Commissioners consider extending Family First Coronavirus Response Act paid leave
Paid leave for employees
and last updated 2021-04-20 17:56:53-04
QUINCY, Fla. (WTXL) â For the more than 200 employees who work for Gadsden County, extending the Family First Coronavirus Response Act could make a significant impact on their livelihood.
Gadsden County Staff Assistant Katina Washington had to take time off in March to tend to her family due to COVID-19. Right now, I am very appreciative to the county for allowing us to have that act they approved to let us stay home and not worry about losing our job or anything, said Washington.
Commissioners consider COVID-19 monument
Commissioners will vote on whether to erect a monument honoring the people in Gadsden County who have lost their lives due to COVID-19.
and last updated 2021-04-20 18:23:15-04
QUINCY, Fla. (WTXL) â Commissioners will vote on whether to erect a monument honoring the people in Gadsden County who have lost their lives due to COVID-19.
If approved, it would feature 92 red and white flags and a bell that would sound 92 times for each of the virus s victims. We ve lost 92 people, Gadsden county residents, to the COVID virus, said Commissioner Brenda Holt. And we want to honor the people in the county, and show them what 92 looks like by putting that up on the courthouse square to remind them to take safety precautions, to work hard to make sure that all of our citizens get to live another day.
“He didn’t say anything to me. His first instinct was to shove me up against the wall, and that’s what he did, and he held me there. I put my hand up to defend myself, and that’s when he began screaming at me,” Evans previously told NBC 5. “He told me to get the f out of the place and he started spitting in my face, and I put my hand up over my face and so I blocked it, and that’s when he grabbed my hand and he drove me to the ground.”
She was then placed in a chokehold and lost consciousness.