City councilors will hold a public hearing Monday night on Zoom in connection with a mask order for Concord businesses.
The concept of a mask requirement was first raised in May, but the board did not comply with it. However, medical discoveries selling the mask’s effectiveness in preventing the spread of COVID-19, mask needs in neighboring states, and public lawsuits have prompted the council to reconsider.
The City Council’s COVID-19 Mask Subcommittee drafted an ordinance on August 17 and issued it to create a legislature titled “Wearing Masks in the City of Concord – COVID-19.” To participate in the Monday night discussion regarding this ordinance, make a stop at concordnh.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx to locate a link to the Zoom assembly or a phone number to be successful only via Audio. The page also a link to the agenda, which includes a complete copy of the order.
The order requires workers at all Concord corporations to wear masks “when interacting with the public and as long as they are within two meters of a colleague or customer.” It also requires that “members of the public entering any business, add any outdoor domain where business of any kind is conducted (except as set forth herein), a task site, or a city government building of Concord will have to wear a face mask. “Business exceptions come with” restaurants or places of worship. “
The mask would not be mandatory for young people under 10 years of age or for “anyone for whom wearing a mask could pose a threat on physical fitness grounds.” The ordinance requires the mask to cover “at least the nose, mouth, and surrounding areas of the lower face,” but allows the mask to be “factory-made, homemade, or improvised from familiar materials.”
Enforcement of the law is one of the council’s considerations in May when this factor was first raised, and the ordinance outlines the consequences of not wearing a face mask. The penalty for the first offense would be a written warning for the time being and any other offense a $ 15 fine.
Failure to pay the penalty within 10 days will double the penalty, failure to pay within 20 days will increase the penalty to $ 60, and failure to pay after 20 days may also result in a court summons.
The Hopkinton City Library will be open to shoppers on a limited basis and walk-ins on Tuesday.
Appointments are requested to reserve 30-minute time slots and can be made by calling 746-3663 or emailing [email protected]. Time slots are open to any patron from 3-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, starting Sept. 12.
Schedules will be available to seniors only 10 a.m. at noon on Tuesday and for families with young children only on Friday from 10 a.m. to noon.
There will be a maximum of 15 visitors in the construction at a time, and if capacity is reached through reservations, visitors without an appointment will be welcome.
Masks will be needed. Computers will be available by appointment, and the photocopier and fax machine must be available. Tables, exam rooms and meeting rooms will be available until further notice.
Sidewalk pickup will continue and the library is asking consumers to continue with the back box of the external e-book.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services reported three new positive effects of COVID-1nine over the weekend (Saturday 30, Sunday nine), adding a new case with no known threat factors. Eighteen of the new instances were in Hillsborough County, and nine in Manchester. The total number of diagnosed cases in the state is now 7,254.
DHHS announced a new hospitalization case, bringing the total to 714. No further deaths have been announced.
Concord Hospital had gained control effects of 13,561 patients as of Thursday, 173 of whom were positive. None of the positive cases were hospitalized at the end of last week.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott posted a weekend Twitter message detailing COVID-19’s testing efforts in the state related to the reopening of higher education. Scott wrote that “more than 8600 tests were administered to returning students with only 19 positive results. This equates to a positivity rate of 0.22%, which is a decrease than the general population of Vermont.”
Scott also wrote that more than part of the 15,270 out-of-state scholars Vermont plans to host this fall have already been screened at least once. Of the 15,270 out of state, 9,112 were back on the Vermont campus as of Aug. 26. The total number of students expected on Vermont school campuses this fall, adding students in the state, is 21,292.
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