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Residents urge COVID mitigation in safety programming and press city to help resolve mobile‑network outages
Summary
Two public commenters asked the Mountlake Terrace City Council to broaden its community safety series to include airborne disease prevention measures and to press T‑Mobile for timelines after multi‑month outages that have created local dead zones near schools and transit hubs.
Mountlake Terrace — During general public comment at the council’s Feb. 19 meeting, two residents urged the city to act on separate but locally consequential public‑safety issues.
At the start of the meeting, a speaker identified only as Adam urged the city to add airborne‑disease precautions to the community safety series the city is rolling out. “Why do we think of safety primarily in terms of crime?” Adam asked, arguing that COVID‑19 reinfections can cause long‑term organ damage and long COVID that can lead to job loss and homelessness. He asked the city to…
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