The chair of Weld County’s board of commissioners, Mike Freeman, told 1310 KFKA Radio that the county will not direct businesses to open, but it will provide guidelines for all of them to do so if they choose.

“This will be for businesses, in general, to open across the board,” he said. “I think the governor’s been pretty clear all along that his orders are unenforceable.”

Freeman also said, however, that this does not mean “business as usual.” The county’s guidelines include limiting groups to 10 people, keeping six feet between individuals, and a recommendation for physical barriers.

The county will also consider publishing more industry-specific guidelines for places like restaurants, Freeman told KFKA. He said commissioners will not tell long-term care facilities how to handle visitors, but people should remember that the elderly are considered vulnerable.

“I think [Polis] made it very clear that he expected local health departments and local counties to figure this out, and they would be the ones enforcing it,” Freeman said. “The main reason we’re doing this is I think we just believe it’s completely unfair to pick winners and losers.”

He added standards may vary by municipality within the county, where 1,263 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 70 people have died because of the disease. Weld County is home to the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, the site of a coronavirus outbreak. The plant is set to reopen Friday after a closure.