Cd'A council to meet Monday over mask mandate

The Coeur d’Alene city council will meet Monday to discuss the possibility of implementing a city-wide mask mandate.

The impromptu meeting comes on the heels of Thursday’s decision by the Panhande Health board to rescind its late-July mask mandate for Kootenai County. The move to end the mandate was made amid pleas by local health workers — including Jon Ness, chief executive officer of Kootenai Health — to keep the mandate in effect. The community hospital is currently at 90 percent capacity; Ness said at Thursday’s board meeting the impending cold and flu season and any surge in patients would likely compromise the hospital’s ability to provide adequate care.

The meeting will be held at 1 p.m. While The Press could not verify the location of the meeting, the Coeur d’Alene City Council typically meets in the downstairs community room of the public library.