Guadalupe County businesses are facing new restrictions including reduced capacities and some closures following an increase in hospitalizations in the area.
Restaurants will have to reduce capacity from 75% to 50% and bars will have to close due to the guidelines laid out by Texas Gov. Greg Abbottâs GA-32 Order.
County officials received information that its trauma service area had exceeded the 15% of hospital capacity of COVID-19 patients for the past seven days.
âThe Governorâs Executive Order (GA-32), which went into effect on October 14, 2020, allowed bars to reopen and businesses to operate at 75% capacity, except in areas with high COVID-19 hospitalization rates,â a news release from the county said. âThe Order defines areas with high hospitalizations as âany Trauma Service Area that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity exceeds 15 percent.ââ
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(Seguin) Additional COVID-19 restrictions are back in place for some local businesses, because the hospitalization rate has gone up in this region. This means that restaurants will again have to reduce their capacity, and it could also force some bars to close completely.
Bryce Houlton, Guadalupe County Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator, delivered the news during Tuesday’s meeting of the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court. Houlton says the number of positive COVID-19 cases is again on the rise.
“As of (Tuesday) morning, (the) confirmed active cases in New Braunfels (was) 18, 42 in Cibolo, 50 in Seguin, 30 in Schertz, three in Marion, one in Selma and 81 in the unincorporated areas for a confirmed active total of 225. Our office has been seeing between 300 and 375 cases a day coming into our office. That’s between new cases and recovered cases. It seems like the state is constantly doing dumps
Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Dec 28, 2020 12:00 AM
(Seguin) – Guadalupe County will soon welcome a new human resources director. The Guadalupe County Commissioners Court recently appointed Leticia Mejia as the county’s new HR director. Mejia was selected from a pool of applicants all looking to fill the shoes of longtime HR Director Cheraun Blankenship. Blankeship, who was eligible for retirement in years with the county, has moved on and has accepted a job with the Texas Association of Counties.
Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher says Mejia bring years of experience to the county’s operation.
“Leticia Mejia was selected by the court as the new human resources director for the county. Ms. Mejia comes from Bexar County Sheriff’s Office with experience in HR, is an HR supervisor, has quite a bit of education and then based on her interviews has a passion for creating policies and supporting and promoting employment within the agency or entity that she is involved in
Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Dec 21, 2020 9:11 PM
(Seguin) – Each year, the top elected official in the city of Seguin and Guadalupe County extend their heartfelt season’s greetings to the constituents in which they serve. This year, those messages by new Seguin Mayor Donna Dodgen and Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher also include a strong reminder to stay safe.
Dodgen says while things are different, she is confident that citizens will continue to come together.
“I really truly wish all of us peace and I know that we’ve had a difficult time this year and that family, our community is so important, and I want it to be filled with love and happiness. You know, we in the city really want everyone to wish everyone a happy holiday and want everyone to see each other as a family and as a community and it’s the peace of the season this year that I think is most on my mind that we need peace and we need calmness and so that’s what I really hope for people and I want eve