On Tuesday, the Town Council met for the first time since instituting an island wide indoor mask mandate.
Lars Trodson of the Chamber of Commerce was in attendance, and the council thanked him and his staff for facilitating the distribution of masks to businesses on such short notice. Trodson told the council that Medical Center Director Dr. Tom Warcup and Police Chief Matt Moynihan delivered 1,200 masks to the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, and the doctor ordered 4,000 more from the mainland. Council Member Keith Stover went over to pick up those masks and bring them back to the island, delivering them to Trodson as the initial 1,200 were dwindling.
Trodson said his office had distributed about 3,000 masks to businesses and tourists. He also said his office and many of the businesses had new mask signage. He told the council: “The mandate took the burden off the individual shop owner. It’s very easy for people to say this is mandated by the town. It really takes any debate out of it at the store level.”
Stover mentioned that part of the reasoning behind the mask mandate was that it would reflect the “fundamental community value.”
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