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City of Brookings
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Brookings City Council
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Council Chambers6:00 PMTuesday, April 14, 2020
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economic base through innovative thinking, strategic planning, and proactive, fiscally responsible municipal
management.
6:00 PM SPECIAL MEETING
1. Call to Order / Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Record of Council Attendance.
3. Action to approve the agenda.
Action: Motion to Approve, Roll Call
4. Open Forum.
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5. Ordinance First Readings:
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Ordinance. Public Comment and Council discussion is permitted. The date for the
second reading is announced.
5.A.ORD 20-006 Introduction and First Reading on Ordinance 20-006, an Emergency
Ordinance to Stay-at-Home for All within the City of Brookings to Limit the
Spread of COVID-19 in the City of Brookings; and Other Restrictions within
the City of Brookings, South Dakota; Declaring an Emergency, Providing
for an Effective Date and a Time for Termination. Second Reading: to be
determined.
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April 14, 2020City Council Meeting Agenda
Memo
Ordinance
CISA List
Stay-at-Home Key Points
Attachments:
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7. Adjourn.
Brookings City Council: Keith Corbett, Mayor; Patty Bacon, Deputy Mayor
Council Members Leah Brink, Dan Hansen, Ope Niemeyer, Holly Tilton Byrne, and Nick Wendell
Council Staff:
Paul M. Briseno, City Manager Steven Britzman, City Attorney Bonnie Foster, City Clerk
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City of Brookings
Staff Report
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File #:ORD 20-006,Version:1
Introduction and First Reading on Ordinance 20-006, an Emergency Ordinance to Stay-at-Home for
All within the City of Brookings to Limit the Spread of COVID-19 in the City of Brookings; and Other
Restrictions within the City of Brookings, South Dakota; Declaring an Emergency, Providing for an
Effective Date and a Time for Termination. Second Reading: to be determined.
Summary:
The City of Brookings has numerous plans in place for operational and community response. In
March, the City Council passed the existing emergency ordinance that details what residents cannot
do. A Stay-at-Home ordinance was requested by Council as the next progression of response to the
COVID-19 spread. An ordinance is presented for discussion and potential first reading. Council has
the option of tabling the ordinance to a future date when such action is warranted. The specific
language detailing what residents can do is detailed in the attached ordinance and federal guidelines.
Background:
On March 23rd, the City Council enacted the existing Emergency Ordinance 20-005, which is set to
expire May 6th. This ordinance limits the operation of bars, restaurants, theaters, gyms, casinos,
indoor recreational facilities, salons, and barber shops. More recently, the ordinance was revised on
April 8th to address CDC social distancing recommendations. These efforts were put into place for
the best interests of public health for the Brookings community and designed to reduce the potential
spread of the COVID-19 virus. The existing ordinance defines what residents cannot do.
A Stay-at-Home Ordinance is requested for implementation should City Council feel existing
conditions warrant such measures. The Stay-at-Home Ordinance is more restrictive and limits activity
outside of the home to what is absolutely necessary. The first reading of the ordinance would occur
April 14th; however, rather than placing a second reading five (5) days later, a tabling can occur. The
final reading date would be determined by Council decision.
Recommendation:
This item was requested by Council. There is no recommendation by staff as the implementation
would be directed by the City Council.
Attachments:
Memo
Ordinance
CISA List
Stay-at-Home Key Points
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City Council Agenda Memo
From: Paul M. Briseno, City Manager
Council Meeting: April 14, 2020
Subject: Stay-at-Home Emergency Ordinance
Person(s) Responsible: Paul M. Briseno, City Manager
Summary:
The City of Brookings has numerous plans in place for operational and community
response. In March, the City Council passed the existing emergency ordinance that
details what residents cannot do. A Stay-at-Home ordinance was requested by Council
as the next progression of response to the COVID-19 spread. An ordinance is
presented for discussion and potential first reading. Council has the option of tabling
the ordinance to a future date when such action is warranted. The specific language
detailing what residents can do is detailed in the attached ordinance and federal
guidelines.
Background:
On March 23rd, the City Council enacted the existing Emergency Ordinance 20-005,
which was set to expire April 8th. This ordinance limited the operation of bars,
restaurants, theaters, gyms, casinos, indoor recreational facilities, salons , and barber
shops. More recently, the ordinance was revised on April 8th to address CDC social
distancing recommendations and extended until May 6th. These efforts were put into
place for the best interests of public health for the Brookings community and designed
to reduce the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus. The existing ordinance defines
what residents cannot do.
A Stay-at-Home Ordinance is requested for implementation should City Council feel
existing conditions warrant such measures. The Stay-at-Home Ordinance is more
restrictive and limits activity outside of the home to what is absolutely necessary. The
first reading of the ordinance would occur April 14th; however, rather than placing a
second reading five (5) days later, a tabling can occur. The final reading date would be
determined by Council decision.
Item Details:
The drafted Stay-at-Home Ordinance was developed utilizing municipal model
ordinances and state orders from across the nation. The language is augmented by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency (CISA).
The ordinance would help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by limiting non-essential
activities and contact with individuals outside of a person’s household. The legislation
details what residents can do. It outlines which activities, services, and businesses are
deemed essential and provides guidelines for what is allowed.
Residents can continue to shop at grocery stores, convenience stores and pharmacies
for essential items such as food and medication. Residents may also attend necessary
or urgent medical appointments. Residents are encouraged to go outside but must
practice social-distancing when visiting trails or other outdoor recreation areas. If social
distancing is not possible in these areas, they should be avoided.
Keys to remember while a Stay-at-Home Ordinance is in effect:
Stay home as much as possible unless completing essential activities.
You can shop for medicine, gas, repairs, and other essential goods and services.
You can go to a restaurant for takeout or delivery.
You can go to the doctor and take care of other essential needs.
You can exercise outside, including on sidewalks, trails and in public parks. You
can enjoy outdoor activities like long walks, bike rides and fishing. Green spaces
in parks are open, but City-owned playgrounds and other park equipment like
sport courts (basketball, etc.) are closed.
You can go to work in an essential job. Those jobs are defined the ordinance and
CISA List. No special letter or permit is needed to complete these activities.
You can drive, bike and walk. You don’t need special ID or a permit. The Police
will not be asking people to prove why they’re outside their home.
You can work from home if you work in a job defined as non-essential. Even if it’s
an essential job, employers are encouraged to allow employees to work from
home if possible.
Staff are allowed on site even at closed non-essential businesses for basic tasks
like maintenance and security.
You can check on someone in need.
Stay six (6) feet away from others, for your safety and theirs.
Full descriptions and additional details can be found in the attached Stay-at-Home
ordinance and CISA guidance on the essential workforce.
Legal Consideration:
None.
Financial Consideration:
None.
Options and Recommendation:
The City Council has the following options:
1. Approve as presented
2. Deny
3. Do nothing
This item was requested by Council. There is no recommendation by staff as the
implementation would be directed by the City Council.
Supporting Documentation:
1. Ordinance
2. CISA Guidelines
3. Stay-at-Home Talking Points
Emergency Ordinance 20-006
An Emergency Ordinance to Stay-at-Home for All within the City of Brookings to
Limit the Spread of COVID-19 in the City of Brookings; and Other Restrictions
within the City of Brookings, South Dakota; Declaring an Emergency, Providing
for an Effective Date and a Time for Termination.
Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Brookings, South Dakota as follows:
SECTION I.
