Fairfield council to hold remote meeting through year's end
(Still frame from City of Fairfield/Graphic by Solano News Update)
City officials in Fairfield have decided to close City Hall to the public after tougher restrictions were imposed on Solano County earlier this week due to an increase in coronavirus infections.
The announcement was made in a social media post by Fairfield City Council Member Catherine Moy on Wednesday.
Starting Monday, City Hall will be closed to the public and city employees with offices there will return to working from home through the end of the year.
The city council will also return to conducting meetings via teleconference, Moy said. The council had been using an assembly hall at a school district office in recent weeks.
The decision to close City Hall appeared unrelated to an incident earlier this week in which activists interrupted a city council meeting in progress. The protest, assembled by the grassroots organization Fairfield Change, resulted in the arrest of eight adults and one minor.
“After last night’s meeting, some citizens complained that the city held an in-person meeting. A majority of us called in to the meeting from home,” Moy wrote on Wednesday.
The meeting was ultimately held at the school district office because Fairfield officials had issued public notices and published an agenda that said the meeting would be held in person. That decision pre-dated Solano County’s regression into a more-restrictive COVID response tier, Moy wrote.
Other essential city services, including the fire and police department, will continue to operate as normal.
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