The City of Winner held their meeting last night. During new business, a motion was made to amend the resolution of ordinance 946 allowing restaurants to follow CDC guidelines to have 10 people or less at one time in restaurants and bars, to open up gyms quickly, to open up the city parks, the bass pond; but not to include the playground.

The city council voted 5-1 in favor of  the amendment. Councilman Sherman was the only nay vote.

The City of Chamberlain also held their city commission meeting last night. One of the items up for city commission vote was the extension of ordinance number 638 regarding the current COVID-19 restrictions that was scheduled to end yesterday.    Mayor Chad Mutziger expressed his desire during the meeting to extend this ordinance however during the meeting he  said that over the next two weeks before the next meeting they would be looking at ways to make adjustments to it and further more expressed his wish over these next two weeks to meet with various business sectors in Chamberlain as well as working the Chamberlain-Oacoma Chamber of Commerce to see how the city can work with them to find way of helping them opening up their businesses more on a case by case basis.  The commission voted 4-1 in favor of extending ordinance 638 to May 4^th.

The City of Gregory also held their meeting last night.  While no specific ordinance was discussed Mayor Anshutz during the meeting expressed his understanding of all the individuals and local businesses negatively impacted during these business restrictions and  said “We’ve just got to err on the side of caution”.