Carthage City Manager Steve Williams | Contributed photo
Carthage City Manager Steve Williams | Contributed photo
The Carthage City Commission held its first virtual meeting, but due to technical difficulties the meeting did not live stream on social media as planned.
“We obviously are not as technologically advanced as we thought were,” City Manager Steve Williams said in a statement, according to the Panola Watchman.
Carthage hopes to have all problems resolved by the next virtual meeting.
At the meeting, Williams said it was discussed that the city would split its staff into two groups that would work opposite schedules, according to the Watchman. He said the teams would work one week on then the next off to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The move is in response to one city employee testing positive for the coronavirus.
“That employee was not around anybody else,” Williams said in his statement. “They found out and so they let us know and they are being quarantined for 14 days at this time. So that’s our only exposure as far as the city goes.”
As of April 25, Texas reported 23,773 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 623 deaths. Panola County has 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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