The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors went on report Tuesday in assist of Meeting Invoice 420, which seeks to permit theme parks to reopen earlier that California Governor Gavin Newsom has allowed.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger advisable that the board again the bipartisan bill by Meeting members Sharon Quirk-Silva and Suzette Martinez Valladares. The invoice would amend the state’s business steering to permit amusement and theme parks to open as soon as a area is within the reasonable or orange threat tier fairly than the decrease minimal or yellow tier.
Barger despatched a letter of assist to the invoice’s sponsors earlier this month.
“With full outside operations and the power to take care of bodily distancing, theme parks throughout the nation have confirmed that they will safely reopen,” Barger wrote. “Giant theme parks nationwide started reopening final summer season and there (have) not but been any outbreaks or unfold from these institutions.”
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Barger mentioned that densely populated counties equivalent to Los Angeles would have a really tough time assembly the minimal threat tier standards of lower than one each day case of COVID per 100,000 residents and a take a look at positivity charge of lower than 2%, which she mentioned was unwarranted.
She cited a Los Angeles Financial Growth Company report that the amusement, playing, and recreation sector has skilled the best proportion of job losses within the county, with greater than 98% of jobs misplaced within the earliest months of the pandemic.
Most of these impacted are low-income employees with a mean wage of $32,000 per 12 months, in response to the LAEDC examine.
The board’s vote was unanimous.
On February 4, the California Meeting members representing districts impacted significantly by the closure of Disneyland and Six Flags Magic Mountain had been set to co-sponsor a invoice that may place all theme parks within the “Orange – Reasonable – Tier 3” of the state’s Covid-19 Trade Steerage for Amusement Parks and Theme Parks. The steering in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economic system at the moment restricts theme parks from reopening till the county wherein they’re positioned achieves the “Yellow – Minimal – Tier 4.”
Even then, the visitor restrict at parks could be 25% and indoor eating institutions might solely function at 25% capability. Disneyland, Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm all closed in March 2020.
Magic Mountain in Valencia introduced earlier this month that it plans on reopening this spring.
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— Six Flags Magic Mountain (@SFMagicMountain) February 19, 2021
Metropolis Information Service contributed to this report.
