Sedgwick County commissioners may have to wait until next week — after the Fourth of July holiday weekend — to decide whether to overturn or alter an order expected from the governor to mandate masks to combat the coronavirus. Gov. Laura Kelly has announced she plans to issue an executive order requiring protective facemasks when people shop or gather in public, to take effect on Friday morning just after midnight. That puts the commissioners in a conundrum. A law passed in a recent special session of the Legislature gives the County Commission the authority to locally overrule any restrictive orders the governor issues in connection with the COVID pandemic
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