Local Rip-Off Team asks Mayor to delay reopening of unlicensed cosmetic shops

As Key West gradually reopens, Mayor Teri Johnston is being urged to delay the reopening of unlicensed cosmetic shops until all social distancing recommendations are lifted.
 
Citing a business model that requires close contact and a history of consumer and city code complaints,The Key West Rip-Off Rapid Response Team is asking the mayor to delay reopening the shops.
 
In a letter to the mayor, the Rip-Off Team also asks no new cosmetic licenses be granted until the city commission can review the safety of these shops.
 
Full text of the letter:
May 9, 2020
Dear Mayor Teri Johnston,
We are requesting that in the gradual reopening of Key West businesses, a delay take place for unlicensed cosmetic shops. Shops that employ untrained, unlicensed sales people to apply cosmetics to a customer’s face and hands present a special high risk of unsafe contact.
By their very business model these businesses can not maintain current social distancing recommendations.
The health and safety of our citizens would be well served by delaying the reopening of these unlicensed cosmetic shops until all social distancing requirements are removed. We also ask that no city licenses be granted to new cosmetics shops until our city commissioners can review the safety of these shops sometime in the future.
These businesses have a long history of city code complaints in Key West and may not be following proper sanitary procedures or have necessary sanitary equipment in place.
Given the very close contact these businesses require and the history of past complaints, these businesses should be the absolute last to open.
We also respectfully suggest these businesses should be throughly inspected by the city and the county health departments before they are permitted to reopen.
Keys Strong!
Sincerely,
Tevis Wernicoff
Bruce Mitchell
The Key West Rip-Off Rapid Response Team
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