Phil Bondurant, the director of the Health Department, will ask the County Council to allow for the hiring of a full-time epidemiologist rather than continue with a temporary employee model for the post.
On March 30, Summit County officials rescinded the state of emergency declaration they issued more than two years ago in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Low case and transmission rates led the Utah Department of Health to move Summit County into the low-risk category as the state starts to transition to a less intensive phase of the pandemic response.
The Summit County Attorney’s Office has concluded that Park City School District and Parley’s Park Elementary School officials did not intentionally delay the enforcement of a mask mandate at the school in November.