Local officials ask governor to reopen businesses January 19 2021
Letter signed by city mayor and county judge requests local businesses get same leeway as school districts
Crook County and City of Prineville leaders have officially requested that Gov. Kate Brown relax restrictions that have closed numerous local businesses.
In a letter signed by Prineville Mayor Jason Beebe and Crook County Judge Seth Crawford, officials are asking Brown to consider allowing our businesses to reopen using the same logic and adaptive thinking you deployed that has allowed our school districts to operate.
Local leaders are requesting that the state allow small businesses in Crook County to reopen using the same OSHA COVID guidelines in place prior to the most recent lockdown, and to trust those business owners and employees to manage the COVID safety measures with the same tenacity and hard work that earned them the success they achieved pre-pandemic.