Riverside County supervisors Tuesday approved returning their meeting schedule to normal, dropping planned suspensions that were put in place because of the coronavirus outbreak.
On March 17, the Board of Supervisors added four so-called “dark days” to the schedule — March 24 and 31, as well as April 28 and May 12 — believing then that the farther meetings were spaced apart, the greater the public health benefits.
However, the Executive Office asked, and the supervisors authorized, removal of the May 12 dark day, and hence the board will be in session on that day, as well as on June 2, which had originally been scheduled as a day without any board activity.
The board still will not be in session on May 26, the day after the Memorial Day holiday, which is traditional.
In a statement posted to the board agenda, the Executive Office said “pressing matters” behoove a return to regular business. Hearings to iron out details in the budget for the next fiscal year are typically held throughout June.
Under the second revised meeting schedule, the remaining dark days for the year will fall on the following dates:
— July 21 and 28;
— Aug. 11 and 18;
— Sept. 8;
— Oct. 13;
— Nov. 24;
— Dec. 1, 22 and 29.
The board retains authority to amend the schedule whenever it desires.