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Senate transportation panel discusses socially distanced committee photo, masks and timing
Summary
Committee staff relayed photographer questions about location and whether masks would be worn; members favored the Senate steps, discussed spacing so masks could be removed briefly for the photo, and asked staff to confirm photographer availability for a proposed Thursday.
Members of the Senate Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs committee discussed logistics for a group photograph after advancing a bill.
Estelle, a committee staff member, told the chair that the Secretary of State photographer had several questions about the photo: the preferred location and whether members would wear masks and maintain social distance. “The first question is the location of the group photo. Choices are the house steps, the senate steps, the rotunda, or outside on the capitol front steps,” Estelle said. Committee members discussed the options and the chair suggested the senate steps as a suitable site.
On mask use and distancing, the chair said they wanted everyone to be comfortable and asked whether members would be okay spacing out so the photographer could take the image without masks. An unidentified member suggested arranging members on the steps with three on one side and three on the other so everyone could be more than six feet apart and still appear cohesive.
Estelle said she would check photographer availability; the chair proposed taking the photo before the Thursday committee if members could be assembled, and asked members to report any conflicts so scheduling could be adjusted.
The discussion recorded logistical preferences and scheduling intentions but did not document a final, confirmed date or a photographer time slot in the transcript.
