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Enter Public Comment - All Public Comments are public record
I applaud the City Council for designating PINE CREEK RANCH as an area of Critical Concern and look forward to studying the required Professional Evaluations of the Impacts on the Natural
and Built Environments. In researching similar studies I am concerned that 10 days will be enough time to review a report that could easily be 100 plus pages, I encourage the city
to consider a more standard review period of 30 days. I am told that this will be the largest development in the history of McCall. There will be precedents set. It is imperative
that we get it right.
Council Members and Manager ,
Thank you for the choice on the Deer situation . Taking longer looks at things to me seems very beneficial.
Looking at Pine Creek Ranch with a critical eye and looking towards the greater good may not be a quick process but when you think of Indigeneous Knowlegdege and the effects of a decision
on future generations and our Earth seven generations from now critical care and thought with inteligent cohesive thinking and regard for our natural world . If a derveloper wants
X-amount of units on a piece of land that does not prove to be beneficial to the futre popualtion and our enviroment the shgould work towards what is best for the good . We have no
obligation to developers only nto the Earth and all the beings. If we only accomadate a short term goal we serve no one . I teccomendnd as always , how do we attain more "Indigenous
Ways of Being "? I'd defer to the people who have stewarded these land's for centuries for perspective. The illusion of white superiority has created more problems than can be dealt
with. We need to Pause it all right now and look at all of our current issues , resolve those before we take on new ones . Face it we are now out of control and a Pause may give insights
on how to proceed or not.
Thank you for considering and also seek public input because that is who you serve not Corporations of Developers..
This comment is regarding the proposed budget: Using 750k for the housing shortage, while at the same time raising property taxes is an oxy-moron. If you raise property taxes you make
our city less live-able for those that are owning property and less reachable for those that want to own property. During these times of price increases, I am all for city employee
cost of living (and always reward merit raises when possible). However the city is not going to be able to throw money at the problem of rising home prices because the money comes from
the citizens. In my opinion, to make the city more live-able for its residents, the the city needs get money in other areas. Tourism is driving up housing costs, so tax the tourism
rental market to help offset the cost of living here. Thanks for taking the time in reading my comment, Bryan
Council Members and Manager ,
First my apologies for sending my unedited draft last week . This may make more sense. Thanks
I Thank you for the choice on the Deer situation . Taking a longer look at things to me seems very beneficial.
Looking at Pine Creek Ranch and all development with a critical eye , for the greater good may not be a quick process but when you think of "Indigeneous Knowledge" and the effects of
a decision on future generations and our Earth for " Seven Generations" , care and thought with intelligent cohesive thinking , regard for our natural world should be used . Respect
the stewardship of centuries.
If a developer wants X-amount of units on a piece of land that does not prove to be beneficial to the future population and our environment they should work towards what is best for
the most common good to the earth and included community of the natural world.
The illusion of white superiority has created more problems than can be dealt with. We need to Pause it all ,
right now and look at all of the current issues we need to deal with , (Think Global Act Local) resolve those before we take on new ones . Face it we are now out of control and a Pause
may give insights on how to proceed or not.
You have a tremendous responsibility
Thank you for considering these thoughts and also please seek public input because that is who you serve ,not Corporations of Developers or their vested interests.
Re; selection of new City Council member, please consider Sean Gould for the position. As I reviewed the short notes in paper re: candidates, I'm concerned that Ryan Parke, whom I
understand also owns the Rustic Inn (obviously a special interest for development) is not ideal. David Petty too has a rather short tenure as a resident and his financial qualifications,
while important, are overshadowed by the very real need for Council members who have both historical perspective and interest in the future of the City and the overall advancement of
the community. Lyle is well known and committed to the community, and I've known and worked with him for years. However Lyle also has special interests that could influence his decision
making on the Council. David Simmonds is already working in very important areas that are becoming more vulnerable (the lake!) and he too would likely benefit the Council. Having
known Sean since he was a child, his educational background, clear intelligence, respectful manner of communication, and pragmatic approach to issues, I believe he will positively
and honestly assist in advocating for the numerous factors influencing our city.
I've recalled some of the effective Council members over the years and it seems that what they had in common was that they did not serve on the Council to better their own business and
financial means, but rather to advocate for the future betterment of the many and growing needs of the city and it's citizens. I believe Sean would be a meaningful addition to the
Council in addressing your many and varied challenges.
Thank you.
Linda Klind. 208-634-6989
As a primary permanent resident of McCall, I am opposed to ANY funding for the city to provide local housing incentives toward the so-called housing shortage. This should not be a
burden on the local taxpayers. If private businesses need housing for their employees, they should be providing incentives not the taxpayers. Thank you.
To: City of McCall Council Members
I am proposing that you think big with regards to the direct licensing of short-term rental homes.
