City of Southlake employees will no longer be required to wear face coverings inside city facilities.
After the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines last week so fully vaccinated individuals could remove their masks indoors and outdoors, the city of Southlake followed up by allowing its employees to remove their masks for good inside city buildings. This update follows the city’s previous change in March where it allowed visitors to enter facilities without a mask.
“The city of Southlake has followed federal, state and local health department guidelines throughout this pandemic and will continue to do so as we all move forward navigating the new realities of COVID-19,” Southlake Fire Chief Michael Starr says in MySouthlakeNews.com. “With widely-available vaccines and low local hospitalization and positivity rates, coupled with the new CDC guidelines issued last week, we feel confident that we can now allow our employees to perform their duties safely without continuing to require them to wear masks. Of course, employees who feel they need to continue wearing them may do so.”
In addition to eliminating the mask requirement, Champions Club at The Marq will no longer offer extensive midday cleaning, and the city will also no longer update Southlake’s COVID-19 case dashboard. Southlake’s COVID-19 cases can still be viewed on Tarrant and Denton counties’ websites.