City repeals local disaster emergency related to COVID-19
Holiday Closures
In observance of the Veterans Day holiday, all administrative facilities and Age Well Centers will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Some facilities and services will be open.
Effective August 31 all emergency orders related to COVID-19 will have either expired or been repealed.
The City of Boulder declaration of local disaster emergency related to the COVID-19, signed on March 14, 2020, and extended by city council on March 16, 2020, is repealed in its entirety. The city has also repealed emergency order 2020-8, issued on March 24, 2020, which canceled all in-person boards and commissions meetings and emergency order 2021-2, issued on Sept. 2, 2021, which re-opened the COVID-19 Recovery Center (CRC).
Effective Aug. 31, 2022, the last five COVID related emergency orders will be repealed in their entirety. These orders include:
- Emergency order 2020-4 enforcing all state emergency orders in the City of Boulder, issued on March 14, 2020.
- Emergency order 2020-12 suspending domestic partnership fees, issued on April 2, 2020.
- Emergency order 2020-13 suspending or modifying provisions of ordinances/delegating authority to extend/impose city deadlines, issued on April 6, 2020.
- Emergency order 2020-19 suspending or modifying provisions of any ordinance related to public nuisances, issued in Nov. 6, 2020,
- Emergency order 2021-1 allowing daycare, education, supervision, and learning activities within a principal dwelling, issued Feb. 8, 2021.
City Manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde has concluded that these orders can be safely repealed because the threat to public health posed by COVID-19 has diminished.
“The last two and a half years have not been easy,” Rivera-Vandermyde said. “I look back with gratitude to our community for working together through the pandemic and now ahead with confidence in a brighter future thanks to all we have learned.”
City council will resume meeting in person on September 1, with the public welcomed back in October. City staff are creating a process for hybrid (virtual and in person) boards and commissions meetings to take place. In the short-term, these meetings will remain virtual while additional meeting spaces and technology are being installed. The city hopes to have all boards and commissions on a new hybrid format by the end of 2022.
While Boulder County is currently in the low community level, per CDC guidelines COVID-19 is still present in our community. People are protected best from severe COVID-19 illness when they stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines, which includes getting all recommended boosters when eligible.