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Council Discusses Reopening The City, Proposals For Homeless Camp

The Columbia City Council addressed how best to reopen the city when the time comes and protections for homeless residents during its regular Monday night meeting.

The city and county are under a stay-at-home order that is set to end Friday, although Mayor Brian Treece said Thursday that the order is likely to be extended.

Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Director Stephanie Browning echoed this thought at the meeting.

“The governor issued an order that goes through May 3, so it would seem to me that we will be doing something in parallel with that,” she said.

Treece read seven written comments submitted by citizens about the order. Three asked the council not to extend it, and four asked for the reverse.

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