Mayor, residents sound off on mask usage before upcoming city council meeting

The Mayor is sharing his thoughts ahead of the upcoming city council meeting on monday where he will ask the council to consider extending the city's mask ordinance an additional 30 days.

In maryville.

We're under 24 hours now until the next city council meeting at city hall, where we will likely get a clearer picture on how the city will move forward on its mask mandate.

The mayor along with concerned citizens took time to talk to us today over what they'd like to see happen in the coming weeks.

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Joseph mayor bill mcmurray wants to give the council another chance to back him.i want the council to be behind me on this.

At monday night's city council meeting the mayor plans to ask the council whether they will support his resolution to extend the city's mask ordinance another 30 days.

Mayor mcmurray cites an increase in hospitalizations and deaths as his reasoning for the proposalwe're up to 35 deaths now in buchanan county, and so what it says to me is to be very prudent, be careful you know stay home more.

And residents seem to agree with the mayor, we spoke to some at the mall sunday.i think until the numbers go down, i don't see a reason to not wear one.

The mayor's extended ordinance would last until november 15th should the council allow it to take effect.mayor mcmurray says after that date, he would have to reassess the situation with advice from local experts.

What do the docs say, the physician leadership and you know what are our numbers looking like.extension or not, those we spoke with say they'll continue wearing masks, they're hoping recent developments at the white house will help those who aren't wearing them reconsider.

With the president getting covid, i'm really hoping a lot more people take it more seriousthe mayor once again saying if everyone does their part to keep the spread from getting worse, numbers could start to head in the right directionlet's just use these risk management techniques to do our best to get some of these numbers down and to protect one another.>> the city's current mask ordinance is slated to end october 16th.