Your proposal for $725,000 for local housing incentives is a start, but we know it is a drop in the bucket in terms of what is needed here in town for long-term renters.
One of the reasons we have a problem is that many of the now-500 short-term rentals used to be long-term rentals. Owners evicted long-term renters when they realized they could make
more money with short-term rentals.
If the City of McCall charged an annual licensing fee of $1000 for every short-term rental, it would add (at least in the first year), $500,000 to offer more support for local housing
incentives.
These short-term rental owners are part of the problem regarding our dearth of available long-term rentals. Let them be part of the solution, by paying a much larger annual fee than
is proposed.
Kind regards,Lynn Wood
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Lynn Wood, P.O. Box 393, McCall, ID 83638 Phone: 208-401-8075
I have just heard that the City Council is planning on instigating another ridiculous mask mandate in McCall starting Friday. I implore you all to stop for a second and first think
about the rights of the individuals. If people are concerned let them wear a mask, if they want a vaccine let them get it. WE ARE ADULTS and as such should be allowed to make decisions
on our own, based on information we believe and trust whether or not to wear a mask. It is an infringement on our personal freedom. EVERYONE should be able to make their own decisions.
Please please do not make this happen again in our community.
I drove a school bus last year and the mental trauma I witnessed on the kids because of masks was horrible and I myself ended up in the hospital with a stress related issue - NOT covid
related because of having to enforce something that was not good for any of us. Where is the logic?
If the vaccines are so wonderful why should anyone need a mask ?
Give us the freedom to choose, not to be treated like uninformed citizens.
I implore you to think logically and stop acting from fear.
We are against mandating masks for the city of McCall. It’s our right to decide for ourselves if we want to wear a mask or not. If you feel the need to do this to McCall again at least
give everyone the option to wear one but do not enforce it upon anyone. We are fully against the mandate and having our rights for freedom taken away.
Members of our City Council, I'm asking you to please allow local businesses to decide whether or not to mandate masks in their businesses.
Trust our citizens to make good decisions and where they feel comfortable patronizing.
Please take the tattling, name calling, animosity out of masks and let individuals make decisions. We need more trust in our local community.
Mandating masks in McCall fuels a fire of dissention that can be avoided if we give people control over their decision making.
Thank you.
I am writing today to ask that we do not reinstate mask mandates, for the city, but more importantly for our schools. We should be allowed the freedom to choose what is best for our
family with regards to masking.
Thank you for your consideration.
The whole mask mandate is wrong, we should be able to choose to wear a mask or not. It is our freedom to do so. Please consider to let us choose to wear a mask or not.
I am against reinstating the mask mandate. We have lived in this community for over 20 years & nothing has divided like you are now with these mandates. Please stop. No one is saying
you cant wear a mask but please stop forcing it on everyone. These mask are more of a health concern for my children trying to work or learn & wear a mask all day than the virus is.
Let everyone, from students/parents to business owners, make the decisions best for themselves when it comes to masks. Stop mandating masks. ESPECIALLY when the CDC and CDH are not.
Hello council members,
I do not live in the city of McCall but my children both attend school at Payette Lakes Middle school. We are close to the start of the new school year and my kids are looking forward
to going back to school full time.
I was extremely disappointed to hear that a mask mandate was being considered again this year and my kids were devastated. I am asking you, as decision makers in our area to please not
consider any mask mandate for the City of McCall. Each of us has experienced changes due to COVID 19. There is now a vaccine widely available, and effective treatments if someone does
have a serious case of the disease. Many people have already had and recovered from COVID. If people still feel the need to wear a mask, let them! But don’t make it a mandate. Our business
owners nor our police force need the extra headache in trying to enforce an unwanted mandate. Give people the freedom to choose by not enforcing a mandate.
Thank you for you consideration,
Johanna Defoort
I am against any form of mask mandate.
Not that we should even be discussing this, but the best peer-reviewed science says that masks have little to no effect on transmission anyway, countless samples of counties to states
to countries all over the world show zero correlation between mask mandates and no mask mandates having any discernible effect on infection rates and the biggest reason I am against
this is you are overstepping your bounds of authority to mandate a medical device to ALL people inside the City, regardless if they are positive or not for Covid, regardless of their
vaccination status and regardless of whether they can even transmit the virus.
Let people wear masks if they’d like. Let people get vaccinated if they’d like. That’s what government should do. LET US HAVE MEDICAL CHOICE!
Thank you.
Micah Haselton
I do not believe children should be forced to wear a face covering. I believe it should be the parents choice. My son has a really hard time breathing with them on. And it made school
miserable for him and my daughter! It should not be mandatory!!!