Whereas, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a
worldwide pandemic as of March 11, 2020; and
Whereas, there is currently no vaccine or drug therapy available for COVID-19; and
Whereas, the President of the United States declared a national emergency concerning
the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 on March 13, 2020; and
Whereas, Governor Kristi Noem declared by Executive Order 2020 -04 and 2020-15 that
a public health State of Emergency exists in all counties in the State of South Dakota as
a result of COVID-19; and
Whereas, evidence shows that COVID-19 is now spreading across the United States
with the confirmation of community spread in several counties in South Dakota, which
indicates a significantly increasing risk of exposure and infection to Brookings residents
and creates an extreme public health risk; and
Whereas, local hospital administrators and health care providers have expressed
concerns that unless the spread of COVID-19 is limited, existing health care facilities
may be insufficient to care for those who become sick; and
Whereas, this Ordinance is enacted in accordance with the advice and expertise of
health professionals of Brookings Health System, and the measures herein are the least
restrictive measures necessary to protect the public from the COVID-19 pandemic and
prevent the overwhelming of the community’s medical resources; and
Whereas, elderly people and those who are vulnerable as a result of illness should take
additional precautions. People at high risk of severe illness, including elderly people and
those who are sick are urged to stay in their residence to the extent possible except as
necessary to seek medical care; and
Whereas, this Ordinance is enacted on the advice of leading national health authorities
that no locality, regardless of whether they have already identified COVID-19 cases, will
be immune from the spread of the virus, scientific evidence regarding the most effective
approaches to slow the transmission of communicable diseases generally and COVID -
19 specifically; as well as best practices as currently known and available to protect
vulnerable members of the public from avoidable risk of serious illness or death
resulting from exposure to COVID-19. Although most individuals who contract COVID-
19 do not become seriously ill, persons with mild symptoms a nd asymptomatic persons
with COVID-19 may place members of the public and especially other vulnerable
members of the public at significant risk; and
Whereas, based on the foregoing concerns, the City Council has determined that the
closure of venues and facilities where members of the public congregate within the City
is critical to minimize the risk of expedited transmission that would, if unimpeded, place
an overwhelming burden and have devastating impacts on the community’s healthcare
systems, facilities, supplies, and providers; and
Whereas, this Ordinance, in conjunction with Ordinance 20-005 will further reduce the
likelihood that most high-risk individuals will be exposed to COVID-19, and it will thereby
slow the spread of COVID-19 in our community. By reducing the spread of COVID-19,
this Ordinance will help preserve the City’s critical healthcare capacity.
1. Each of the provisions of this Ordinance are effective immediately upon adoption
and shall continue until 11:59 p.m. on May 6, 2020.
2. All individuals currently within the City of Brookings are ordered to stay at home,
their place of residence, or current place of abode (hereinafter "residence")
except as set forth herein. To the extent individuals are using shared or outdoor
spaces when outside their residence, they must at all times and as much as
reasonably possible, maintain social distancing of at least six (6) feet from any
other person, with the exception of family or household members, consistent with
the Social Distancing Requirements defined herein. All persons may leave their
homes or place of residence only for Essential Activities all as defined below.
Individuals whose residences are unsafe or become unsafe, such as victims of
domestic violence, are permitted and urged to leave their home and stay at a
safe alternative location.
3. Non-essential businesses and operations must cease. All businesses and
operations in the City of Brookings, except Essential Businesses and Operations
as defined below, are required to cease all activities within the City except
Minimum Basic Operations, as defined below.
4. Prohibited Activities. All public and private gatherings of any number of people
except those from a single household or living unit are prohibited, except for the
limited purposes permitted by this Ordinance. Any gathering of more than ten
people is prohibited unless exempted by this Ordinance. Nothing in this
Ordinance prohibits the gathering of members of a single household or
residence.
All places of indoor public amusement, including, locations with museums,
bowling alleys, movie and other theaters, concert and music halls shall be
closed.
5. Essential Activities Permitted. Persons may leave their residences, returning
immediately thereafter, and travel to perform any of the following “Essential
Activities” and workers may enter the City of Brookings to perform any of the
following “Essential Activities”:
a. For Health and Safety: To engage in activities or perform tasks essential to
their health and safety, or to the health and safety of their family or household
members (including, but not limited to, pets) such as, by way of example only
and without limitation, obtaining medical supplies or medication, visiting a
health care professional, or obtaining supplies they need to work from home.
b. For Supplies and Services: To obtain necessary services or supplies for
themselves and their family or household members, or to deliver those
services or supplies to others, such as, by way of example only and without
limitation, canned food, dry goods, fresh fruit and vegetables, pet supply,
fresh meats, fish, and poultry, and any other household consumer products,
and products necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential
operation of residences.
c. For Outdoor Activity: To engage in outdoor activity, provided the individuals
comply with Social Distancing Requirements defined herein such as, by way
of example and without limitation, walking, hiking or running.
d. For Certain Types of Work: i) To perform work at an Essential Business and
ii) to perform Minimum Basic Operations at a business not defined as an
Essential Business.
e. To Care of Others: To care for a family member or pet in another household.
6. Definitions Pertaining to Essential Business. Definitions for the purpose of this
Ordinance are defined as follows:
a. Essential Businesses: In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, it is
necessary to reduce the instances where individuals interact with one another
in a manner inconsistent with the Social Distancing Requirements as defined
below. Many of those interactions occur at work. At the same time, it is
necessary that certain businesses essential to the response to COVID-19,
necessary to the infrastructure of the City of Brookings, State of South
Dakota, or United States of America or imperative for the day-to-day life
residents, remain open.
For purposes of this Ordinance, an Essential Business includes the following
businesses:
i. Healthcare Operations: Including hospitals, clinics, dentists (for
emergency care only), pharmacies, pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies, other healthcare facilities, health-related
laboratory services, healthcare suppliers, home healthcare service
providers, physical therapy, and chiropractic services and massage
therapy, mental health providers, or any related and/or ancillary
healthcare services. “Healthcare Operations” also includes
veterinary care and all healthcare services provided to animals.
This exemption shall be construed broadly to avoid any impacts to
the delivery of healthcare, broadly defined. “Healthcare Operations”
does not include fitness, exercise gyms, one-on-one or group
trainers.
ii. Essential Governmental Functions: All services needed to ensure
the continuing operation of the government agencies and the
maintenance of public property. All Essential Governmental
Functions shall be performed in compliance with Social Distancing
Requirements as defined herein, to the greatest extent possible.
