Avon Lake Changes City Council Meeting Policies Amid Coronavirus

AVON LAKE, OH — To comply with social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak, Avon Lake will combine its city council and collective committee meetings, eliminating two meetings a month. Meetings will now be held on the second and fourth Mondays of the month and will start at 6:30 p.m.

All meetings, with one exception, will be closed to the public, but can be watched live through the city's Facebook, on the city's website or on public access cable TV channels WOW! channel 21 and Spectrum channel 1025.

The April 13 meeting will allow a small number of residents, 10, to sit-in on the session. The meeting is open to the public because council members will be holding a hearing on how to avoid the loss of two businesses that wanted to build in Avon Lake.

Here's the schedule for other upcoming meetings:

• April 27 — City council and collective committee meeting
• May 11 — City council and collective committee meeting
• May 26 — City council and collective committee meeting

To submit questions or comments to council, residents should follow these instructions:

• Send an email to vrosmarin@avonlake.org before the meeting. All questions must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. on the day of the meetings
• Write a letter and drop it in the box outside of Avon Lake City Hall, 150 Avon Belden Road. Letters must be received by 4:30 p.m. on the day of the meeting.
• During the meeting, residents can text their comments or questions to 440-787-4102.

Statements on agenda topics can be up to 3 minutes long. Statements on general topics can be about 5 minutes long.