Agenda - 06-07-2022; 8-a - Minutes

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50 1 County's staff creating this. She said the proposal is that we use the Intergovernmental Parks 2 as a model and specify the charge. She said there would be a new MOU created. 3 Chair Price said yes. She said the reference about the county doing a plan is because 4 they do not have one like the other jurisdictions have. 5 Commissioner Greene asked if Commissioner McKee was recommending a staff-only 6 working group. 7 Commissioner McKee said no. 8 Commissioner Greene clarified that it would be like the Intergovernmental Parks Work 9 Group with staff and then elected officials appointed. 10 Commissioner Hamilton said she would like to suspend the Climate Council for now, 11 because she is not sure she agrees with all of the recommendations in the presentation about 12 the charge. She said she would be happy to see an MOU. 13 14 Commissioner Hamilton made a motion to suspend the Climate Council and ask staff to 15 draft a memorandum of understanding with a restructured Climate Council based on the 16 Intergovernmental Parks Work Group and recognize the need for the county to create its own 17 climate action plan led by the county's sustainability coordinator and advised by and facilitated 18 through the Commission for the Environment. 19 Commissioner Bedford seconded the motion. 20 21 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 22 23 d. Discussion of Extensions to State of Emergency Declarations 24 This item was added at the beginning of the meeting. 25 26 Commissioner McKee said he heard there may be an extension of the local state of 27 emergency declaration until the end of June, which he disagreed with. He said he does not 28 think the numbers justify an extension. He said he wanted to put it out for consideration, and 29 he was fine if the Board wanted to discuss it at a future work session. He said he wanted to 30 propose updating the wording in the ordinance to state as follows: 31 "Emergency declarations once declared as per existing protocol by the Chair in 32 consultation with management that last more than 30 days will require Board of 33 Commissioner review and confirmation at the first formal business meeting of 34 the following month and each subsequent month in order to remain in effect." 35 Commissioner McKee said he did not think they had ever had an emergency last more 36 than two or three days. He said extending the review to 30 days is more reasonable than the 37 five days he originally suggested. He said he felt that to have an emergency declaration for 38 more than 30 days needs confirmation by the Board. He said he does not question any of the 39 commissioners, Chair, management or Emergency Services, but he felt that due to the impact 40 on the community, it needs to be a Board decision after 30 days. He said it could be as much 41 as 60 days depending on when it fell. He said that towns have ability to declare and impose 42 restrictions without the county being a part of it, so it should not be an impediment to the towns 43 deciding what is best for their own constituency. He said it was something that needed to be 44 looked at as a policy change, how does the county handle long-term emergency declarations. 45 Chair Price said it was timely because there is current state of emergency declaration 46 that could end on May 1St. She said there has been discussion about extending it, but that she 47 spoke with the County Attorney and Public Health Director and there may be a resolution to the 48 issue. She said the concern has been with transit workers and riders. She said right now there 49 is an emergency declaration, but the county lifted the mask mandate and satisfied FEMA 50 requirements. 51 John Roberts, County Attorney, said that his understanding is that this has come up for