If Kansas ends COVID-19 emergency rules, will public meetings still be virtual?

Flexibility to conduct public meetings remotely could be thrust into uncertainty if Kansas lawmakers opt to end the state’s COVID-19 emergency declaration, posing a conundrum for the handful of local government bodies that aren’t yet allowing the public to attend their hearings in person. As the pandemic began last March, Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office issued new rules granting governmental bodies leeway in how they complied with the Kansas Open Meetings Act. Meetings had to remain public, but that could be achieved by allowing citizens to join a Zoom stream or conference call. Other efforts must be made to make the process as legible to the public as possible.
Source: Dodge City Daily Globe.