Vallejo public counter to be closed due to COVID outbreak

May 27—The City of Vallejo announced Friday afternoon that the public counter for Planning and Development Services Counter will be closed next week due to a recent COVID outbreak.

City Hall was already scheduled to be closed on Monday in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday. With this outbreak, it will be closed through Thursday.

Although the state and federal governments have officially ended the COVID pandemic, the city is still required to follow employer-specific protocols mandated by CalOSHA.

OSHA's guidance for Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the workplace advises employers to provide workers with face coverings, unless their work task requires a respirator. Employers should provide face coverings to workers who request them at no cost.

Large numbers of positive test results denote an outbreak, which triggers the city's Covid Prevention Program. Under these protocols, affected employees will be out of the office recovering for at least five days. During the closure, the public counter and offices will be sanitized.

"Unfortunately, we will need to close the public counter next week due to severely low staffing availability and out of an abundance of caution for the public and our employees," Assistant City Manager Terrance Davis said in a news release.

Online and telephone services will remain available to the public, but the city said it expects slight delays due to lower-than-usual staffing numbers impacted by the outbreak.

City Hall and the water billing desk will also remain open, but staffing in some departments may be sporadic due to illness.

Bill payments and other documents can still be dropped off at the front of City Hall, and many services are available online.

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