I own a business in McCall and will never enforce masks. You come in and watch people with their masks for a few hours. They are dirty, and nobody ever leaves them alone. All this
time and I've never seen one person not touch their mask while in my business. They constantly fiddle with them. Case counts are extremely low given the extremely high rate of people
we have in town. No deaths since March. You seriously want to damage people's health again with masks? My lungs are already damaged from it. I will not comply. How dare you tell people
to do something that can damage their health.
I say absolutely NO to a mask mandate for all levels of our children's education here the McCall/Donnelly area. There are no facts that this virus is nothing more the a flu strain and
all health issues and decisions of the health of my family should be taken up between my family doctor. Not by anyone or any agency that knows nothing about my family's our health issues,
our beliefs and definitely taking away my rights to making my own adult and mature decisions for my family.
It is time to allow people to make choices for themselves and their families, the school, city, county and state need to step back and stop the over reach. Covid is not going away, it
is like all illnesses. The constant mask, shutting down does nothing to help our people. People have lost businesses, many suffer depression and these mandates further the anger and
divide. With last years mandates we went to the valley and shopped, this stops revenue and employment locally and is not beneficial. Many children and adults suffered depression and
anxiety, we need to ask if this is worth it. Americans are not going to tolerate this again, we are standing up and fighting this. We went through one of the busiest summers here and
to say now the season is over let’s make mandates a thing is ignorant. Many hospitals are lacking bed space as they mandates nurses get the vaccine. Nurses have lost their jobs over
saying no and that leaves the hospitals to lower the beds available. Many nurses in the valley have come public with this, they are also tired of the lies. Stop the madness!
Masks as an option please.
As a resident of McCall, I implore you to refrain from imposing another mask mandate. Use the power of your elected office to protect the freedom of the citizens of McCall to choose
whether or not to mask up or not. It is our own responsibility to take measures to protect the health and safety of our family, not the local government.
Your decision on a mask mandate directly affects the students in the school district and my children and their education. In schools, mask-wearing inhibits communication and children's
social development, and has the potential to cause other health problems having to wear them all day inside of their classrooms. In other words they do more harm to the students than
the good intended. Parents should decide for their children what risks should face in the schools.
Please do not use the power that was loaned to you by the citizens of McCall at your election to impose unnecessary restrictions on our freedom. Trust the citizens that elected you
to individually assess and manage the risk of COVID-19 for themselves and their family.
I have been a resident of this community for 50 years. I grew up here. I have never seen such division and anger. That said….
Do NOT reinstate the mask mandate. valley county has a high rate of vaccination and the Delta variant is primarily with those not vaccinated. Breakthrough cases are few and with slight
symptoms.
At this point MASKS SHOULD BE A PERSONAL DECISION - NOT MANDATED.
Thank you
Faye Thompson
I ask the council to continue to allow the McCall public to choose whether to wear a mask. This is especially crucial at the local school level. Masks hinder emotional development
in young children, especially empathy, which has lifelong negative repercussions when not properly developed. As a speech-language pathologist I am concerned. When children cannot
see the mouths of one another and adults, this negatively impacts their speech, language, and social skills (this is especially unfair for individuals with disabilities such as hearing
impairment and autism). West Ada School District is allowing families to choose whether their child wears a mask; I humbly ask that we follow suit. There are health cases, both in
children and adults, in which a mask is ideal. By allowing the citizens of McCall to make their own choice on this matter, each individual can make the best decision for themselves/their
children based on weighing the health risks and the developmental risks. Thank you for your service and for taking the time to consider my concerns.
Please do not reinstate any mask mandate. The vast majority of people who dwell in the county are against it, even if only a few comment on public meetings. This is probably because
they are too busy working and being productive members of the community to fit it in. However, of the people I talk to on a daily basis, NONE of them want the mandate reinstated. Please,
listen to the people in your community, as public officials should.
I understand the council's need to review a mask mandate and the status of covid in our community. I also understand the information and statistics released by the CDC. The guidance
provided by the CDC should be reviewed but it does not mean it is was it is best for our community. Vaccines have been available to those over 12 who wish to have one. Others over 12
do not wish to have a vaccine, may already be protected from antibodies developed if they have had covid previously, or do not view covid as a high-risk disease. Those under 12 may
spread the disease but are not severely impacted by the disease itself. When does the pandemic end and what is an acceptable rate of transmission, hospitalizations, etc? Even if covid
is easily spread, most of us are protected enough to avoid hospitalization, or we are not concerned with the relatively low rate of severe cases. We need to define what our community
is acceptable living with. Like many other diseases, covid is likely to become part of the normal flu/cold season and we need to adapt to living with it. I do not think a mask mandate
is necessary. If people feel safer wearing a mask then be all means they can but it is not fair to force the rest of the community into doing so.