The Courthouse and all legal matters held therein are essential
governmental functions.
iii. Essential Infrastructure: Includes, but is not limited to, public works,
construction, construction of housing or buildings, airport
operations, water, sewer, gas, electrical, roads/highways,
pathways, public transportation, solid waste collection and removal,
internet, and telecommunications systems (including the provision
of essential global, national and local infrastructure for computing
services, business infrastructure, communications, and web-based
services), provided that they carry out these services or that work in
compliance with Social Distancing Requirements as defined by this
Ordinance, to the greatest extent possible.
iv. Human Services Operations: For the purposes of this Ordinance,
individuals may leave their residence to work for or obtain any
Human Services Operations. Human Services Operations includes,
but is not limited to: long-term care facilities; day care centers, day
care group homes; residential settings and shelters for adults,
seniors, children, and/or people with developmental disabilities,
intellectual disabilities, substance use disorders, and/or mental
illness; transitional facilities; home-based settings to provide
services to individuals with physical, intellectual, and/ or
developmental disabilities, seniors, adults, and children; field offices
that provide and help to determine eligibility for basic needs
including food, cash assistance, medical coverage, child care,
vocational services, rehabilitation services, develop mental centers,
adoption agencies; businesses that provide food, shelter, and
social services, and other necessities of life for economically
disadvantaged individuals, individuals with physical, intellectual,
and/or developmental disabilities, or otherwis e needy individuals.
v. CISA List: On March 28, 2020, the US. Department of Homeland
Security, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
issued a Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical
Infrastructure Workers During Response. The definition of Essential
Businesses and Operations includes all the workers identified in
that Memorandum and any subsequent amendments thereto.
vi. Stores That Sell Groceries and Medicine: Grocery stores, farmer’s
markets, food banks, convenience stores, and other establishments
engaged in the retail sale of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits
and vegetables, pet supplies, fresh meats, fish, poultry, and any
other household consumer products (such as cleaning and
personal care products) and specifically includes their supply chain
and administrative support operations. This includes stores that sell
groceries, medicine, including medication not requiring a medical
prescription, and also sell other non-grocery products, wholesale
items and products necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation,
and essential operation of residences.
vii. Food and Beverage Production and Agriculture: Food and
beverage manufacturing, production, processing, and cultivation,
including greenhouses, farming and livestock operations, baking,
fishing, and other production agriculture, including cultivation
marketing, production, and distribution of animals and goods for
consumption; and businesses that provide food, shelter, and other
necessities of life for animals, including animal shelters, rescues,
kennels, and adoption facilities.
viii. Charitable, Religious and Social Services: Businesses and
organizations that provide food, shelter, social services, religious
and pastoral services, and other necessities of life for spirituality,
economically disadvantaged, people with disabilities and persons
who require assistance and protection, and individuals who need
assistance as a result of this emergency.
ix. Media: Newspapers, television, radio, and other media services.
x. Gas stations and businesses needed for transportation: Gas
stations and auto supply, auto repair, farm equipment, construction
equipment, boat repair, bicycle shops, and auto-related facilities.
xi. Financial and Insurance Institutions: Banks, credit unions,
appraisers, title companies, insurance companies, and related
financial and insurance institutions.
xii. Hardware and supply stores: Hardware stores and businesses that
sell electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and ventilation
material.
xiii. Sport Stores: Sporting goods stores.
xiv. Critical Trades: Plumbers, electricians, exterminators, internet or
broadband providers, cleaning and janitorial staff for commercial and
governmental properties, security staff, operating engineers, HV/AC,
painting, cleaning services and others who provide services that are
necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation
of residences, Essential Activities, and Essential Businesses.
xv. Mail, Post, Shipping, Logistics, Delivery, and Pick-Up Services: Post
offices and other businesses that provide shipping and delivery
services, and businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, alcoholic
and non-alcoholic beverages, and goods through commercial or
government channels.
xvi. Educational Institutions: Public and private daycare through 12th grade
schools, colleges, and universities.
xvii. Laundry Services: Laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry service
providers.
xviii. Restaurants for Consumption Off -Premises: Restaurants and other
facilities that prepare and serve food, but only for delivery or curbside
carry out, as set forth in Brookings Ordinance No. 20-005.
xix. Transportation: Airports, taxis, transportation network providers,
commercial and public transportation and logistics providers, and other
private transportation providers providing transportation services
necessary for Essential Activities and other purposes expressly set
forth herein.
xx. Home-Based Care: Businesses and organizations that provide home-
based care for seniors, adults, and children, including people with
developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse
disorders or mental illness, including nannies who may travel to the
individual’s home to provide care.
xxi. Residential Facilities and Shelters: Residential facilities and shelters
for seniors, adults, and children, including people with developmental
disabilities, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse disorders or
mental illness, including nannies who may travel to the individual’s
home to provide care.
xxii. Professional Services: Professional services such as architecture,
engineering, legal, accounting, and other professional services,
including those professional services provided for Essential Business.
xxiii. Manufacture, distribution, and supply chain for critical products and
industries: Manufacturing companies, distributors, and supply chain
companies producing and supplying essential products and services in
and for industries such as pharmaceutical, technology, biotechnology,
healthcare, chemicals and sanitization, waste pickup and disposal,
agriculture, food and beverage, transportation, energy, steel and steel
products, petroleum and fuel, mining, construction, national defense,
communications, as well as products used by other Essential
Businesses and Operations.
xxiv. Funeral Services: Funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoriums,
cemeteries, graveyards and other related services.
xxv. Off-sale Alcoholic Beverage Licensees: Businesses with a liquor, malt
beverage and/or wine license for off-sale consumption.
xxvi. Supplies to work from home: Businesses that sell, manufacture, or
supply products needed for people to work from home.
xxvii. Supplies for Essential Businesses and Operations: Businesses that
sell, manufacture, or supply other Essential Businesses and
Operations with the support or materials necessary to operate,
including computers, audio and video electronics, household
appliances, IT and telecommunication equipment, hardware, paints,
flat glass, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and ventilation
material, sanitary equipment, personal hygiene products, food, food
additives, ingredients and components, medical and orthopedic
equipment, optics and photography equipment, diagnostics, food and
beverages, chemicals, soaps, and detergent, and firearm and
ammunition suppliers and retailers for the purposes of safety and
security.
xxviii. Overnight Lodging: Overnight lodging and short-term lodging facilities
(including but not limited to hotels, motels, condos, townhomes, single-
family residences, guest homes, RV parks, and all camping on public
or private lands) within the City of Brookings, South Dakota that check-
in, rent, or lease to Essential Visitors and Primary Resident s.
xxix. Businesses Excluded from the List: Businesses excluded from the list
of Essential Businesses set forth above that believe they may be
essential may direct requests to be included to the City Manager of the
City of Brookings. The City Manager may grant such request if it
determines that it is in the best interest of the community to have the
business continue operations in order to properly respond to this
COVID-19 pandemic.
b. Essential Visitor means any individual renting, lodging, or camping for an
amount of time less than thirty days for the purposes of work within the City of
Brookings.
c. Primary Residents are individuals who:
i. Rent, lodge, or camp for periods of thirty days or more; or
ii. No matter the length of stay, are in the United States on a Visa or
similar immigration status; or
iii. No matter the length of stay, whose primary address is within the City
of Brookings; or
iv. No matter the length of stay, those who are employed at a business in
Brookings County, South Dakota.
d. Minimum Basic Operations includes the following, providing that employees
comply with the Social Distancing Requirements as defined herein, to the
extent possible, while carrying out such operations:
i. The minimum necessary activities to maintain the value of the business’s
inventory, ensure security, process payroll and employee benefits, or for
related functions.
ii. The minimum necessary activities to facilitate employees of the business
being able to continue to work remotely from their residences.
e. Social Distancing Requirements includes maintaining at least six-foot
distance, washing hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds as
frequently as possible or using hand sanitizer, covering coughs or sneezes
(into the sleeve or elbow, not hands), regularly cleaning high touch surfaces
and not shaking hands.
7. For clarity, businesses and organizations that are not defined herein as an
Essential Business may also continue operations consisting exclusively of
employees or contractors performing activities remotely and/or consisting of
Minimum Basic Operations. All Essential Businesses are encouraged to remain
open. To the greatest extent feasible, Essential Businesses shall comply with
Social Distancing Requirements as defined herein for both employees and
members of the public, including, but not limited to, when any customers are
standing in line.
