* We’ve mentioned this outbreak already, however I didn’t notice that Chief Reyne can be the mayor’s coronavirus point person…
Twelve Springfield Fireplace Division personnel, together with Chief Allen Reyne, have examined constructive for COVID-19.
Thirty-seven Springfield firefighters in all are at present quarantined due to the virus.
Reyne has been Mayor Jim Langfelder’s level particular person for town’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* In the meantime…
The College of Illinois Springfield is suspending all campus actions by a minimum of Wednesday after 15 individuals on the campus examined constructive for COVID-19 https://t.co/zeWe582fST
— WMAY Information (@WMAYNews) November 10, 2020
* I’ve tried very, very arduous over time to remain as far-off from overlaying native Springfield politics as I probably can. It was a lesson I realized from studying trial lawyer Gerry Spence’s autobiography. When he purchased his ranch, he refused to get entangled in any native lawsuits. It appeared like a fairly darned good thought.
However the locals are actually making my vow increasingly troublesome day-after-day, particularly because the metropolis’s response to the virus is weighing closely on legislators’ minds as they’re requested to resolve whether or not to return to Springfield for veto session. The wager is that they’re not coming again, however we’ll know extra quickly.
* Gov. Pritzker was requested by Dave Dahl yesterday what he considered Springfield’s mayor eager to loosen restaurant restrictions whereas the county sheriff received’t implement the choose’s order as town’s COVID-19 level particular person has come down with the illness. His response…
I’ve been saying for a while now that we actually want native officers to take this extra critically, to take some accountability on their very own shoulders. The concept that you’re not going to implement the mitigations, after which the concept when it does get enforced with a quotation, let’s say, that the state’s attorneys not gonna comply with by on that…
I do know that domestically they assume that’s instantly good politics, but it surely’s good politics for a really small, very loud minority. The overwhelming majority of individuals need us to take robust motion with regard to mitigations and that takes accountability in any respect ranges of presidency.
*** UPDATE *** This city, man…
A complete of $799,156 in federal CARES Act reduction funding was organized by the Metropolis of Springfield again in Might of this yr.
Thus far, lower than half has been distributed, together with zero for small enterprise homeowners. […]
Langfelder mentioned an software course of for the small-business grants will likely be developed by the top of November.