Mask wearing should be left up to individual’s it should not be Mandatory. As far as children the parents should make that decision on wether they wear masks or not.
Masks wearing should be left up to individual’s it should mot be Mandatory. As far as children the parents should make that decision on wether they wear them or not.
To the McCall City Council,
We oppose any mask mandate that will be put in place. Please do not force us or our children to mask up. While we live outside the city limits of McCall this will greatly affect our
lives and the daily lives of our children in the McCall Donnelly School District.
Thank you for your consideration,
Justin and Alisha Scott
I am a firm beliver that the mask is a personal choice. If you feel like the mask helps you then wear it. If you choose not to wear the mask then don't. We live in a free country and
we should be free to make the choice for ourselves. Sending our kids to school this fall with masks 5 days a week is torture and I think this was made clear at the school board meeting
on Monday. Please do not take our rights away by telling us what we can and cannot do. Thank you.
Strongly opposed to reimposition of mask mandate. Unvaccinated people need to protect themselves. They can wear masks if they want to, optional for me. Don’t abuse our freedom anymore!
I am against a mask mandate for school children. The choice should be up to the parents.
President Obama’s very recent birthday bonanza afforded Valley county an outstanding example regarding mask wearing. There is no danger going mask-less. He did not cover his face nor
did his wife, children, or 500 guests. Obama touched and hugged and posed closely with those he loved. Good for him! And lastly he displayed no fear of large crowds. Let us LIVE LIFE.
No more masks. No more lockdowns. No more distancing. Obama says so.
I am writing to OPPOSE any mask mandate you are considering for our city. I am a business owner, tax payer, and parent of children in our school district. By attempting to put a mask
mandate on our city is to go against everything it means to be an American.
I have a right as an American to decide what is best for me and my family. We make personal choices every day. Whether to wear a seatbelt when we get in a car, whether to drink and
drive. We have the right to make educated decisions, for ourselves. We do not need to be mandated based off of information that is completely one sided from our local Covid-19 advisory
board.
By trying to place a mask mandate on our city you will in turn be 'forcing' the McCall-Donnelly School District Board's hand to place a mask mandate on our children. I am very distressed
at the thought of my children having to wear masks for another school year. My kids complained of wearing them the entire year, not only at Barbara Morgan but at MOSS where they were
entirely outside. The masks are uncomfortable and devalue non verbal communication that kids so desperately need. Based on the research that my husband and I have done the facts are
that 99.9% of children do not get sick. And if they do, their symptoms are minimal to none and mimic the flu. Unfortunately there are 416 children in the United States who have died
from Covid, with underlying symptoms. That 416 is out of our population of 328 Million people. All of that information can be found on the CDC website.
Idaho state’s rolling seven day death average of Covid right now is 2 per day, down from 20 in January. There are far more things that are killing Americans per day than Covid, for
example CDC sites there are 1800 people that die from heart disease a day. And what about cancer?
In the last 15 months we have been told that as soon as there was a vaccination available then things would be opened back up. Why are we going back to last years restrictions when
people have had the opportunity to get vaccinated if they choose? Even with the delta variant, if you are vaccinated the CDC says it will lower your risks and/or symptoms.
Every Valley County resident has had the opportunity get vaccinated. That being said, if citizens feel unsafe and would like to wear a mask then that should be their option. If residents
feel safe and do not want to wear a mask, then that should be their option. There will never be a zero case of Covid. It is here to stay. And as an American, a tax payer and employer
of this community I do not need to be told to mask up over something that I do not fear.
Stop the panic and stop the fear. Live life. Place your faith, trust, and hope in God.
I would like to see the kids go back to school full time, my son did not do well last year. I believe masks should be up to the parents.
Please read a new (2021) study in the Journal of American Medical Association Pediatric section that states children should no be forced to wear masks. Randomized clinical trial in
a validated/peer reviewed journal.
JAMA Pediatrics. Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide in Inhaled Air With and Without Facemasks in Healthy Children. June 30, 2021.
Thanks for all you do for our kids. You have a tough job.
Living in a small community isn't always easy. We all know one another's 'business'. Sadly, in the past 20+ months, many of our McCall/Donnelly residents have shown their anger towards
one another when discussing masks. Businesses have suffered. Some people have suffered. Much of this we cannot stop as we are all human. What we can stop is over-reach by local (McCall),
County and State government. Please consider everyone in this discussion.Those of us who have had covid, have recovered (easily) would like to have the same opportunity to shop and
move freely in our 'free' world as those who have been vaccinated. Speaking of vaccines... if they worked why would you be wearing a mask? If the previous mask mandate worked, why is
the public having the vaccine jammed down their throats? Stop the silly, meaningless mandates. Let us Idahoans live the way we want to live.... freely. I don't need a city council and
mayor who have NO - absolutely NO - medical experience telling me how to live my life. Once you all graduate from medical school with your epidemiological expertise, then you can try
to convince me. But when there are epidemiologists and toxicologists telling us that these horrid variants are due to those people who ARE vaccinated... we all need to settle down and
take a step back. It's NOT UP TO YOU! Please vote NO on a mask mandate!
