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PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NO. 1795, SERIES 2020 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Louisville, Colorado, held on June 23, 2020 at the hour of 6:00 p.m., at an electronic meeting, the City Council held a Public Hearing on the passage and adoption of a proposed emer- gency Ordinance No. 1795, Series 2020. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE EXTENDING TO AUGUST 30, 2020 •THE REQUIREMENT TO WEAR FACE COVERINGS WITHIN THE CRY INTRODUCED, READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED AS AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AND ORDERED PUBLISHED IN FULL this 23rd DAY OF JUNE, 2020. ATTEST: Meredyth Muth, City Clerk Published: Ashley Stolzmann, Mayor Daily Camera 6/28/20 ORDINANCE NO. 1795 SERIES 2020 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE EXTENDING TO AUGUST 30, 2020 THE REQUIREMENT TO WEAR FACE COVERINGS WITHIN THE CITY WHEREAS, the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic is a public health crisis that continues to cause widespread human and economic impacts within the City of Louisville; and WHEREAS, on April 26, 2020, Colorado Governor Jared Polis is- sued Executive Order D2020-044, introducing the "Safer at Home" phase of slightly relaxed regulation, which permitted some non- critical businesses to open with certain restrictions beginning May 1, 2020; and WHEREAS, in the Safer at Home order, Governor Polis provided that nothing in such order prevents a county or municipality from adopting more protective standards than those contained in the or- der, including but not limited to stay at home orders, mask wearing requirements in public, or additional protective measures and, if such local measures are adopted, they will become effective within the county or municipality without state approval; and WHEREAS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the "CDC") recommends the wearing of cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain, especially in areas of significant community -based trans- mission of COVID-19; and WHEREAS, on May 2, 2020, Boulder County Public Health issued an order requiring facial coverings in public where social distancing cannot be maintained, which order became effective on May 9, 2020 •and was to continue in effect until midnight on May 26, 2020; and WHEREAS, on May 5, 2020, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 1793, Series 2020, an Emergency Ordinance Requiring the Wear- ing of Face Coverings within the City, which ordinance became ef- fective at 11:59 p.m. on May 7, 2020 and continued in effect until midnight on June 5, 2020; and WHEREAS, on May 21, 2020, Boulder County Public Health ex- tended its order requiring facial coverings to June 30, 2020, and on June 2, 2020, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 1794, Series 2020, an Emergency Ordinance Extending to June 30, 2020 the Re- quirement to Wear Face Coverings within the City, which ordinance continues in effect until midnight on June 30, 2020; and WHEREAS, because COVID-19 is still present in the City and sur- rounding areas, the City Council finds its Emergency Ordinance Re- quiring the Wearing of Face Coverings within the City should again be extended until August 30, 2020; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and declares it has the power and authority to adopt this ordinance pursuant to C.R.S. § 31-15-103 (concerning municipal police powers), C.R.S. § 31-15-401 (concern- ing municipal police powers), C.R.S. § 31-15-501 (concerning munic- ipal authority to regulate businesses), Article XX of the Colorado Constitution (concerning municipal home rule), and the City of Louisville Home Rule Charter; and WHERFAS, the City Council finds that an emergency exists be- cause the preservation of public property, health, safety, and wel- fare requires the City to take immediate action to ensure the health of all City residents, public and private employees, business pa- trons, and to ensure recipients of government services are protect- ed to the greatest extent possible from transmission of COVID-19 while engaging in commercial and governmental transactions with- in the City during the Pandemic. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Section 7 of Ordinance No. 1794, Series 2020, is here- by amended to read as follows (words to be deleted stricken; words to be added underlined): Secton7. Effective Date This ordinance shall become ef- ective at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2020 and shall continue in 4,1 ffect until midnight on June3o;-2p20 August 30 2020, unless earlier erminated or extended. Section 2. Except as amended by this Ordinance, all provisions of Ordinance No. 1793, Series 2020 and Ordinance No. 1794, Series 2020, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms. Section 3. The City Council herewith finds, determines and de- clares that this ordinance is genuinely and urgently necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety, and wel- fare because the COVID-19 Pandemic has presented an urgent need to ensure and provide for the promotion of health and the suppres- sion of disease by preventina the spread of the virus within the Prairie Mountain Media, LLC PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT County of Boulder State of Colorado The undersigned, Elizabeth Maes , being first duly swom under oath, states and affirms as follows: 1. He/she is the legal Advertising Reviewer of Prairie Mountain Media LLC, publisher of the Daily Camera. 2. The Daily Camera is a newspaper of general circulation that has been published continuously and without interruption for at (east fifty-two weeks in Boulder County and meets the legal requisites for a legal newspaper under Colo. Rev. Stat. 24-70-103. 3. The notice that is attached hereto is a true copy, published in the Daily Camera in Boulder County on the following date(s): Jun 28, 2020 Signature Subscribed and sworn to me before me this '2C , /t day of (SEAL) SHAYLA NAJERA NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO NOTARY ID 20174031965 MY COMMISSION EXPIRES JULY 31, 2021 Account: Ad Number: Fee: 1048836 1716463 $190.08