The soonest the Haines Borough Assembly would consider a public mask mandate, if it follows Emergency Operations Center (EOC) recommendations, would be when the community has at least nine active cases or is deemed a “high risk” COVID-19 environment for other reasons.
At a July 30 townhall, EOC incident commander Carolann Wooton presented a document titled “Haines EOC Risk Strategy and Recommendations,” which identifies COVID-19 mitigation measures for various levels of outbreak including low risk…