
If Idaho moves into the second stage of reopening on Saturday, Mayor Lauren McLean says Boise will move along with it.
Unlike the state, Boise did not attach a timeline to its reopening plan. McLean said repeatedly that the city would move through its reopening stages based on the number of confirmed cases in the area.
Her health order two weeks ago required people to stay 6 feet apart until the end of May, a step further than Gov. Brad Little’s order, which only recommended the distancing.
The Idaho Statesman reports, that put Boise businesses like tattoo shops, massage spas and hair salons, into a spot where it looked like they couldn’t reopen even though similar businesses in other cities could.
The mayor said during a Boise City Council meeting Tuesday, “If the governor says the state can move to Stage 2, or if the health district is saying it makes sense in Ada County to move to Stage 2, then we would put into place” a new health order that would relax distancing restrictions slightly.
McLean said she was “cautiously optimistic” that Stage 2 would begin this weekend.