Ketchikan City Council to consider extending local emergency declaration through August 1
Posted by Eric Stone | Jun 2, 2021
A view of Downtown Ketchikan near the intersection of Dock Street and Front Street in 2017. (KRBD file photo)
Ketchikan’s City Council will consider a one-month extension of its COVID-19 emergency declaration at its next meeting Thursday.
The community’s existing declaration is set to expire July 1; the proposal would push that date out to August 1. The declaration gives the city manager broad authority to use city resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Notably absent from the agenda, though, is a proposal to shutter or withdraw the city’s support for the Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center. The EOC, as it’s known, is responsible for coordinating the local pandemic response and is a joint operation of Ketchikan’s city and borough governments, along with officials from the city of Saxman.