SUPERVISORS SET ‘DARK DAYS’ FOR NEXT YEAR

Calendar has 20 days when board’s regular meetings will not be held

RIVERSIDE

As Riverside County heads into a new year, supervisors have a tentative schedule for 2020, designating days on which no meetings will be held.

In October, Board of Supervisors Clerk Kecia Harper-ihem proposed no board meetings on 16 Tuesdays — the day of the week when the board is supposed to be in regular open session.

Board Chairman Kevin Jeffries, who will be rotating out of the chair and turning it over to Supervisor Manuel Perez on Jan. 1, questioned whether support staff would be available on several of the Tuesdays that immediately precede federal holidays, and he was assured by Harper-ihem and county CEO George Johnson that personnel would be on hand.

The board can make adjustments to the schedule whenever it deems them necessary and has done so in previous years.

Most of the Tuesdays when no meetings are planned generally coincide with, or immediately follow, holidays. However, two days will fall during the board’s summer recess in August.

A few other days were added to the list to clear supervisors’ calendars in March, when legislative conferences are planned, as well as in July in anticipation of the summer slowdown. A suspension of county business is also planned around

Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

One meeting has been taken off the calendar for June, the month when most of the budget hearings for the next fiscal year are held.

Following is the list of 2020’s planned “dark days”: Jan. 21, Feb. 18, March 3, April 14, May 26, June 2, July 21 and 28, Aug. 11 and 18, Sept. 8, Oct. 13, Nov. 24, Dec. 1, 22 and 29.

The board meets most Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in the Board Chambers, 4080 Lemon St., Riverside. To view agendas or meeting minutes, visit https://www.rivcocob.org.