NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. — The Mayor of North Sioux City, Randy Fredericksen, tells Siouxland News that he is going to resign Tuesday.
Fredericksen said he is not happy with the way the vote on reopening North Sioux City went Monday night.
During that city council meeting, the council voted 5-3 to reopen businesses in North Sioux City.
Mayor Fredericksen says he is "dead against it" and wanted to wait until next Thursday to see if the number of cases of COVID-19 in South Dakota and Union County start to decline.
"I feel we are letting the people down, my phone rang off the hook to have this closed, at the time that we closed it, I thought we did the right thing and held the numbers down," he told us. "Right now the whole state of South Dakota and Iowa is a hotspot."
Businesses in North Sioux City, which include casinos and restaurants, can start to reopen at 50% capacity starting today.