It was unclear if the commission will take public comment on the issue.
Also on Tuesday’s agenda, as the meeting’s final business item, are the proposed regulations on commercial wind systems.
No public comment is expected on that item since the commission heard an hour of debate two weeks ago.
Commission Chairman Ron Hirst asked that the mask issue be placed on Tuesday’s agenda, said County Administrator Randy Partington.
Hirst was also the one who had it placed on the commission agenda on Dec. 22, when, after 90 minutes of public comment, the commission allowed the restriction to stand. At that time, however, Hirst indicated he’d bring it up again in the future.
Reno County moved back into its “Yellow alert status on Tuesday, as Kansas marked a year and a day of the COVID-19 pandemic being declared in the state.
That is the lowest active alert level on the county’s dashboard, indicating a “moderate to low number of cases, with most from a known source of exposure.”
Reno County Health officials, meanwhile, announced they have scheduled three more COVID-19 first-dose mass distribution clinics and three second-dose events over the next three weeks at the Hutchinson Sports Arena.
After that, officials tentatively projected, the county may be able to move into the next category of vaccine recipients under phase 2 of the state’s distribution guidelines, which would be people living in congregate settings and “critical workers in high-contact jobs.”
The only wait for a group of Reno County residents getting their COVID-19 vaccinations at a community clinic at the Hutchinson Sports Arena on Friday morning was after getting their shot.
That’s because they had to sit in the arena bleachers for at least 15 minutes to watch for reactions from the shot.
In fact, some residents anticipating waits who showed up early were whisked on through and were out before their scheduled appointment time.
The county’s first point of distribution or POD vaccination effort appeared to be going off without a hitch, with lots of workers, volunteers and shot recipients praising the effort and smiling behind their masks.