Now a full week has passed since California’s “reopening,” with more and more signs pointing to a return to business as usual. Yesterday city staff provided the last of our regular City Council updates on the city’s COVID-19 response. The county held its last regular COVID-19 news conference last week and is now updating its COVID case data weekly instead of daily.
We have already reopened city offices to in-person services and expanded hours at our libraries. On July 6 we will reopen the Senior Center, including the dining room, where community members can once again enjoy each other’s company over a healthy hot meal. This significant milestone comes as city staff delivered the 60,000th “to go” meal in the Senior Center parking lot, something we started at the very beginning of the pandemic.
You might have seen some of the photos and video we have shared over the past year of staff dressing up with different themes on different days of the week and generally making this drive-through program a memorable part of everyone’s day (employees and seniors alike!). This is just one of many examples of the caring and creative ways city employees adapted during the pandemic.
We also shared so many stories of community members helping each other and finding ways to cope with stay-at-home orders and missing friends and family members.
