CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – County and city agencies are cracking down this week on businesses not taking the mask order seriously in Montgomery County.
The city and county Building and Codes Departments, working with Clarksville Police and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, will visit businesses and ensure they have signs posted requiring customers to wear masks, County Mayor Jim Durrett said in a Clarksville’s Conversation interview on Tuesday.
“We’re stepping up our enforcement of the mandate, particularly businesses that don’t have signs that require masks,” Durrett said. “I’ve seen too many of them. Our numbers are going too high. Our hospitalizations are continuing to go up, obviously our new cases it seems like set a new record every day not only in Montgomery County but in the state of Tennessee.”
Durrett said city and county agencies will try to visit each of the businesses by Friday, bringing signs with them for the businesses to use.
“I think everybody needs to step it up a notch,” he said.
In the conversation with Clarksvillle’s Conversation‘s Katie Gambill, Charlie Koon and Chris Smith, Durrett also talked about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the state of the Multi Purpose Event Center construction, recent discussions about the landfill fee and plans for the new middle school on Rossview Road.