With pretty much the entire county shut down the last several weeks, how do you go about opening it back up again? Anderson county officials have put together a special task force to determine how the process should go. Governor Kelly is expected to lift the stay at home order and give back control to county and local governments. But state officials don’t want a wholesale, unrestricted jump-back-into regular life in Kansas communities, in case a resurgence of the virus follows a relaxation of those restrictions on public gatherings. Anderson county emergency preparedness director J.D. Mersman says the task force includes representatives from healthcare, local government, schools and business, whose job would be to determine how fast and to what degree Anderson county transitions back to normal. He feels group of subject matter experts we can take into account what’s best for the health and safety of the county as well as minimize the financial burden if at all possible. He adds that the county and public health officer can enact more strict local orders but cannot place anything in effect that is less strict than the governor’s order.
