Council sets in-person meetings

CHENEY — The City Council took steps at their June 8 meeting to resume holding its regular meetings in-person.

Like all other legislative bodies, Cheney’s City Council has been holding its twice-monthly meetings remotely via Zoom due to Gov. Jay Inslee’s March, 2020 declaration of a state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Part of that proclamation prohibited in-person meetings and waived and suspended a number of laws and rules established by the Public Records Act.

Inslee has since announced the state will effectively re-open on June 30, and provided some guidelines for conducting in...