The city's Emergency Operations Center is shutting down on April 29. What that means for residents is there will be no more mandates about masking and crowd sizes. But individuals, businesses and organizations could still impose their own rules.
“That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of our COVID-related responses and all of our COVID-related activities will immediately go away, but some of them will,” said Deputy City Manager Robert Barr. “So our testing operations, the fire training center is a good example of one that we are demobilizing.”
What that means for residents is there will be no more mandates about masking and crowd sizes. But individuals, businesses and organizations could still impose their own rules.Barr said the city does intend to continue giving out free home test kits and masks, as long as the federal government pays for them.. Congress did not include COVID programs in its latest spending bill.