8. That residents of the City of Brookings who leave the geographic area of the
State of South Dakota and any visitors, excepting workers, that visit Brokings,
South Dakota from that same geographic area shall limit movement and
gathering with other individuals who are not their immediate family upon their
return to the City of Brookings. Persons may leave their residences only to
perform any of the Essential Activities, as defined above, for a period of self -
quarantine lasting at least fourteen days or self -isolation until any fever or
respiratory illness has resolved and they have returned to norma l health for at
least three days, whichever is longer.
SECTION II.
The provisions of this Ordinance are effective through 11:59 p.m. on May 6, 2020
unless sooner repealed, after which time they shall become null and void.
SECTION III.
If any section, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason
held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall
be deemed a separate distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance.
SECTION IV.
This ordinance is intended to supplement Ordinance No. 20 -005 which shall remain in
full force and effect. This ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City and shall become effective
immediately upon adoption following a second reading of this ordinance.
Dated this 14th day of April, 2020.
CITY OF BROOKINGS
_______________________________
ATTEST: Keith W. Corbett, Mayor
_______________________________
Bonnie Foster, City Clerk
(SEAL)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Office of the Director
Washington, DC 20528
March 28, 2020
ADVISORY MEMORANDUM ON IDENTIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS DURING COVID-19 RESPONSE
FROM: Christopher C. Krebs
Director
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
As the Nation comes together to slow the spread of COVID-19, on March 16th the
President issued updated Coronavirus Guidance for America that highlighted the
importance of the critical infrastructure workforce.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) executes the Secretary of
Homeland Security’s authorities to secure critical infrastructure. Consistent with these
authorities, CISA has developed, in collaboration with other federal agencies, State and
local governments, and the private sector, an “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce”
advisory list. This list is intended to help State, local, tribal and territorial officials as they work to
protect their communities, while ensuring continuity of functions critical to public health
and safety, as well as economic and national security. Decisions informed by this list
should also take into consideration additional public health considerations based on the
specific COVID-19-related concerns of particular jurisdictions.
This list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directive
or standard. Additionally, this advisory list is not intended to be the exclusive list of
critical infrastructure sectors, workers, and functions that should continue during
the COVID-19 response across all jurisdictions. Individual jurisdictions should add
or subtract essential workforce categories based on their own requirements and
discretion.
The advisory list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are
typically essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing
operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers,
working construction, and performing operational functions, among others. It also
includes workers who support crucial supply chains and enable functions for critical
infrastructure. The industries they support represent, but are not limited to, medical and
healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and
agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement,
and public works.
State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are responsible for implementing and
executing response activities, including decisions about access and reentry, in their
communities, while the Federal Government is in a supporting role. Officials should use
their own judgment in issuing implementation directives and guidance. Similarly, while
adhering to relevant public health guidance, critical infrastructure owners and operators
are expected to use their own judgement on issues of the prioritization of business
processes and workforce allocation to best ensure continuity of the essential goods and
services they support. All decisions should appropriately balance public safety, the health
and safety of the workforce, and the continued delivery of essential critical infrastructure
services and functions. While this advisory list is meant to help public officials and
employers identify essential work functions, it allows for the reality that some workers
engaged in activity determined to be essential may be unable to perform those functions
because of health-related concerns.
CISA will continue to work with our partners in the critical infrastructure community to
update this advisory list if necessary as the Nation’s response to COVID-19 evolves.
Should you have questions about this list, please contact CISA at CISA.CAT@cisa.dhs.gov.
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Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce:
Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19
Response
Version 2.0 (March 28, 2020)
THE IMPORTANCE OF ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS
Functioning critical infrastructure is imperative during the response to the COVID-19 emergency for both public health
and safety as well as community well-being. Certain critical infrastructure industries have a special responsibility in these
times to continue operations.
This advisory guidance and accompanying list are intended to support state, local, tribal, territorial and industry partners
in identifying the critical infrastructure sectors and the essential workers needed to maintain the services and functions
Americans depend on daily and that need to be able to operate resiliently during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
This document gives advisory guidance on defining essential critical infrastructure workers. Promoting the ability of such
workers to continue to work during periods of community restriction, access management, social distancing, or closure
orders/directives is crucial to community resilience and continuity of essential functions.
CISA will continually solicit and accept feedback on the list and will evolve the list in response to stakeholder feedback.
We will also use our various stakeholder engagement mechanisms to work with partners on how they are using this list
and share those lessons learned and best practices broadly. Feedback can be sent to CISA.CAT@CISA.DHS.GOV.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
This list was developed in consultation with federal agency partners, industry experts, and State and local officials, and
is based on several key principles:
1. Response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic are locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.
2. Everyone should follow guidance from the CDC, as well as State and local government officials, regarding
strategies to limit disease spread.
3. Workers should be encouraged to work remotely when possible and focus on core business activities. In-
person, non-mandatory activities should be delayed until the resumption of normal operations.
4. When continuous remote work is not possible, businesses should enlist strategies to reduce the likelihood of
spreading the disease. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, separating staff by off-setting shift hours
or days and/or social distancing. These steps can preserve the workforce and allow operations to continue.
5. All organizations should implement their business continuity and pandemic plans or put plans in place if they
do not exist. Delaying implementation is not advised and puts at risk the viability of the business and the
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health and safety of the employees.
6. Reliance on technology and just-in-time supply chains means that certain workers must be able to access
certain sites, facilities, and assets to ensure continuity of functions.
7. Government employees, such as emergency managers, and the business community need to establish and
maintain lines of communication.
8. When government and businesses engage in discussions about essential critical infrastructure workers, they
need to consider the implications of business operations beyond the jurisdiction where the asset or facility is
located. Businesses can have sizeable economic and societal impacts as well as supply chain dependencies
that are geographically distributed.
9. Whenever possible, jurisdictions should align access and movement control policies related to critical
infrastructure workers to lower the burden of workers crossing jurisdictional boundaries.
IDENTIFYING ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS
The following list of identified essential critical infrastructure workers is intended to be overly inclusive reflecting the
diversity of industries across the United States.
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HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH
• Workers who perform critical clinical research, development, and testing needed for COVID-19 response.
• Healthcare providers and Caregivers including physicians, dentists, psychologists, mid-level practitioners, nurses
and assistants, infection control and quality assurance personnel, pharmacists, physical and occupational
therapists and assistants, social workers, optometrists, speech pathologists, chiropractors, and diagnostic and
therapeutic technicians and technologists.
• Hospital and laboratory personnel (including accounting, administrative, admitting and discharge, engineering,
epidemiological, source plasma and blood donation, food service, housekeeping, medical records, information
technology and operational technology, nutritionists, sanitarians, respiratory therapists, etc.).
• Workers in other medical and biomedical facilities (including Ambulatory Health and Surgical, Blood Banks,
Clinics, Community Mental Health, Comprehensive Outpatient rehabilitation, End Stage Renal Disease, Health
Departments, Home Health care, Hospices, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Nursing Care Facilities, Organ
Pharmacies, Procurement Organizations, Psychiatric Residential, Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified
Health Centers, and retail facilities specializing in medical good and supplies).
