Informational presentation on COVID-19.  City staff will be requesting direction from City Council for standards on notice of changes to COVID-19 mitigation requirements for special events. 

City staff to present information to City Council on current phase of the Re-Entry Plan and a recent request from event producers surrounding advance notice of changes to mitigation measures and/or capacity limitations for planned or upcoming events.

The City of Flagstaff is currently in Phase 3 of the City's Re-Entry Plan.  City staff will provide an overview of what is included in Phase 3 and provide information about what services are currently being provided in Recreation and Library City facilities. 

City Council's direction during the April 27, 2021 Council meeting was to allow special events to open up to full capacity beginning July 1st without limitation on the number of individuals who could participate.  Recently there has been a change in the pandemic where the number of cases, hospitalization and COVID-related deaths are rising.  Given this information, event producers have asked what kind of impact this could have on events that have already been planned or are in the process of being planned.  They were wondering if City Council made a change to expectations on COVID mitigation measures and/or capacity limitations, could there be a 72-hour notice period to event producers or could events planned to begin within 72 hours of the change be exempted from such changes.  City staff will be presenting this information to City Council for their discussion and direction.