Most of the city of Jamestown employees infected with COVID-19 have recovered and are back to work.

On Monday, Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist made the announcement during the Jamestown City Council work session meeting. He said there are some, about a dozen, that are still on quarantine, but don’t have COVID-19.

“Some departments are still impacted by it,” he said.

Sundquist said the Development and Finance departments are still being impacted by workers on quarantine. He said the Development Department still has some staff working from home.

“Other offices are back to normal except for a few COVID exceptions,” he said.

Sundquist said the majority of city workers who contracted COVID-19 did so during social events.

Last month, there was a “spike” in the number of city of Jamestown employees who tested positive for COVID-19 Sundquist, at the time, said the rise in the number of cases is across all city departments. He added as of Dec. 21, there were three employees who had tested positive, with 14 in quarantine awaiting test results. In October, there was a COVID-19 outbreak among city of Jamestown Fire Department employees. There was a high of eight active cases at one point of the 55-member fire department.

On Monday, Brent Sheldon, Ward 1 councilman, asked if the city’s EMTs had been vaccinated for COVID-19. Matthew Coon, Jamestown Fire Department deputy fire chief, said this week EMTs in the fire department will start to receive the vaccine, including himself. He said receiving the vaccine is volunteer and the process of vaccinating EMTs will continue the rest of the month.

Sundquist said currently only EMTs are receiving the vaccine and not firefighters who aren’t EMTs. He said firefighters and police officers will be part of a different “wave” of vaccinations of public safety officials.

“We recognize how important it is. Even though we don’t require it, we want to encourage our employees to get (vaccinated),” Sundquist said.

In other business, Sundquist announced he is recreating the Health Care Advisory Committee. He said the committee will consist of union employees and retirees from each of the city’s bargaining units. He added two members of the council will also be on the committee.

Sundquist said it has been many years since the Health Care Advisory Committee has met. He said the committee will look at all health care options.

“It’s important to work together to utilize union members, retirees and council members,” he said.