• Manufacturer workers for health manufacturing (including biotechnology companies), materials and parts
suppliers, logistics and warehouse operators, distributors of medical equipment (including those who test and
repair), personal protective equipment (PPE), isolation barriers, medical gases, pharmaceuticals (including
materials used in radioactive drugs), dietary supplements, blood and blood products, vaccines, testing materials,
laboratory supplies, cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies, and tissue and paper towel
products.
• Public health / community health workers, including those who compile, model, analyze and communicate public
health information.
• Blood and plasma donors and the employees of the organizations that operate and manage related activities.
• Workers who manage health plans, billing, and health information, who cannot practically work remotely.
• Workers who conduct community-based public health functions, conducting epidemiologic surveillance,
compiling, analyzing and communicating public health information, who cannot practically work remotely.
• Workers performing information technology and cybersecurity functions at healthcare and public health facilities,
who cannot practically work remotely.
• Workers performing security, incident management, and emergency operations functions at or on behalf of
healthcare entities including healthcare coalitions, who cannot practically work remotely.
• Pharmacy employees necessary to maintain uninterrupted prescription filling.
• Workers performing mortuary funeral, cremation, burial, cemetery, and related services, including funeral homes,
crematoriums, cemetery workers, and coffin makers.
• Workers who coordinate with other organizations to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification,
transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death;
and facilitate access to mental/behavioral health services to the family members, responders, and survivors of
an incident.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS
• Public, private, and voluntary personnel (front line and management) in emergency management, law
enforcement, fire and rescue services, emergency medical services, and private security, to include public and
private hazardous material responders, air medical service providers (pilots and supporting technicians),
corrections, and search and rescue personnel.
• 911 call center employees and Public Safety Answering Points who can’t perform their duties remotely.
• Fusion Center employees.
• Workers – including contracted vendors -- who maintain, manufacture, or supply equipment and services
supporting law enforcement emergency service and response operations (to include electronic security and life
safety security personnel).
• Workers supporting the manufacturing of safety equipment and uniforms for law enforcement, public safety
personnel, and first responder.
• Workers supporting the operation of firearm or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers,
distributors, and shooting ranges.
• Public agency workers responding to abuse and neglect of children, elders, and dependent adults.
• Workers who support weather disaster / natural hazard mitigation and prevention activities.
• Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
• Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies, convenience stores, and other retail (including unattended and
vending) that sells human food, animal/pet food and pet supply, and beverage products, including retail
customer support service and information technology support staff necessary for online orders, pickup and
delivery.
• Restaurant carry-out and quick serve food operations, including dark kitchen and food prep centers, and carry-
out and delivery food employees.
• Food manufacturer employees and their supplier employees—to include those employed in food ingredient
production and processing facilities; livestock, poultry, seafood slaughter facilities; pet and animal feed
processing facilities; human food facilities producing by-products for animal food; beverage production facilities;
and the production of food packaging.
• Farmers, farm workers, and agribusiness support services to include those employed in auction and sales: grain
and oilseed handling, processing and distribution; animal food, feed, and ingredient production, packaging, and
distribution; manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of veterinary drugs; truck delivery and transport; farm
and fishery labor needed to produce our food supply domestically and for export.
• Farmers, farm workers, support service workers, and their supplier employees to include those engaged in
producing and harvesting field crops; commodity inspection; fuel ethanol facilities; biodiesel and renewable
diesel facilities; storage facilities; and other agricultural inputs.
• Employees and firms supporting the distribution of food, feed, and beverage and ingredients used in these
products, including warehouse workers, vendor- managed inventory controllers and blockchain managers.
• Workers supporting the sanitation and pest control of all food manufacturing processes and operations from
wholesale to retail.
• Employees in cafeterias used to feed employees, particularly employee populations sheltered against COVID-19.
• Workers in animal diagnostic and food testing laboratories in private industries and in institutions of higher
education.
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• Government, private, and non-governmental organizations’ workers essential for food assistance programs
(including school lunch programs) and government payments.
• Employees of companies engaged in the production, storage, transport, and distribution of chemicals,
medicines, vaccines, and other substances used by the food and agriculture industry, including seeds,
pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals, enrichments, and other agricultural production aids.
• Animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health (including those involved in supporting
emergency veterinary or livestock services); raising of animals for food; animal production operations; livestock
markets; slaughter and packing plants, manufacturers, renderers, and associated regulatory and government
workforce.
• Transportation supporting animal agricultural industries, including movement of animal medical and reproductive
supplies and materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed ingredients, feed, and bedding, live animals, animal
by-products, and deceased animals for disposal.
• Workers who support sawmills and the manufacture and distribution of fiber and forest products, including, but
not limited to timber, paper, and other wood and fiber products.
• Employees engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other infrastructure necessary for
agricultural production and distribution.
ENERGY
• Workers supporting the energy sector, regardless of the energy source (including but not limited to nuclear,
fossil, hydroelectric, or renewable), segment of the system, or infrastructure the worker is involved in, or who are
needed to monitor, operate, engineer, and maintain the reliability, safety, environmental health, and physical
and cyber security of the energy system.
• Energy/commodity trading/scheduling/marketing functions, who can't perform their duties remotely.
• IT and OT technology for essential energy sector operations including support workers, customer service
operations; energy management systems, control systems, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA
systems, and energy sector entity data centers; cybersecurity engineers; and cybersecurity risk management.
• Workers supporting the energy sector through renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited to
wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen, ocean, geothermal, and/or hydroelectric), including those supporting
construction, manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers and security staff involved in nuclear re-fueling operations.
• Providing services related to energy sector fuels (including, but not limited, petroleum (crude oil), natural
gas, propane, natural gas liquids, other liquid fuels, nuclear, and coal), supporting the mining, processing,
manufacturing, construction, logistics, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, security, waste
disposal and storage, and monitoring of support for resources.
• Environmental remediation/monitoring, limited to immediate critical needs technicians.
• Manufacturing and distribution of equipment, supplies, and parts necessary to maintain production, maintenance,
restoration, and service at energy sector facilities (across all energy sector segments).
Electricity industry:
• Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore, or are involved in the development, transportation, fuel procurement,
expansion, or operation of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call
centers, utility workers, engineers, retail electricity, constraint maintenance, and fleet maintenance technicians-
who cannot perform their duties remotely.
• Workers at coal mines, production facilities, and those involved in manufacturing, transportation, permitting,
operation/maintenance and monitoring at coal sites which is critical to ensuring the reliability of the electrical
system.
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• Workers who produce, process, ship and handle coal used for power generation and manufacturing.
• Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation to include but not limited to, the broader
nuclear supply chain, parts to maintain nuclear equipment, fuel manufacturers and fuel components used in
the manufacturing of fuel.
• Workers at renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited to wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen,
geothermal, and/or hydroelectric), including those supporting construction, manufacturing, transportation,
permitting, operation/maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers at generation, transmission, and electric black start facilities.
• Workers at Reliability Coordinator, Balancing Authorities, and primary and backup Control Centers, including but
not limited to independent system operators, regional transmission organizations, and local distribution control
centers.
• Mutual assistance personnel which may include workers from outside of the state or local jurisdiction.
• Vegetation management and traffic control for supporting those crews.
• Environmental remediation/monitoring workers limited to immediate critical needs technicians.
• Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians.
• Essential support personnel for electricity operations.
• Generator set support workers such as diesel engineers used in power generation including those providing fuel.