Policing masks are incredibly hard and often demoralized and it should be left up to the individual not any government entity to decide. Sure, masks are appreciated or heck if you’re
sick STAY home. Common courtesy and general kindness need to go a long way. You might find if this was simply encouraged and not forced you might catch more flies and people would be
more whiling to comply. I am an essential worker and you are complicating my day to day routine.
I do not agree with a mask mandate coming back into McCall. It is not the businesses jobs to enforce this so called mandate. If someone wants to mask up then do so, but it’s our responsibility
to make that choice. Again I am against this mandate as if affects me on a daily basis.
City Council Officials,
I am 100% against re-instating a mask mandate of any sorts. It's not your job to determine our health choices. There are many case studies that have been conducted proving masks don't
work.
It is your job as elected officials to listen to your constituents and I am one of them. Please don't play into the propaganda that our hospital is overrun, or any of them in the valley.
THEY ARE NOT. Masks do nothing but harm.
Thank you for your time.
With the Labor Day weekend approaching, I believe it is best for the city to follow the advice of health professionals when it comes to decisions regarding public health, including
whether or not to reinstate mask ordinances.
I support returning to a mask mandate for the city of McCall to protect McCall residents. People coming and going may carry the virus and not even know it. I was impressed with McCall
taking action during the first cycle of mask mandates, it showed leadership, courage and recognition of our medical professionals. Thank you for doing the right thing, then and now.
MASKS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED at any time for any reason in the city of McCall or Valley County!!!!!!!
The choice of whether or not to be masked is the only equitable option; whereas mandating one solution as “the” answer for every family presumes to know each individual’s level of risk
(from the virus or from wearing the mask, itself). This comes down to personal values, and the difference between a preference for 1) individual risk management & self-agency, or 2)
a preference for standardized compliance irrespective of one’s situation.
I noticed that the following is on your agenda for tomorrow: Covid-19 Update and Review of Mask Metrics Status. I would like to request that CDC guidelines be adhered to, particularly
in schools, which recommends universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status. It is so important to have in person
education this year, and to protect our children who do not yet even have the option of vaccination. Thank you for your consideration of this request, and thank you for your continued
efforts to address Covid-19 concerns.
Mask Mandate - Please reinstate face coverings, for our service works , elderly , children - infants to 16 years.There are to many people in McCall
Please do not mandate masks again in the City of McCall. It can be your recommendation but please do not mandate them again. Your decision will impact the children in the entire school
district. Make it a personal choice and not a government mandate.
Re: Covid-19 Update and Review of Mask Metrics Status. I would like to see our City, local businesses, and schools follow CDC guidelines which recommend universal indoor masking in
large groups, which includes our schools. We want to see our schools open with in-person learning hopefully without closures. Thank you.
Please don't implement the mask mandate. The dirtiest part on our body is our mouths. If you're sick PLEASE stay home.
I am against reinstating the mask mandate. Allow people to choose and live freely without being ostracized. These mandates are unAmerican and have no place in a free country.
I am 100% against a mask mandate. I just turned 69, healthy and free. These masks do zero to protect people from a virus. They don’t work and a mandate will cause more harm physically,
mentally and socially than good. Please say no
no masks. No shut down. Period.
I do not think the city should reinstate the mask mandate. If an individual or business would like to require it, that’s fine but when the city says it’s mandatory people get nasty.
They feel the need to go out and try to destroy the personal lives or businesses of some who disagrees with them. Let the people choose for themselves.
please read this
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449?fbclid=IwAR1nGuVgVnABkWsa22Uzd4ahzX1-Nv3PXu-rmJs1W63PeQjzOqHQKwx_-CA
My conclusion: Since research and studies show the PCR test is not accurate for detecting covid and produces false positives, the CDC is withdrawing emergency use for PCR testing, mask
manufactures and scientific research world wide shows masks don't stop infection, I do not support a mask mandate in McCall.
