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If you are a K-12 teacher or a Utahn age 70 or older, call the Salt Lake County Health Department at 385-468-4100 on Wednesday, January 13th at 8 AM or visit https://slco.org/health/COVID-19/vaccine/ to request an appointment for January 19th-23rd. Appointments will be limited to available doses and more appointments will be available as the Health Department recieves more vaccine. Visit https://slco.org/health/COVID-19/vaccine/ for more information about the vaccine and this vaccination program.

COVID-19 vaccine availability and accessibility is evolving rapidly as of mid-January 2021. The Town of Alta will provide updates as we learn more.

The mayor would like to share this article as a resource for our community.  It was printed in the SL Tribune on 12/16/20 and is about COVID-19 and a study that MIT students are working on in collaboration with Alta’s mayor.  Click here for a link to the article.

Click here to read a message from Mayor Sondak written on November 16, 2020, on the state of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic and the effects it will have on the Alta community during the upcoming ski season.

Governor Gary Herbert issued an executive order on November 8th applying new restrictions across the State of Utah as COVID-19 transmission surges, threatening the Utah health care system and public health and safety for all Utahns. The order enacts the following restrictions.

-The entire state is under a mask mandate.
-Limit casual social gatherings to household-only until November 23, 2020.
-Put all youth and high school extracurricular activities, including athletic and intramural events, on hold for the duration of the order.
-Require students enrolled at public and private colleges and universities, who either live on campus or attend at least one in-person class per week, to be tested for COVID-19 weekly.

Click here to read the order, which is in effect until November 23rd.

Click here to visit the Utah Coronavirus Website page on the new order.

On Tuesday October 13, Utah Governor Gary Herbert announced a new framework of public health guidelines and restrictions intended to curtail the spread of COVID-19. This new approach replaces the previous “color-coded” phased guidelines, and it applies restrictions on a county-by-county basis based upon new case rates, test positivity rates, and ICU utiliziation. The new restrictions went into effect today for individuals and will be in effect October 18th for businesses

Click here to visit the Utah Coronavirus Website, and click here to view the new guidelines, and click here to view the order that implements the new guidlines.

Join the Town of Alta and Ennead Architects for a virtual public meeting on October 15th from 5:00-7:00 PM to learn about progress toward a vision, program, and preliminary design concepts for the future Town of Alta Community Center. The meeting will take place on the Zoom online meeting platform. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and answering your questions. We’ll be joined by Contour Group who will speak briefly summarizing their avalanche analysis.

For more information on the community center project, visit www.altacommunitycenter.com, and see below for information about how to participate in next weeks Zoom meeting.

Zoom information:
October 15, 2020 5:00 – 7:00 PM MST
https://zoom.us/j/96933169600?pwd=RitxWGNONE1PMnplc1N6Rk55RUttdz09

Meeting ID: 969 3316 9600 Passcode: 578745

On Saturday, October 3rd, an Alta Post Office employee notified the Town of Alta they received a positive result from a test for COVID-19. The Town closed the facility immediately and a specialized contractor sanitized the facility on October 4th. Please see this notice to Alta postal customers, which is posted at the Alta Post Office, for more information.

The Town of Alta is accepting proposals for FY2020 audit services.  Click here to view the TOA RFP for audit services

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Click here to view the Salt Lake County November 3 General Election materials page including voter registration deadline, updates and vote-by-mail information.