(Enid, OK) Enid city commissioners will consider mandating masks for the third time in the last few months with a special meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Stride Bank Center. An agenda, including the specific mandate proposal, will be made available on Tuesday.
The commission has voted down two previous attempts to mandate masks and other preventative measures that were recommended by health officials. The commissioners have decided to consider another mandate after reviewing statistics on rising cases in the city since numbers have spiked county and citywide since Enid fully reopened on June 3.
When Enid reopened in June, Garfield County had two active cases out of 28 total. One woman had died from COVID-19. Eleven more people from Garfield County have died since then and as of Monday, Garfield County has 339 active cases.