Research and facts below
:
CDC withdrawing emergency use of PCR test for covid 19 stating labs need to have tests for both the flu and covid 19. (PCR tests are not able to differentiate covid and flu?)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-labs-covid-tests-differentiate-flu
America's Frontline Doctors video on efficacy of masks video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmalcJ6WRA
Images - Mask product warning labels - does not protect against covid 19
mask boxes warning label at DuckDuckGo - mask warning labels images
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mask+boxes+warning+label&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politifact.com%2Fpolitifact%2Fphotos%2FLabel_Masks_screenshot.png
CDC website for employees and labs
Face masks are not intended to protect those who wear them from any biological or chemical agent handled in the laboratory and are not considered laboratory PPE.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/lab-safety-practices.html
CDC - Covid 19 diagnosis and statistics
Dec 31, 2020 CDC recognized PCR test produced false positives because of the number cycles -
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
CDC - Oct 2020 Tests for symptomic and asymptomatic accuracy rate 25%
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm695152a3.htm
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusion: The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community
with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/
Masking: A Careful Review of the Evidence
Conclusion: In fact, it is not unreasonable at this time to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are, have absolutely no impact on controlling the transmission
of Covid-19 virus, and current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. All this to say and as so comprehensively documented by Dr. Roger W. Koops in a recent American
Institute of Economic Research (AIER) publication, there is no clear scientific evidence that masks (surgical or cloth) work to mitigate risk to the wearer or to those coming into contact
with the wearer, as they are currently worn in everyday life and specifically as we refer to Covid-19.
https://www.aier.org/article/masking-a-careful-review-of-the-evidence/
Effectiveness of Adding Mask Recommendation to Prevent SARS-CoV-2
Conclusion: Wearing masks will not be effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as PPE.
https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/11/23/18/24/effectiveness-of-adding-a-mask
Mask Facts - AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Conclusions:The recommendation to wear surgical masks as a supplement to other public health measures in a setting of low infectivity rate did not reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
Do not require masks!!!
No mask mandate! Let us be free!!
We read with great concern the decisions being made during this budget hearing. There has been very little public disclosure and discussion about the exorbitant salary increase of 2
1/2 times for the council and Mayor. As volunteers on other Community Committees and Boards, we recognize the time commitments required to do the work of these organizations. Everyone
knew the compensation levels afforded these positions when they agreed to do them. To propose this level of increase during these economically challenged times demonstrates a lack
of awareness. We would recommend a more reasonable amount of $100 per month for both Council and Mayoral service. This would still be an approximate 20% increase.
As for the idea of additional 7% property tax on properties within the city, it is ludicrous to extract what in our own personal and business property values would equate to a 33% increase
in our property taxes. While the City talks about addressing a housing problem here, you then turn and look to add 1/3 to our property taxes. It makes no sense. Businesses here have
dealt with closures, restricted levels of service and a lack of employees hence restricting business hours, and yet the City expects them to swallow a huge hit to their bottom line
to fund more City expenses. The City uses nearly two thirds of the LOT funds collected to run its Parks and Rec. Dept. and is looking to grow its budget for other departments with
the taking of taxes on fragile family and business budgets. It's time we reassess whether we can afford all the services being offered and remember we can not afford to provide all
things to all people, whether they live here or are visitors/guests to this area. We ask you to live within the available 3% budget growth through the tax levy plan. We do not support
the 7% property tax grab proposed in this budget.
Sincerely,
Dan and Nancy Krahn
100% against masks. I went to Ridley's today, a few masks, but EVERYONE refused to social distance. People were hanging out, socializing very closely like the last and a half of our
lives didn't happen. Even the maskies. There is NO REASON to not social distance, masks or not. I used to get sick every winter, I have not been sick in two. I stay away from people
in public places, I wash my hands with sanitizer when I get in my truck after visiting a vendor, I use common sense. NO mask. NOT sick. Will not wear one again. Any vendor or city that
requires a mask will not get my business again.
If you are going to mandate a mask why not close down all hotels and Airbnb's besides delivery services for goods that are needed like grocery stores medical emergencies let only fulltime
residents from coming in to the community
I fully support a mask mandate for the city of McCall.
I implore you to truthfully weigh the costs/sacrifice against any perceived benefit fro mask mandates. I concede the outbreak looks scary on the news, but every town and jurisdiction
is unique. Factually, with the level of immunity that now exists from previous infection and diminished serious illness due to vaccination,once numbers start climbing, outbreaks are
already starting to subside. The data lags what is happening in the population. Citizens know enough to make informed choices about their health based on their risk factors and willingness
to assume risk. People that want to wear masks can and do. Shop owners that want to require them can. Twenty months into this, we have earned the right to personal freedom and responsibility.
All government officials should shift their focus back to ensuring individual freedoms are restored. It is mentally exhausting to make ME responsible for YOUR health. Please resist
the urge to implement mandates again. PLEASE do not take the easy way out. ALL freedoms matter.
I am totally against reinstating the mask mandate for the city of McCall. There is absolutely no scientific evidence or proof they help in any way.
