04/21/2020
Update: Stay at home until May 18th, unless the Governor advises otherwise...
𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Tonight, Flower Mound Mayor Steve Dixon formally signed a fourth-amended disaster declaration that aligns with current State and County stay-at-home mandates. Without the Council’s vote to approve the disaster declaration extension, the Town’s current stay-at-home order would’ve expired tonight, April 20.
The new declaration goes into effect tonight, April 20, at 11:59 p.m. and will continue until Monday, May 18. The purpose of having the May 18 end date is to be flexible and align with any possible upcoming State and County extensions past the current April 30 end date. When appropriate, the Mayor will easily be able to rescind the order prior to May 18.
The May 18 date was chosen to coincide with the second Council meeting of the month. Any future extension of the disaster declaration requires Council approval. The Mayor and Council have all expressed the hope that they will be able to revoke the stay-at-home measure sooner, rather than later.
The fourth amended declaration includes the following changes from the previous version to align with State and County mandates:
• Except where modified by GA-15 (https://bit.ly/2RVmLqD), all elective medical, surgical, and dental procedures are prohibited anywhere in the Town of Flower Mound. Hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, dental offices, and other medical facilities are directed to identify procedures that are deemed “elective” by assessing which procedures can be postponed or canceled based on patient risk considering the emergency need for the redirection of resources to COVID-19 response.
• Starting at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 24, retail services that are not “essential services,” but that may be provided through pickup, delivery by mail, or delivery to the customer’s doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS, may operate strictly in accordance with GA-16 (https://bit.ly/3apHbP0).
• Golf: Guidance from the Texas Attorney General has interpreted GA-14 (https://bit.ly/2wT3per) to allow that some elements of golf course business may provide “essential services” under GA-14 and the federal CISA Guidance it adopts. Golf Courses within the Town may operate in strict accordance with revised Disaster Declaration and Executive Order for Denton County in response to COVID-19 dated April 14, 2020, or as amended.
The declaration extension by Flower Mound officials is to support the effort to help save lives and flatten the curve of community spread of COVID-19 in Denton County. Please visit the Town’s coronavirus webpage at www.flower-mound.com/covid19 for more information. To view the Town of Flower Mound’s fourth amended disaster declaration, please visit https://bit.ly/2xNvxQB.