Petroleum industry:
• Workers for onshore and offshore petroleum drilling operations; platform and drilling construction and
maintenance; transportation (including helicopter operations), maritime transportation, supply, and dredging
operations; maritime navigation; well stimulation, intervention, monitoring, automation and control, extraction,
production; processing; waste disposal, and maintenance, construction, and operations.
• Workers for crude oil, petroleum and petroleum product storage and transportation, including pipeline,
marine transport, terminals, rail transport, storage facilities and racks and roadtransport for use as end-
use fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and heating fuels or feedstocks for chemical
manufacturing.
• Petroleum and petroleum product security operations center employees and workers who support
maintenance and emergency response services.
• Petroleum and petroleum product operations control rooms/centers and refinery facilities.
• Retail fuel centers such as gas stations and truck stops, and the distribution systems that support them.
• Supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to, pipeline construction.
Natural Gas, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL), Propane, and other liquid fuels
• Workers who support onshore and offshore drilling operations, platform and drilling construction and
maintenance; transportation (including helicopter operations); maritime transportation, supply, and dredging
operations; maritime navigation; natural gas and natural gas liquid production, processing, extraction, storage
and transportation; well intervention, monitoring, automation and control; waste disposal, and maintenance,
construction, and operations.
• Transmission and distribution pipeline workers, including compressor stations and any other required,
operations maintenance, construction, and support for natural gas, natural gas liquid, propane, and other
liquid fuels.
• Natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel processing plants, including construction, maintenance, and
support operations.
• Natural gas processing plants workers, and those that deal with natural gas liquids.
• Workers who staff natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel security operations centers,
operations dispatch and control rooms/centers, and emergency response and customer emergencies (including
leak calls) operations.
• Drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for
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chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity generation.
• Dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer emergencies, including propane
leak calls.
• Propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centers.
• Propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel distribution centers.
• Propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centers.
• Supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to, pipeline construction.
• Ethanol and biofuel production, refining, and distribution.
• Workers in fuel sectors (including, but not limited to nuclear, coal, and gas types and liquid fuels)
supporting the mining, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, and
monitoring of support for resources.
WATER AND WASTEWATER
Employees needed to operate and maintain drinking water and wastewater/drainage infrastructure, including:
• Operational staff at water authorities.
• Operational staff at community water systems.
• Operational staff at wastewater treatment facilities.
• Workers repairing water and wastewater conveyances and performing required sampling or monitoring,
including field staff.
• Operational staff for water distribution and testing.
• Operational staff at wastewater collection facilities.
• Operational staff and technical support for SCADA Control systems.
• Chemical and equipment suppliers to water and wastewater systems and personnel protection.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting water and wastewater operations.
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
• Employees supporting or enabling transportation functions, including truck drivers, bus drivers, dispatchers,
maintenance and repair technicians, warehouse workers, truck stop and rest area workers, Department of
Motor Vehicle (DMV) employees, towing/recovery services, roadside assistance workers, intermodal
transportation personnel, and workers who maintain and inspect infrastructure (including those that require
cross-jurisdiction travel).
• Workers supporting the distribution of food, pharmaceuticals (including materials used in radioactive drugs) and
other medical materials, fuels, chemicals needed for water or water treatment and energy Maintenance and
operation of essential highway infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and tunnels (e.g., traffic operations
centers and moveable bridge operators).
• Employees of firms providing services, supplies, and equipment that enable warehouse and operations, including
cooling, storing, packaging, and distributing products for wholesale or retail sale or use. Includes cold- and
frozen-chain logistics for food and critical biologic products.
• Mass transit workers and providing critical transit services and/or performing critical or routine maintenance to
mass transit infrastructure or equipment.
• Employees supporting personal and commercial transportation services – including taxis, delivery services,
vehicle rental services, bicycle maintenance and car-sharing services, and transportation network providers.
• Workers responsible for operating and dispatching passenger, commuter and freight trains and maintaining rail
infrastructure and equipment.
• Maritime transportation workers, including dredgers, port workers, mariners, ship crewmembers, ship pilots and
tug boat operators, equipment operators (to include maintenance and repair, and maritime-specific medical
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providers), ship supply, chandler, and repair companies.
• Workers including truck drivers, railroad employees and contractors, maintenance crew, and cleaners
supporting transportation of chemicals, hazardous, medical, and waste materials to support critical infrastructure,
capabilities, functions, and services, including specialized carriers, crane and rigging industry workers.
• Bus drivers and workers who provide or support intercity, commuter and charter bus service in support of other
essential services or functions.
• Automotive repair, maintenance, and transportation equipment manufacturing and distribution facilities
(including those who repair and maintain electric vehicle charging stations).
• Transportation safety inspectors, including hazardous material inspectors and accident investigator inspectors.
• Manufacturers and distributors (to include service centers and related operations) of packaging materials,
pallets, crates, containers, and other supplies needed to support manufacturing, packaging staging and
distribution operations.
• Postal, parcel, courier, last-mile delivery, and shipping and related workers, to include private companies.
• Employees who repair and maintain vehicles, aircraft, rail equipment, marine vessels, bicycles, and the
equipment and infrastructure that enables operations that encompass movement of cargo and passengers.
• Air transportation employees, including air traffic controllers and maintenance personnel, ramp workers, aviation
and aerospace safety, security, and operations personnel and accident investigations.
• Workers who support the operation, distribution, maintenance, and sanitation, of air transportation for cargo and
passengers, including flight crews, maintenance, airport operations, those responsible for cleaning and
disinfection, and other on- and off- airport facilities workers.
• Workers supporting transportation via inland waterways such as barge crew, dredging, river port workers for
essential goods.
• Workers critical to rental and leasing of vehicles and equipment that facilitate continuity of operations for
essential workforces and other essential travel.
• Warehouse operators, including vendors and support personnel critical for business continuity (including HVAC &
electrical engineers; security personnel; and janitorial staff) and customer service for essential functions.
PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT SERVICES
• Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential public works facilities and
operations, including bridges, water and sewer main breaks, fleet maintenance personnel, construction of
critical or strategic infrastructure, traffic signal maintenance, emergency location services for buried utilities,
maintenance of digital systems infrastructure supporting public works operations, and other emergent issues.
• Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, builders, contractors, HVAC Technicians, landscapers,
and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and
essential operation of residences, businesses and buildings such as hospitals, senior living facilities, any
temporary construction required to support COVID-19 response.
• Workers who support, such as road and line clearing, to ensure the availability of and access to needed facilities,
transportation, energy and communications.
• Support to ensure the effective removal, storage, and disposal of residential and commercial solid waste and
hazardous waste, including landfill operations.
• Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential dams, locks and levees.
• Workers who support the inspection and maintenance of aids to navigation, and other government provided
services that ensure continued maritime commerce.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Communications:
• Maintenance of communications infrastructure- including privately owned and maintained communication
systems- supported by technicians, operators, call -centers, wireline and wireless providers, cable service
providers, satellite operations, Internet Exchange Points, Points of Presence, Network Access Points, back haul
and front haul facilities, and manufacturers and distributors of communications equipment.
• Government and private sector employees (including government contractors) with work related to undersea
cable infrastructure and support facilities, including cable landing sites, beach manhole vaults and covers,
submarine cable depots and submarine cable ship facilities.
• Government and private sector employees (including government contractors) supporting Department of
Defense internet and communications facilities.
• Workers who support radio, television, and media service, including, but not limited to front-line news reporters,
studio, and technicians for newsgathering, and reporting, and publishing news.
