Citywide Coronavirus Update (05/22/20): Important Update to All City Email Subscribers
City of Culver City sent this bulletin at 05/22/2020 06:35 PM PDT
Citywide Coronavirus Update - May 22, 2020
**Today’s Citywide Coronavirus Update is being sent to all City email subscribers because it contains especially important information. If you would like to receive these email updates, please sign-up for the City's coronavirus email list.**
LA County Library Wants to Hear About Your Experience
Contact Tracing
Free COVID-19 Testing Available
You Are Not Alone
Let's make a Culver City connection and talk soon. We’ll call you!
Do You Need a Volunteer?
1. Memorial Day Holiday
While Culver City’s City Hall is already closed due to COVID-19, City Hall services will be closed Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. Additionally, we plan to give your email inbox a break on Monday. The next Coronavirus email update is scheduled for May 27. We hope that you enjoy the weekend and stay safe. If you are looking for things to do while staying safer at home, check out the City’s Virtual Recreation Center.
2. Indoor Shopping Malls and Car Parades
Indoor Shopping Malls
Today, the City Manager issued the 14th Supplement to Public Order, which allows lower-risk indoor retailers in shopping malls to be open for curbside service. Retail establishments and their customers must practice physical distancing and wear face coverings, and the businesses must also be in compliance with the conditions laid out in the County’s Checklist for Retail Establishments Opening for Curbside Pickup as well as all Culver City requirements. Shopping malls must create clearly-marked curbside or outside pickup points that maintain physical distance with visual cues or other measures, and have purchased goods available there or available through home delivery. Lower-risk retailers located within a mall may take orders and deliver goods to the public outside of the mall from these marked locations.
Car Parades
Car parades are now allowed so that graduations, birthdays and other special days and achievements can be safely celebrated. Car parades cannot include participants on a bicycle, a motorcycle, a convertible with the top open, or a vehicle with no doors such as a golf cart. If any of the windows on a vehicle is open, the occupants of the vehicle must wear a face covering.
Any organization coordinating a large-scale parade must have a designated organizational host who is responsible for ensuring compliance with the rules for the parade and adherence to the State’s Stay At Home Order that precludes gatherings. Only those personnel of the organization necessary to facilitate the parade and to ensure compliance can be present at the location designated by the host.
The host must:
At its own cost, arrange for and provide security sufficient to ensure compliance with the State’s Order and address any traffic and safety issues.
Develop a parade plan that deals with State’s Order, traffic and safety issues, parade participants, and social distancing requirements.
Ensure participants and personnel adhere to the face covering and physical distancing requirements.
The host may provide a significant document to one vehicle parade participant at a time, such as a diploma or other paper, while adhering to face covering and social distancing requirements.
The parade must:
Take place in an outside location large enough to accommodate the social distancing requirements.
Proceed by the host’s invitation only, with the parade limit of vehicles tied to the capacity size of the location.
Not allow sales or exchanges of any items or food.
If you have questions about what Culver City Permits may be required for your car parade, please contact the City’s Business License Division at (310) 253-5870.
3. Connect to Now Open Beach Bike Paths
Beach bike paths are now open! The opening of bike paths follows LA County’s May 13 announcement that County beaches would be available for active recreation. Allowable recreation activities now include swimming, surfing, running, walking, skating, and biking. Beach bathrooms remain open, and beach parking lots at Dockweiler State Beach, Will Rogers State Beach, Zuma Beach, and Surfrider Beach will be open at partial capacity. Santa Monica parking lots are closed, as are most public beach lots in coastal communities.
Safety protocols and additional information about beach visits include:
#BYOM—Bring your own mask. Everyone needs a face covering while out of the water if there are other people nearby. Infants and children under the age of 2 should not wear cloth face coverings.
Practice physical distancing. Stay at least six feet away from other people who are not in your household. Avoid crowded areas or crowding around others at the beach.
Gatherings of any size or other events are not allowed on the beaches including athletic competitions, youth camps, or recreational programming.
Chairs, umbrellas, canopies, coolers, and grills are not allowed.
Piers, volleyball courts, and boardwalks are closed except for the purpose of customers accessing retailers curbside and doorside and essential businesses along the boardwalk.
Concessions and food vending are not allowed. Bring what you may need with you.
Even though California is beginning to move into Stage 2 of reopening, the Stay-at-Home order is still in place. This Memorial Day weekend, stay close to home and avoid gathering with people outside of your household to stop the spread of COVID-19.
5. Risk of COVID-19 Remains High
Even though LA County is on the road to recovery, the risk of COVID-19 remains high for those with underlying health conditions, as they are more vulnerable to serious illness or death.
People with underlying health conditions should remain safer at home.
6. LA County Library Wants to Hear About Your Experience
LA County Library is calling all LA County residents: As we continue to live through these unprecedented times, LA County Library wants to help you connect socially while still staying physically apart. Stories and art have always helped us share our experiences, connect with others, and show that we are not alone. LA County Library invites you to share your story of what living through this time has been like for you—including the emotional, funny, and somewhere in between—whether that means you’ve been staying at home, serving as an essential worker, teaching your children, rediscovering yourself, or living in sweatpants. Share your unique story with the LA County Library in whatever artistic form it takes (from diaries to drawings, poems to songs) and help capture this historical moment.
7. Contact Tracing
In the ongoing efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, Governor Gavin Newsom today launched California Connected, the state’s comprehensive contact tracing program and public awareness campaign. As part of California Connected, public health workers from communities across the state will connect with individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and work with them, and people they have been in close contact with, to ensure they have access to confidential testing, as well as medical care and other services to help prevent the spread of the virus.
To prevent the spread of this virus, public health workers will connect Californians with confidential testing. They may also recommend medical care, and that individuals who could be infectious separate themselves from others in their home to protect those around them. Information provided to local public health departments is confidential under California law. Public health authorities will not share that information with outside entities. That information will be used for public health purposes only. Contact tracers will not ask for financial information, social security numbers or immigration status. Please be aware of text messaging scams. For more information about contact tracing in California, visit the California Connected website.
8. Free COVID-19 Testing Available
LA County strongly encourages all LA County residents who are interested in being tested to first contact their Primary Care Provider or Healthcare Center about receiving a test a their facility. If you do not have access to this care or are unable to contact them, free testing is available across the County. Priority is given to those who meet the criteria below.
Persons with the following symptoms:
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fevers
Chills
Repeated shaking with chills
Muscle pain
Headache
Sore throat
New loss of sense of smell
OR
Persons without symptoms who meet the following criteria:
10. Let's make a Culver City connection and talk soon. We’ll call YOU!
We want you to know that we are here for you. If you or another Culver City resident would like a check-in call for a quick chat, let us know. Our friendly City staff are making weekly phone calls to any residents 18 and older just to say “hi," see how you are doing, or offer information and resources. You don’t need a reason—we’ll call you. If you would like to sign-up for the weekly phone call program, give us a ring at (310) 253-6890 (Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM).
11. Do You Need a Volunteer?
If you or someone you know has a non-emergency, non-medical need related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and you would like assistance from a volunteer, please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, address, phone number, email address, and your need. In an emergency, please dial 9-1-1.