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Henry County board rejects shelter-in-place order

The Henry County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance to address the COVID-19 crisis.
The Henry County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance to address the COVID-19 crisis.
By Monroe Roark
March 31, 2020

The Henry County Board of Commissioners convened March 27 for its second called meeting in four days and passed an ordinance intended to strengthen its previous resolution addressing the COVID-19 crisis.

The meeting was originally scheduled to consider a shelter-in-place order, but that was not addressed. The initial resolution passed March 24 by a 4-2 vote, with Johnny Wilson and Vivian Thomas voting in opposition because they wanted to see a possible shelter-in-place option. Dee Clemmons and Bruce Holmes made it clear then that they were opposed to that action, and neither of them attended the second meeting in which the ordinance passed 4-0.

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