Mayor Pete Muldoon called on all restaurants to close in-person dining at a special Town Council meeting on Friday and said business owners should pay laid-off workers from their own pocket.
After reading an email from a restaurant manager who said he would temporarily not allow dine-in service as COVID-19 numbers have spiked, Muldoon said, “I’m calling on restaurants to voluntarily close to dine-in” He said, “If you’ve got to lay off employees, pay them out of your pocket.”
Muldoon said that many businesses had a record summer and also received funding from the government.
“It’s time to pay that money back and pay it to your employees let’s give them a couple of weeks off if they agree to stay home and help flatten this curve,” Muldoon said.
Councilmember Jim Stanford agreed and said, “I would echo your call for people to voluntarily take these steps out of a sense of personal responsibility here but unfortunately that hasn’t been what I’ve been observing around this community in recent weeks and months people keep insisting on doing whatever it is they want to do.”
Stanford criticized residents that are participating in contact sports and after-school activities and said the State of Wyoming has not done enough.
“I feel for our district health officer who throughout this entire crisis has been constrained by state that aside from making testing available widely available the state is done very little to protect its citizens”, he said
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