Mayor Nancy Vaughan issued an emergency declaration in Greensboro on Friday, Nov. 20.
The emergency declaration doesn’t include any restrictions in addition to the latest round of coronavirus executive order restrictions from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
But the emergency declaration by Vaughan does state that the city will begin enforcing the restrictions in Executive Order 176, the latest one from Cooper.
Up until 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20, the executive order restrictions by Cooper were not being enforced by the state or the city.
Guilford County Commissioner Justin Conrad asked, “What have they been doing up to now? At what point did this become serious for the city?”
He described the lack of enforcement as “a complete abdication of leadership.”
The emergency order states that offices and businesses found to have been in violation of the reduced occupancy limits by a city employee shall be fined $100 for each person over the limit.
The emergency order states that it will be enforced by “appropriate City employees.” Other than fire marshals, no particular city employees or departments are listed as enforcing the executive order regulations, nor was there any indication that these city employees would receive any additional training in order to become enforcement officers.
The regulations that will be enforced according to the emergency order are:
“- applicable capacity limits clearly marked at all entrances
– compliance with such capacity limits
– signage on all entrances giving notice that face covering, over mouth and nose, is a requirement to gain admission to an such office or business
– all employees who interact with the general public wearing a face covering
– any employee who cannot maintain social distance from other employees consistently must wear a face covering
– social distancing must be maintained as per the Governor’s order
– hand sanitizer must be provided”
Vaughan’s emergency order states, “offices and businesses found to have been functioning substantially in violation of these guidelines and orders shall be cited for such violations.”
Those in violation get one citation without penalty, but the emergency order states, “Upon the second citation, any such offices and businesses shall be ordered to close immediately for a period of twenty-four (24) hours.” The third violation will result in closure for 48 hours and any further violations will result in closures of 72 hours.
Mandate Nancy with the heavy handed enforcement just before the Holidays. I’m glad Greensboro doesn’t have a record number of unsolved murders this year so our officers can count the number of shoppers in each store and hand out fines to struggling businesses. What a terrible leader. Heavy handed and ineffective….but at least the crony money train is rolling, maybe some fines can offset handing money to councilmembers nonprofits of DGI container farm.
Exactly. Someone should follow these goons around and gig them everything they don’t follow their own mandate(s). This is ridiculous.
The mayor allowed the rioters to riot without any charges ! Now she is going to clamp down on citizens and buisnesses! Hypocrisy at its best.
Well Said!!
It is no wonder Greensboro cannot attract corporations to come here. The city and county are completely mismanaged
Thank you Mayor Vaughn for your leadership doing these crazy times.
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Yes, thank you Mayor Vaughn. For those who disagree Italy is offering free land to new businesses and other countries are in dire need of nay sayers who do not believe in science.
It”s time to end the farce
See the The Great Barrington Declaration
Moving as much of my business as possible OUT of Greensboro
Good for you, Alan! I’ve already moved all of my cash expenditures out of Greensboro. I still have to visit this God-forsaken city every now and then for work, but I won’t be spending any of my money there.
It looks as if Mayor Vaughn is wearing a crown – she must think she’s the Queen! With the numerous shootings and record homicides in Greensboro she should be focusing the City’s efforts on them rather than worrying if someone has washed their hands or wearing a mask.
This is all about her being able to say “I did something”. It is as sick as the virus; most politicians are just that.
I don’t shop a lot, but when I do, it won’t be in Greensboro. Thanks, Nanny Nancy!
They can’t stop people from parking in handicap spaces and fire lanes. We won’t even discuss speeders on Wendover. They needed another law not to enforce.
The Democrat-Socialist-Totalitarian Party is now enforcing rules with the Authority of “Shutting Down business that are not in compliance” of the Governors Order #176. This country is being taken over by the Totalitarian Rulers and we (The American public) are letting them. A revolution is in the works folks, and it will happen unless we use laws to stop them from their mad attempt at totally controlling everything about us. These so called “leaders” and Politicians should all be arrested by the people and sent to prison after a trial for TREASON and VIOLATING The US and State Constitutions !!!
Republics decline into democracies, democracies degenerate into despotism. Aristotle
World communism is coming quick folks. Covidcon is the biggest hoax ever pushed on the human race. In order to reset the planet to push the satanic one world communistic government they created Covid 19. It started with their Event 201. But ya know, it really doesn’t matter anymore. Social distancing, masks, CV cases, CV deaths, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work, lockdowns, all Freekin BS. Go back to sleep America. And, all the pastors are silent. What a bunch of pussies they are.
Wussess, pussies…..describes your average American now.
According to the latest numbers there are 1600 people in the hospital with Covid in NC out of 10,500,000 people in this state. That means roughly 99.9847% of us ARE NOT! Ridiculous does not even come close to describing these insane mask orders and shutdowns. Wake up people!
Yeah she can go fornicate herself!