"A surreal experience"--that's how one Nebraska City official describes how coronavirus is affecting city operations--and life, in general.
Nebraska City's City Council held its regular meeting Monday evening at a different location--the Rowe Public Safety Center. Speaking on KMA's "Morning Line" program Tuesday morning, Nebraska City City Administrator Grayson Path says the location was moved in response to Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts' request to limit gatherings to 10 people or less, in order to practice social distancing.
"Local governments, with our Open Meetings Act, we have some rules we have to go by," said Path. "With that, we tried to respect the gathering numbers, while still adhering to the Open Meetings Act, we moved to the Rowe Safety Complex to kind of adhere to those social distancing guidelines--kind of spreading people apart. A bigger room, bigger setting, to give people a chance for social distancing."