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Bredthauer, Hartman, Hurst, Lancaster, Quandt, Peterson and Richardson all voted yes and none voted no. Motion Carried. 9:10 A.M. Held the Board of Equalization meeting 9: 15 A.M. adjourned the Board of Equalization meeting and returned to the regular meeting. 4 (A) DISCUSSION AND ACTION REGARDING FEDERAL EXPANDED FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA) REGULATIONS —Sarah Carstensen explained that the Federal government passed the family's first coronavirus response act recently as of March 18, 2020. It requires additional employee considerations, one being the emergency paid sick leave act, and another being the emergency medical leave expansion act. Carstensen stated that the FMLA expansion act allows additional paid leave for people who have children under the age 18 who do not have care because of schools or daycares being closed due to a public health emergency as in Covid-19, this is an attempt by congress to do some job protection and some economic protection for workers she stated. Carstensen stated that what she has done is a purposed policy and made amendments to it to bring us into compliance with the newly passed act it goes in effect April 1, 2020 and ends December 31, 2020. This is a one time we never know what congress will do in future this is a 9 month provision and once provision is over it ends, unless there would be some sort of extension to it she stated. All business's and government's with 500 or less employees they gave the option to exclude emergency responders and health care providers, in her opinion the reason is we need to be able to maintain our essential services she stated, you can't run a jail with no people to take care of the inmates and same goes for law enforcement. 4 (B) DISCUSSION AND ACTION ON FEDERAL EMERGENCY PAID SICK LEAVE-Carstensen stated the second portion is the emergency paid sick leave act where employers with 500 or less including governments are required to provide two weeks of paid sick leave for Covid-19 related events. Carstensen stated that there are two different levels to that sick leave for three of the reasons you are eligible for full pay and 2/3rds pay they are laid out in the purposed resolutions she stated. This emergency paid sick leave can work in conjunction with the FMLA as long as they are meeting the criteria. 4 (C) DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON FIRST RESPONDER ADMINISTRATION LEAVE-Carstensen stated that she gets the sense from the Board that they do want to take care of their first responders who perform services for Hall County she stated that is why she proposed an Administrative leave policy. She noted that what this policy does is that since these employees are excluded from the other FMLA and Emergency sick leave acts relating to COVID-19. This would allow them some opportunity to receive some kind of benefit if they were to become sick or needed to be away from their office, this would assure that if an employee had been exposed they could stay away and not contaminate, the more