Localities in California and Colorado are contracting with private companies to create their own health departments, spurred by a disregard for regional COVID safety mandates.
For some counties and cities that share a public health agency with other local governments, differences over mask mandates, business restrictions, and other covid preventive measures have strained those partnerships.
The Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association claims that the department and Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties need to pay $50 million to break away.
COVENTRY — The Coventry Town Council and Coventry Historic Preservation Commission came together recently to discuss ways that the two groups can collaborate on ensuring important pieces of the town’s