HILLSBORO, Mo. (KMOX) — There could be more fireworks today at the Jefferson County Health Department Board of Trustees meeting.
In an effort to ward off more controversy, the chairman of the board and former longtime Jefferson County Health Director Dennis Diehl has released a statement about fellow board member Suzy Davis.
It reads, in part:
"She posted a statement that the Director is 'asking for mandatory masks with criminal penalties and fines' when this is part of a model policy that is one of many options the Board asked to see for consideration. She has persistently attempted to obtain privileged medical information outside of established channels."
Diehl says he wants to set the record straight and is calling out the newly elected board member for her erroneous claims and dis-information campaign.
Related: Jefferson County won't require masksRelated: More Jefferson County residents resistant to contact tracing Last week's monthly meeting lasted three hours, and Diehl alleges Davis told people the meeting was at a different time, causing them to wait in the heat. And she told them there would be a mask vote, which was not on the agenda at the time. Diehl also accuses Davis of trying to discredit Health Director Kelley Vollmar. Diehl says health decisions will be made based on science and research, not politics. Today's meeting is at 3:00 p.m. in Hillsboro at the Jefferson County Health Department and a vote on a county-wide mask mandate is on the agenda. It will be streamed online.
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