I oppose a reinstatement of the mask mandate! There is no scientific evidence that masks reduce transmission of anything when worn on your chin, covering only the mouth ( most people
wear them improperly). We touch everything with our hands ( door handles, etc.) then immediately reach up to adjust our mask or remove it as we get into our vehicles. If you insist,
then let us fully vaccinated individuals be exempted from your ridiculous mandate. I say this as someone who just lost my youngest brother to Covid( Delta variant) on June 23rd. He
was unvaccinated, his wife who was vaccinated did not even get sick although living under the same roof. Why, I ask, should I be forced to attempt to protect people who will not protect
themselves? Just say NO to masking for the vaccinated!
Please reinstate mask mandates for the city based upon the recent trend of covid infection and hospitalizations. This is not a loss of freedom, but actually gives us the freedom to
safely pursue our lives and business in the current environment. We've sacrificed so much over the past 1.5 years - let's not throw it all away now.
Sincerely,
John Segar
The science shows that masks are ineffective. Stanford University has published this fact as well as any other physicist, mathematician or engineer. The size of the virus molecules
are significantly smaller than the smallest opening between the fibers of the mask...specifically the n95 mask. I have a B.S. in mathematics and a DAWIA 3 certificate in test and analysis
issued by Department of Defense...the highest certification you can get in the field. Please stop listening to the fear mongers. You are better off breathing freely and letting whatever
miniscule molecules you may have inhaled escape your body. The best safety is to distance from others. Whatever a mask let's thru, will stay trapped inside the mask when you exhale
and subsequently the mask becomes a Petrie dish for the virus to take hold and infect you.
Dear Mayor and City Council Members:
It has been medically proven that masks are not effective in preventing the spread of coronavirus. Please follow the science and do not impose another mask mandate.
Respectively,
Tony and Melody Kozlowski
McCall City Residents
I am strongly against the reinstating of masks. Here are some studies to that effect
1. https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/masks-dont-work-review-science-relevant-covid-19-social-policy-0
2. https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/607fd1afaab96830b63db9b5_Stanford-Mask-Study.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2e1NrHdSbWO4aHA0YiRojrXWsnO95iPWDA-xYt66mm59kaSqycEXqd_6s
3. https://www.thehealthyamerican.org/masks-dont-work?rq=masks
4. https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/alert-meta-analysis-65-studies-reveals-face-masks-induce-mask-induced-exhaustion-
5. https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/face-it-evidence-proving-effectiveness-community-mask-wearing-doesnt-exist-who-ag
I am a health care professional from a medically oriented family. Mandating mask wearing indoors in the city is just common sense. Please reinstate the mask mandate, and I appologize
for my fellow citizens who treat you with hostility and agression in an attempt to block another mandate.
I reside in Donnelly, but McCall City wide decisions affect my family because we reside within the McCall Donnelly School District. We also do the majority of our shopping in McCall.
I pulled my daughter from the school district last year because of the mask mandates, we also stopped supporting local businesses that enforced the mask mandates. I am reaching out
to encourage council members to vote against future mask mandates. I believe masks have proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus. Continuing to force people into
masking isn't helping peoples physical health, but it is causing mental and psychological harm to the adults and especially the children in the area. Whether a child wears a mask should
be a parents choice.
Mask mandates are bad. They hurt business and create a hostile environment in public places.
As a resident of McCall, I am writing to say that I strongly disagree with any mask mandate now or in the future. Any resident who sees fit to wear a mask, should do so, but that should
not infringe on a residents right to choose not to. While many feel it is safer to wear a mask, I strongly believe, as do many others, as backed by many studies and doctors, that a
mask does little to protect you and does far greater harm for ones health and immune system. Please know that the majority of our tourists will not follow any mandate, as we saw with
the last one, so any argument that is based on the need to have a mandate because of tourism, is flawed.
I am a grandparent of 3 youngsters who will all be in school this upcoming year and I wanted to let you know I am hoping you will not set a requirement/mandate for the city or for our
children of McCall to wear masks this year. These are decisions best left with residents and parents who know their personal situations and the needs of their children better than anyone
else.
My request simply comes from a common sense approach especially as it relates to kids being forced to wear masks in school. I believe children wearing masks and even most adults for
that matter, poses a much greater health risk than not wearing them. I would ask each one of you to pause for just three quick minutes and think about each child’s hands and how many
surfaces/things they touch in a given day and how many times they touch their mask in a given day...just think about where a child’s mask travels, is touched, is dropped, lost, found,
worn by another? Who knows, the list goes on and on. Now if you had to pick one single item in any classroom that contained the most germs and bacteria of any kind, I can’t imagine
any one thing having more concerns than these masks after you think about all the touches, drops and places they are set each and every day. After all these possibilities and they
are all real ones, then we ask our kids to wear these germ collectors right over their mouths and noses. If any one of you were to watch kids and their masks and what happens to them
in a given day, I can’t imagine any sane parent volunteering to put one of these things over their child’s face at the end of the day. Please think about all this as you consider what
requirements will really be the best health situation for our children. I truly believe the masks for our kids makes an already bad situation significantly worse when they place these
masks full of health concerns right over their faces.
