS RELEASE*
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>>     Moscow Public Emergency Emergency Order
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>> *March 20, 2020* *(Moscow, Idaho) --*On Mar. 20, 2020, the Moscow 
>> City Council held an emergency meeting to consider an Ordinance 
>> providing the Mayor of Moscow authority to establish a Public Health 
>> Emergency Order. Ordinance 2020-03 was approved unanimously 
>> establishing enactment of Title 1 Chapter 11- Moscow City Code 
>> Entitled Emergency Powers 
>> <https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/19197/Ordinance-2020-03-establishing-enactment-of-Title-1-Chapter-11--Moscow-City-Code-Entitled-Emergency-Powers>. 
>> <https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/19197/Ordinance-2020-03-establishing-enactment-of-Title-1-Chapter-11--Moscow-City-Code-Entitled-Emergency-Powers> 
>> Approval of this Ordinance was required to provide the Mayor the 
>> authority to declare emergency orders for seven days per instance. 
>> Once the Ordinance is approved, it is required by State Statute that 
>> the newly approved Ordinance be posted in five public places. The 
>> Council recessed until that posting was completed.
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>> Upon passage and proper notice of the Ordinance, the Council meeting 
>> was called back into session. Mayor Lambert then issued Public Health 
>> Emergency Order in Moscow, No. 20-01 Mass Gatherings, Restaurants, 
>> and Bars 
>> <https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/19199/Moscow-Public-Health-Emergency-Order-No-20-01>. 
>> The Council then considered and approved an extension of that Order 
>> by Resolution 2020-06 
>> <https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/19198/Moscow-Resolution-2020-06> authorizing 
>> the acceptance and extension of the Mayor's Public Health Emergency 
>> Order 20-01 beyond the 7-day period authorized by Ordinance to May 5, 
>> 2020.
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>> The limits of the Order are effective as of 12 a.m. on Mar. 21, 2020, 
>> (midnight Mar. 20) and include a restriction on gatherings of groups 
>> of more than ten persons within the boundaries of the City of Moscow. 
>> This prohibits dine-in service for bars and restaurants, but the 
>> Order does provide for curbside pick-up, take-out and drive-through 
>> of food and/or drink service. The City will work to make 
>> accommodations for pick up and parking as much as possible.
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>> These limitations and restrictions do not apply to businesses that 
>> serve fewer than ten individuals at a time, nor do they apply to 
>> grocery stores, gas stations, and pharmacies, nor to emergency 
>> overnight or day shelters that provide food service to persons 
>> experiencing homelessness.
>>
>> All documents may be found in their entirety on the City of Moscow's 
>> Coronavirus COVID-19 
>> <https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/783/Coronavirus-COVID-19.> web page at 
>> https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/783/Coronavirus-COVID-19.
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>> ###
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>> *Story Contact:* Gary J. Riedner, City Supervisor
>> *Phone: *208-883-7006
>> *Email: *griedner at ci.moscow.id.us
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>>   *City of Moscow *
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>> 206 E Third Street
>> Moscow, ID 83843
>> Contact: Gary J. Riedner, City Supervisor
>> Phone - 208.883.7006
>> Email - griedner at ci.moscow.id.us
>> Website - www.ci.moscow.id.us
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