“Gov. Cuomo must amend his "yellow" hotspot zone to exclude Monroe-Woodbury's North Main Elementary School. The students and staff in the school have seen near-zero cases of COVID-19 since the school year resumed in September and the continued restrictions imposed on them fly in the face of science and reasonableness.

We need to ensure public health, but we also need our children to be able to properly learn and grow. The inclusion of North Main Elementary was obviously an unfortunate error. Were it located approximately 50 feet across the street, it would be out of the zone.

Given that North Main Elementary poses no different or additional COVID-19 risk than any other school in our region that is located outside these hotspot zones, I again implore Gov. Cuomo to exercise common sense and exclude North Main Elementary from the "yellow" hotspot zone. The children of Monroe deserve no less.”