The Andover City Council voted 1-5 against enacting an ordinance mandating the wearing of facemasks in public during their last meeting on Tuesday, July 14. The ordinance mirrored what the Wichita City Council passed on Friday, July 3. Council Member Shelby Carselowey was the only one who voted in favor of the ordinance. “I don’t feel like we are, in our city, in such a state that we should require [a mask mandate],” Council Member Troy Tabor, who voted against the ordinance, said at the meeting. “I really have confidence in our business owners, we don’t have nearly as many businesses as Wichita, or East Wichita or even a single street in Wichita. We don’t, and the businesses I’ve been to, most of them require masks anyway. And therefore I feel like our citizens and to trust our business owners. I don’t think it’s okay for a mandate at this point.”
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