The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Travis County, Texas (County government workforce) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- County
- Authority
- County Judge's authority over County operations under the local disaster declaration (memorandum recites 'I have issued an order directing Travis County Executives, Elected Officials, and Appointed Officials')
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16
- End
- Not stated ('Travis County may require employees to return to regular, in-office work at any time') (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandate
- Addressees
- Travis County employees, Executives, Elected Officials and Appointed Officials
- Functions reached
- OF/TELE County offices moved to telework (public counterparties: clerks, permitting, tax, courts)
- CRT public offices' in-person service reduced
- WF County workforce
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
In order to protect the health and safety of our employees and to prevent the spread of COVID-19, I have issued an order directing Travis County Executives, Elected Officials, and Appointed Officials to implement temporary teleworking arrangements for employees whose job duties are conducive to working from home.... Travis County employees who are designated essential by the appropriate County Executive, Elected Official, or Appointed Official and perform essential duties for the Travis County community are expected to report to work as scheduled unless otherwise notified.
Enforcement
Notes
Evidence of the public-office telework layer in the county from March 16, 2020; the underlying order is not in the library.
Retrieval noteMemorandum signed by the County Judge).