WINONA, Minn. — The City Council voted 4-3 to override Mayor Scott Sherman’s two-day-old indoor masking mandate. Sherman had exercised his executive power as mayor to create the mandate in response to a spike in Covid cases. The Council decision, Sherman said, could cost lives. “I know I made the right decision,” he said. How the Council voted:
To rescind
> Michelle Alexander, elected at-large.
> George Borzyskowski. 4th Ward (East End).
> Aaron Repinski, elected at-large.
> Steve Young, 1st Ward (West End and bluff neighborhood).
To support the mandate
> Eileen Moeller, 2nd Ward (West Side.
> Pam Eyden, 3rd Ward (central neighborhoods).
> Scott Sherman, mayor.
Sherman’s mandate had made Winona one of the first Minnesota municipalities to require masking since a state mask order expired in May. Meanwhile, the Winona County Board has an agenda item to empower the board to issue a countywide mask mandate.
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