RICHMOND — Since October, the spread of COVID-19 in the community has accelerated throughout Wayne County with the number of new cases and deaths skyrocketing even as local health and government officials plead with residents to wear masks and stay socially distant.
But the pandemic's impact goes beyond one individual's — or thousands of individuals', as the case may be — physical health. The problems caused by the disease have taken a financial toll on local businesses as well as city and county government.
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Mayor Dave Snow sat down with the Pal Item for about 30 minutes recently to talk about COVID's affect on the community and other topics that have been at the forefront of discussions this year, including systemic racism and a recent increase in youth violence.
This is the first in a series of Q&A articles taken from that interview. It focuses on questions about how COVID has affected city government and how health and government officials plan to enforce restrictions recently put in place by Gov. Eric Holcomb.
Tyler McKee prepares for a shift at the Richmond Municipal Building and police department. PI File.
The second article will be about how city government will operate with a smaller budget next year, the projects still to come and why so much of city government's focus seems to be on the downtown and Historic Deport District areas.
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