The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Reno, Nevada · Las Vegas and Reno · Nevada
- Level
- City
- Authority
- RMC 8.34.060 (Emergency regulation and control) and Section 8 of the Reno Municipal Code
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13 (declaration); reported 2020-03-25 (read as 2020-03-13)
- End
- Not found in the period (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationTelework mandateCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- City departments and personnel
- the public using City services
- Functions reached
- predicate (EMER)
- OF city offices to telework
- CB city services scaled to de minimis levels
- Collection
- Las Vegas and Reno MET-LAS
Operative words
Dylan Shaver, Chief of Staff, gave a presentation summarizing COVID-19 Coronavirus actions. Reno Municipal Code allows for the Mayor, Assistant Mayor, or City Manager to order certain emergency measures 'if circumstances prohibit the timely action of the Council[,]' provided that the officer in question 'report their actions at the next regularly scheduled meeting.' The Mayor and Manager have taken several actions to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the Citizens of Reno, Reno personnel, and comply with directives from the Governor and guidance from the CDC. (Minutes, MET-LAS-024.) 'On March 13, 2020 Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, invoking the authority provided her in RMC, similarly declared an emergency in the City of Reno. The City Manager then took several actions... Staff whose presence on-site at City of Reno facilities was not critical or otherwise required were instructed to work from home. Departments were ordered to scale back services to de minimis levels' (staff report, MET-LAS-025).
Enforcement
City Manager's emergency authority
Notes
The Council took no action beyond accepting the report; Reno's Apr. 8, 2020 minutes record deferral of business-license fees for 'those business closed by various emergency orders'
Retrieval noteMinutes read at item D.1 (page 7); the staff report itself is in the 220-page council packet saved as MET-LAS-025 (pages 145-146; live-pdf; 40 MB; sha256 014c707b829072e506652d74888941a468e061eaa3ae060a65a71c2bebf8d77d). The Mayor's declaration document was not separately retrieved.