Thank you for your time and consideration!
I am against having a mask mandate. I feel to wear one or not is a personal decision. Especially for those of us who have been vaccinated. Please DO NOT make our city of McCall wear
masks again. It shuts down all joy in this beautiful town.
Thank you
I vote against having a mask mandate because they didn’t reduce the amount of COVID illnesses in the previous mandates. This is a respiratory aerosol virus. Masks do not block and
cannot filter out the virus. It’s pure science. There are now more cases of rsv among children. The vaccine is not a cure. Our bodies need to build up antibodies naturally to fight
this and we aren’t giving it a chance.
If people want enforce everyone else to conform to their needs, then they need to change THEIR outlook. Find a job working from home. Get groceries by drive up. Change your lifestyle,
but don’t expect everyone else to conform to your needs and change their quality of life to fit your expectations.
I know that the City of McCall is deliberating on whether or not to impose a mask mandate.
I am posting the following article as part of the public record. This is just a small sample of information that is available regarding the wearing of masks, the effect on children wearing
masks and the effectiveness of masks in preventing the spread of a virus. Please note that this information is from a study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association.
I would urge you to allow individuals the freedom to choose for themselves whether or not they want to wear a mask and allow individual businesses the freedom to choose whether or not
to require patrons to enter their establishments with or without masks.
I am also requesting that you choose a larger venue for your meetings to allow all of the concerned citizens who wish to attend in person the opportunity to do so.
"A group of clinical researchers are urging policy-makers not to require children to wear face masks, after finding that such masks cause a rapid buildup of carbon dioxide in the air
breathed in while wearing masks, reported Arutz Sheva‘s David Rosenberg.
In a new study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks
in Healthy Children, Polish researchers found that within just three minutes, the level of carbon dioxide present in the air being breathed in by school children wearing masks was six
times higher than the legal limit of 0.2% carbon dioxide by volume (2,000 parts per million), as set by the German Federal Environmental Office. In open-air settings, CO2 levels are
about 0.04% by volume, or 400 parts per million.
“Many governments have made nose and mouth covering or face masks compulsory for schoolchildren,” the report says. “The evidence base for this is weak. The question whether nose and
mouth covering increases carbon dioxide in inhaled air is crucial.”
The air being inhaled by mask-wearing children was also five times higher than the baseline carbon dioxide level without a face mask, averaging between 1.312% to 1.391% depending on
the mask worn.
“A recent review concluded that there was ample evidence for adverse effects of wearing such masks,” the study concludes. “We suggest that decision-makers weigh the hard evidence produced
by these experimental measurements accordingly, which suggest that children should not be forced to wear face masks.”
The study also cited a large-scale study in Germany, published in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute this April, which found most children wearing masks suffered from
respiratory impairment, declines in oxygen levels, and increased fatigue, as well as more frequent headaches.
A large-scale study on face masks conducted by Copenhagen University’s Professor Henning Bundgaard last year found that “it would take 300 people wearing a mask for a month to protect
one person from getting an infection.”
The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine designed to test the efficacy of face mask wearing in protecting the wearer from contracting coronavirus, has shown that there
is no statistical significance to wearing face masks as protection against COVID-19 infection."
Choose Freedom over Fear,
Christopher Renfro
208-408-9150
Dear City Council,
I appreciate you are considering implementing a mask ordinance/mandate for the City of McCall. The delta variant is a whole new virus that is putting many individuals at high risk of
severe illness and hospitalizations. Especially children under 12 who are unable to be vaccinated. Not to mention those who are immune compromised.
Masks and vaccines work to prevent and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Case rates and hospitalizations have increased at an alarming rate and St. Luke's Health System is now pausing some services again. They are also opening new COVID-19 units and clinics
to care for those will long term symptoms from having COVID to care for patients.
What's different now and why are cases increasing? Less than half of Idaho's eligible population is fully vaccinated and we haven't been wearing masks for months. Not to mention the
increased amount of people in town. The virus spreads to those who are willing to host it, the unvaccinated and those not wearing masks.
You identified metrics to remove the mask mandate. It's time to reinstate the mask mandate based on these metrics.
It's sad we are in this place again. It's sad people fail to follow simple guidelines and wear a mask in public indoor spaces. If a mandate gets more people to wear masks, its worth
it. This is a preventable virus. Its a choice and their are consequences for the choices we make.
Please make a decision based on facts and not on the misinformation campaign and emotions of those who are ignoring the facts.
Thank you for your consideration,
Laura Crawford