Council members voted 4 to 3 in favor of encouraging businesses to mandate the use of masks for employees and customers.
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OUTSIDE LEECOUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LESLIEDELASBOUR FOX 4 IYCA HEATED DEBATE ENDS WITH ANARROW VOTE.TODAY━ THE CITY OF FORT MYERSMET TO DISCUSS MANDATING THE USEOF MASKS WITHIN CITY LIMITS.ULTIMATELY CITY COUNCIL VOTINGFOUR TO THREE AGAINST THEMANDATE.SEVERAL SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CITIESHAVE IMPLEMENTED MASK MANDATES━MOST RECENTLY PUNTA GORDA.FOX 4’S SANDRA RODRIGUEZ WAS ATTODAY’S MEETING AND JOINS USFROM CITY HALL WITH WHAT CITYCOUNCIL DID PASS.( 0:33 - 0:43)( 0:47 - 0:59)(1:14 - 1:26)(1:36 - 1:40)LL INTRO:WELL, TODAY CITY COUNCIL HEARDNUMEROUS PUBLIC COMMENTS SOMEIN FAVOR, OTHERS AGAINSTSEVERAL SPEAKERS STATING MEDICALOR PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ASTO WHY THEY CAN’T WEAR MASKSLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ALSOJOINING THE CONVERSATION━SAYING THE FORT MYERS POLICEDEPARTMENT DOES NOT HAVE THERESOURCES TO ENFORCE A MASKMANDATEA DISCUSSION LASTING ROUGHLY 4HOURS━ THE DECISION OF WHETHEROR NOT TO IMPOSE A MASK MANDATEIN THE CITY OF FORT MYERA TOPIC OF MIXED EMOTIONS DURINGTHURSDAY’S MEETINGSOT(Teresa Watkins-Brown,Councilwoman, City of FortMyers):"We need to take a stand and putsomething in place to make surethe citizens of this communityare safe."BUT OTHERS SAID EDUCATION IS THEKEYSOT(Gaile Anthony, Councilwoman,City of Fort Myers):"I think we need to concentrateon supplied, people on thestreets talking to people, goingout into communities trying tohelp people with the educationalpart."ULTIMATELY CITY COUNCIL VOTING4 TO 3 IN FAVOR OF DRAFTING ARESOLUTION THAT WILL ENCOURAGEBUSINESSES TO MANDATE THE USE OFMASKS FOR EMPLOYEES ANDCUSTOMERSTHAT MOTION PUT FORWARD BYCOUNCILMAN KEVIN ANDERSONSOT(Kevin Anderson, Councilman,City of Fort Myers):"We need to work very hard withthe major businesses in the cityto honor this resolution and ifwe can accomplish that then thisresolution will have the sameeffect almost as mandating amask."BUT OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS WORRYTODAY’S DECISION IS NOT BEENOUGH...(Johnny Streets, Councilman,City of Fort Myers):"We are in a national crisis, aworld crisis, so some things weneed to do, leaders need to moveforward."STREETS SAYS HE DOESN’T BELIEVETODAY’S MEETING ACCOMPLISHEDWHAT IT HAD TO43:52(Johnny Streets, Councilman,City of Fort Myers):"We needed to have made adecision, that’s what we werehere for, to make a decision notto find a way to not make adecision and I think we found away not to make a decision forthe citizens of Fort Myers."LL TAG:COUNCILMAN ANDERSON TELLSCOUNCILMAN ANDERSON TELLS ME HEIS OPTIMISTIC THAT BUSINESS WILLSUPPORT AND FOLLOW THERESOLUTION... TH DRAFT WILL GOBACK TO CITY COUNCIL
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The city plans to launch an educational campaign, using a specialized logo.