• Network Operations staff, engineers and/or technicians to include IT managers and staff, HVAC & electrical
engineers, security personnel, software and hardware engineers, and database administrators that manage the
network or operate facilities.
• Engineers, technicians and associated personnel responsible for infrastructure construction and restoration,
including contractors for construction and engineering of fiber optic cables, buried conduit, small cells, other
wireless facilities, and other communications sector-related infrastructure. This includes construction of new
facilities and deployment of new technology as these are required to address congestion or customer usage due
to unprecedented use of remote services.
• Installation, maintenance and repair technicians that establish, support or repair service as needed.
• Central office personnel to maintain and operate central office, data centers, and other network office
facilities, critical support personnel assisting front line employees.
• Customer service and support staff, including managed and professional services as well as remote providers of
support to transitioning employees to set up and maintain home offices, who interface with customers to
manage or support service environments and security issues, including payroll, billing, fraud, logistics, and
troubleshooting.
• Workers providing electronic security, fire, monitoring and life safety services, and to ensure physical
security, cleanliness and safety of facilities and personnel, including temporary licensing waivers for
security personnel to work in other States of Municipalities.
• Dispatchers involved with service repair and restoration.
• Retail customer service personnel at critical service center locations for onboarding customers, distributing and
repairing equipment and addressing customer issues in order to support individuals’ remote emergency
communications needs, supply chain and logistics personnel to ensure goods and products are on-boarded to
provision these front-line employees.
• External Affairs personnel to assist in coordinating with local, state and federal officials to address
communications needs supporting COVID-19 response, public safety, and national security.
Information Technology:
• Workers who support command centers, including, but not limited to Network Operations Command Centers,
Broadcast Operations Control Centers and Security Operations Command Centers.
• Data center operators, including system administrators, HVAC & electrical engineers, security personnel, IT
managers and purchasers, data transfer solutions engineers, software and hardware engineers, and database
administrators, for all industries (including financial services).
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• Workers who support client service centers, field engineers, and other technicians and workers supporting
critical infrastructure, as well as manufacturers and supply chain vendors that provide hardware and software,
support services, research and development, and information technology equipment (to include
microelectronics and semiconductors), and HVAC and electrical equipment for critical infrastructure, and test
labs and certification agencies that qualify such equipment(to include microelectronics, optoelectronics, and
semiconductors) for critical infrastructure, including data centers.
• Workers needed to preempt and respond to cyber incidents involving critical infrastructure, including medical
facilities, SLTT governments and federal facilities, energy and utilities, and banks and financial institutions,
securities/other exchanges, other entities that support the functioning of capital markets, public works, critical
manufacturing, food & agricultural production, transportation, and other critical infrastructure categories and
personnel, in addition to all cyber defense workers (who can't perform their duties remotely).
• Suppliers, designers, transporters and other workers supporting the manufacture, distribution and provision and
construction of essential global, national and local infrastructure for computing services (including cloud
computing services and telework capabilities), business infrastructure, financial transactions/services, web-
based services, and critical manufacturing.
• Workers supporting communications systems and information technology- and work from home solutions- used
by law enforcement, public safety, medical, energy, public works, critical manufacturing, food & agricultural
production, financial services, education, and other critical industries and businesses.
• Employees required in person to support Software as a Service businesses that enable remote working,
performance of business operations, distance learning, media services, and digital health offerings, or required
for technical support crucial for business continuity and connectivity.
OTHER COMMUNITY- OR GOVERNMENT-BASED OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS
• Workers to ensure continuity of building functions, including but not limited to security and environmental
controls (e.g., HVAC), the manufacturing and distribution of the products required for these functions, and the
permits and inspections for construction supporting essential infrastructure.
• Elections personnel to include both public and private sector elections support.
• Workers supporting the operations of the judicial system.
• Federal, State, and Local, Tribal, and Territorial employees who support Mission Essential Functions and
communications networks.
• Trade Officials (FTA negotiators; international data flow administrators).
• Employees necessary to maintain news and media operations across various media.
• Employees supporting Census 2020.
• Weather forecasters.
• Clergy for essential support.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting other critical government operations.
• Workers who support necessary credentialing, vetting and licensing operations for critical infrastructure workers.
• Customs and immigration workers who are critical to facilitating trade in support of the national emergency
response supply chain.
• Educators supporting public and private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities for purposes of facilitating
distance learning or performing other essential functions.
• Staff at government offices who perform title search, notary, and recording services in support of mortgage and
real estate services and transactions.
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• Residential and commercial real estate services, including settlement services.
• Workers supporting essential maintenance, manufacturing, design, operation, inspection, security, and
construction for essential products, services, and supply chain and COVID 19 relief efforts.
CRITICAL MANUFACTURING
• Workers necessary for the manufacturing of metals (including steel and aluminum), industrial minerals,
semiconductors, materials and products needed for medical supply chains, and for supply chains associated
with transportation, energy, communications, information technology, food and agriculture, chemical
manufacturing, nuclear facilities, wood products, commodities used as fuel for power generation facilities, the
operation of dams, water and wastewater treatment, processing and reprocessing of solid waste, emergency
services, and the defense industrial base. Additionally, workers needed to maintain the continuity of these
manufacturing functions and associated supply chains, and workers necessary to maintain a manufacturing
operation in warm standby.
• Workers necessary for the manufacturing of materials and products needed to manufacture medical equipment
and personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Workers necessary for mining and production of critical minerals, materials and associated essential
supply chains, and workers engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other
infrastructure necessary for mining production and distribution.
• Workers who produce or manufacture parts or equipment that supports continued operations for any essential
services and increase in remote workforce (including computing and communication devices, semiconductors,
and equipment such as security tools for Security Operations Centers (SOCs) or datacenters).
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
• Workers who manage hazardous materials associated with any other essential activity, including but not limited
to healthcare waste (medical, pharmaceuticals, medical material production), testing operations (laboratories
processing test kits), and energy (nuclear facilities) Workers at nuclear facilities, workers managing medical
waste, workers managing waste from pharmaceuticals and medical material production, and workers at
laboratories processing tests Workers who support hazardous materials response and cleanup.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting hazardous materials management operations.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
• Workers who are needed to provide, process and maintain systems for processing, verification, and recording of
financial transactions and services, including payment, clearing, and settlement; wholesale funding; insurance
services; consumer and commercial lending; and capital markets activities).
• Workers who are needed to maintain orderly market operations to ensure the continuity of financial
transactions and services.
• Workers who are needed to provide business, commercial, and consumer access to bank and non-bank financial
services and lending services, including ATMs, lending and money transmission, and to move currency, checks,
securities, and payments (e.g., armored cash carriers).
• Workers who support financial operations and those staffing call centers, such as those staffing data and
security operations centers, managing physical security, or providing accounting services.
• Workers supporting production and distribution of debit and credit cards.
• Workers providing electronic point of sale support personnel for essential businesses and workers.
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CHEMICAL
• Workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at chemical manufacturing
plants, workers in laboratories, workers at distribution facilities, workers who transport basic raw chemical
materials to the producers of industrial and consumer goods, including hand sanitizers, food and food additives,
pharmaceuticals, paintings and coatings, textiles, building materials, plumbing, electrical, and paper products.
• Workers supporting the safe transportation of chemicals, including those supporting tank truck cleaning facilities
and workers who manufacture packaging items.
