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Councilmember Howell stated she would like to see the issue of masking incorporated somehow <br />and asked if others had any considerations for that. <br /> <br />Mayor Pro Tem Riley asked if this would extend to other City bodies such as the Planning <br />Commission. <br /> <br />City Attorney Knaak replied “agents” are included which means everyone. <br /> <br />Councilmember Musgrove referenced the Supreme Court’s ruling and the question if this is even <br />necessary. She stated that today OSHA is reported to seek permanent vaccine or testing rule in <br />place of the temporary directive. She thought there was a lot of things happening in the <br />government that are in line with the Supreme Court’s ruling. She felt there are bodies of <br />government that would try to do what they could against individuals and that is part of the culture <br />now. She liked the idea of incorporating the mask issue and wondered if language from the <br />Lexington resolution could be incorporated into the Ramsey resolution. <br /> <br />Councilmember Woestehoff questioned if the masking issue was accomplished with a previous <br />resolution. <br /> <br />Councilmember Heineman replied he believed that was limiting the executive order and <br />emergency powers. After the executive order ended, that is not in effect anymore. <br /> <br />Councilmember Woestehoff asked questions about two possible scenarios. The first was the fact <br />that his children are in school. If they get lice they are supposed to get medical treatment for that. <br />He couldn’t imagine that a similar situation would exist at the City level, but does this say someone <br />couldn’t be sent home if they have some highly contagious condition and ask them to get medical <br />treatment for that. He also asked if someone could interpret this as saying, because this protects <br />medical freedoms they would feel entitled to smoke at City Hall. He asked City Attorney Knaak <br />for comment. <br /> <br />Councilmember Howell stated she had worked in the food industry for a while and part of the <br />training included things that employees could be sent home for and other things that couldn’t be <br />discriminated against. She stated there would be limits for when people would be sent home from <br />City Hall. <br /> <br />City Attorney Knaak replied that raises a good point about where you get preemption, where the <br />State has authority such as food preparation. There isn’t anything the City can do to regulate or <br />change that because there are state-wide standards. This is more narrow. He stated that he would <br />work on revisions to include the mask mandate issue. <br /> <br />Mayor Pro Tem Riley stated Councilmember Musgrove had asked that it be in the resolution. <br /> <br />Councilmember Musgrove replied that was only because it was in the Lexington resolution. <br /> <br />City Council Work Session / January 25, 2022 <br />Page 18 of 23 <br /> <br />