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continue to meet remotely without complying with otherwise-applicable requirements in

the Brown Act related to remote/teleconference meetings by local agency legislative

bodies, provided that a state of emergency has been declared and the legislative body

determines that meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety

of attendees, and provided that the legislative body continues to make such findings at

least every 30 days during the term of the declared state of emergency; and

WHEREAS, this Committee has again reconsidered the circumstances of the

state of emergency and finds that the state of emergency continues to impact the ability

of members of the Committee to meet in person because there is a continuing threat of

COVID-19 to the community, and because Committee meetings have characteristics

that give rise to risks to health and safety of meeting participants (such as the increased

mixing associated with bringing together people from across the community, the need to

enable those who are immunocompromised or unvaccinated to be able to safely

continue to participate fully in public governmental meetings, and the challenges with

fully ascertaining and ensuring compliance with vaccination and other safety

recommendations at such meetings); and

WHEREAS, this Committee and several other County legislative bodies

typically meet in-person in public buildings where other essential governmental

functions take place, such that increasing the number of people present in those

buildings may impair the safety of the occupants; and

WHEREAS, in the interest of public health and safety, as affected by the state

of emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19, the Committee finds that this state of

emergency continues to directly impact the ability of members of this Committee to