• Workers supporting the production of protective cleaning and medical solutions, personal protective equipment,
disinfectants, fragrances, and packaging that prevents the contamination of food, water, medicine, among others
essential.
• Workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities (particularly those with high risk chemicals and/
or sites that cannot be shut down) whose work cannot be done remotely and requires the presence of highly
trained personnel to ensure safe operations, including plant contract workers who provide inspections.
• Workers who support the production and transportation of chlorine and alkali manufacturing, single-use
plastics, and packaging that prevents the contamination or supports the continued manufacture of food, water,
medicine, and other essential products, including glass container manufacturing.
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
• Workers who support the essential services required to meet national security commitments to the federal
government and U.S. Military. These individuals include, but are not limited to, space and aerospace;
mechanical and software engineers (various disciplines), manufacturing/production workers; IT support;
security staff; security personnel; intelligence support, aircraft and weapon system mechanics and maintainers;
and sanitary workers who maintain the hygienic viability of necessary facilities.
• Personnel working for companies, and their subcontractors, who perform under contract or sub-contract to the
Department of Defense, as well as personnel at government-owned/contractor- operated and government-
owned/government-operated facilities, and who provide materials and services to the Department of Defense,
including support for weapon systems, software systems and cybersecurity, defense and intelligence
communications and surveillance, space systems and other activities in support of our military, intelligence and
space forces.
COMMERCIAL FACILITIES
• Workers who support the supply chain of building materials from production through application/installation,
including cabinetry, fixtures, doors, cement, hardware, plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, refrigeration,
appliances, paint/coatings, and employees who provide services that enable repair materials and equipment for
essential functions.
• Workers supporting ecommerce through distribution, warehouse, call center facilities, and other essential
operational support functions.
• Workers in hardware and building materials stores, consumer electronics, technology and appliances retail, and
related merchant wholesalers and distributors - with reduced staff to ensure continued operations.
• Workers distributing, servicing, repairing, installing residential and commercial HVAC systems, boilers, furnaces
and other heating, cooling, refrigeration, and ventilation equipment.
RESIDENTIAL/SHELTER FACILITIES AND SERVICES
• Workers in dependent care services, in support of workers in other essential products and services.
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• Workers who support food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for needy groups and
individuals, including in-need populations and COVID-19 responders (including travelling medical staff).
• Workers in animal shelters.
• Workers responsible for the leasing of residential properties to provide individuals and families with ready
access to available housing.
• Workers responsible for handling property management, maintenance, and related service calls who can
coordinate the response to emergency “at-home” situations requiring immediate attention, as well as facilitate
the reception of deliveries, mail, and other necessary services.
• Workers performing housing construction related activities to ensure additional units can be made available to
combat the nation’s existing housing supply shortage.
• Workers performing services in support of the elderly and disabled populations who coordinate a variety of
services, including health care appointments and activities of daily living.
• Workers supporting the construction of housing, including those supporting government functions related to the
building and development process, such as inspections, permitting and plan review services that can be
modified to protect the public health, but fundamentally should continue and serve the construction of housing
(e.g., allow qualified private third-party inspections in case of government shutdown).
HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
• Workers who produce hygiene products.
• Workers in laundromats, laundry services, and dry cleaners.
• Workers providing personal and household goods repair and maintenance.
• Workers providing disinfection services, for all essential facilities and modes of transportation, and supporting
the sanitation of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail.
• Workers necessary for the installation, maintenance, distribution, and manufacturing of water and space
heating equipment and its components.
• Support required for continuity of services, including commercial disinfectant services, janitorial/cleaning
personnel, and support personnel functions that need freedom of movement to access facilities in support of
front-line employees.
STAY AT HOME ORDINANCE FAQ
What is a stay at home ordinance?
A stay at home ordinance defines a set of requirements/guidelines which have been put in
place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by limiting non-essential activities and contact with
individuals outside of a person’s household.
What a stay at home ordinance is not.
Although a stay at home ordinance does place restrictions on non-essential activities and
creates an environment that maintains social distancing (people should stay in their homes
unless conducting activities deemed essential), a stay at home ordinance does not mean that
individuals will be forced to stay inside their homes.
Why would Brookings enact a stay at home ordinance?
The City of Brookings may enact a stay at home ordinance as a public safety measure to slow
the spread of COVID-19. Currently the Brookings City Council is considering the first reading of
an ordinance, meaning that no stay at home ordinance is enacted. The first reading simply
opens the process to discuss a possible ordinance, take input from citizens, and draft and make
an ordinance ready in the case that it would need to be enacted after a second future
reading. The future second reading would occur based on Council’s determination (See below).
The Purpose of City Council proceeding with a Stay-at-Home Ordinance.
Law requires that ordinances have a first and second reading at public City Council meetings. At
least five (5) business days must pass between each reading and the ordinance does not
become law until adoption at the second reading. The City is moving forward with a first
reading of the Stay-at-Home ordinance to:
• Encourage public input, participation, and engagement
• Vet any potential revisions that are needed for the ordinance
• Be able to act quickly and effectively if the COVID-19 data for the City of Brookings
takes a turn for the worse
At this time, adopting the Stay-at-Home Ordinance is not imminent. However, City Leadership
wants to take the necessary steps now to provide for the health and safety of all Brookings
residents and visitors with a plan in place.
What can I do?
You may leave your home to conduct essential activities (social distancing of at least 6 feet
must be practiced at all times). Some examples of essential activities are:
• Traveling to your place of essential employment for work.
• Going to the grocery store or other to places to obtain necessities like cleaning products,
food and beverages, medicine, pet care, cash from the bank, or fuel.
• Going outside to participate in outdoor activities, get fresh air, or exercise (as long as
social distancing of 6 feet from others is practiced.)
What can’t I do? (Activities deemed non-essential).
You may not conduct non-essential activities, especially those that do not promote social
distancing. Some examples of activities that are prohibited include:
• Hosting, congregating, or attending gatherings where people who do not live together
are assembling outside a single household or living unit.
• Going shopping for non-essential items, for example, browsing within a store for no
purpose.
• Playing on park equipment that has been closed.
How is it different than the current ordinance?
The current City of Brookings Emergency Ordinance 20-005 outlines a set of prohibited
activities and guidelines for individuals, businesses, organizations and public places within the
Brookings community. It refers to what community members and organizations can’t do.
The proposed stay at home ordinance defines what the community can do. It outlines which
activities, services, and businesses are deemed essential and provides guidelines for what is
allowed. In practice, the stay at home ordinance is more restrictive and limits activity outside of
the home to what is absolutely necessary.
What will change?
Essential businesses and services which are defined by the ordinance will continue to operate.
All other businesses and services that are not defined as essential within the ordinance will
close.
Individuals must stay at home unless they are acquiring essential needs like food, medicine, or
solo exercise.
What won’t change?
Eating establishments will still be able to offer take-out and drive-through services.
Essential services like hospitals, care facilities, utility services, etc. will remain operational.
People will not be in lockdown. Individuals will still be able to go out to access essential
necessities and services. They will be able to go where they need to in order to take care of
themselves, and to take care of others.
Where can I find out more?
More information can be found in the “Agendas and Minutes” section of the City’s website
www.cityofbrookings.org.
For more information related to COVID-19 and the City’s COVID-19 response visit:
https://www.cityofbrookings.org/646/Coronavirus-COVID-19-Info
Questions or concerns? Please submit a request through the Engage Brookings mobile app or
on the City website by clicking on the “Report a Concern” button.