In Plymouth, the Board of Health discusses the opening of town buildings to the public and the many preparations necessary in age of COVID-19.
Bobbi Clark has more:
Public Health Director Karen Keane told Board that buildings have been open, but not to the public:
“We’ve been working—the buildings have been open to the employees.”
The focus of the discussion was town hall, and the safety measures required for interacting with the public, such as installing Plexiglas that will separate staff and the public:
“We’ll be doing that in all offices that deal with the public. We’re putting hand sanitizer stations throughout all of our buildings.”
Signage reminders about masks, hand-washing, social distancing will be present and under consideration is a plan for contact tracing and that would involve taking the names of those entering the building:
“So, we will know that someone in this department has now tested positive for COVID-19, we will now go back and be able to see who from the public was in that department and at what time, so we can do our own contact tracing.”
Also discussed, the sanitizing of pens, monitoring of access to elevators, possibility of town hall open to the public only on specified days. Selectmen raised the issue of the opening of public buildings at their meeting last week, but no action was taken.
