Gov. Kim Reynolds hinted Monday that she would be making an announcement on Tuesday about reopening and extending coronavirus-related closures.
While we wait for that, some business owners are not allowed to reopen and also are waiting for what is next. Among those is salons.
Local 5 News: We know this has been a difficult time for salons. We have states around Iowa, including Missouri and Nebraska, that have been allowed to gradually reopen.
Are you hopeful that the governor is finally going to let your business open and welcome customers back?
Lacey Hurley, LH Salon: Yeah, we are hopeful. We're super excited to get back into this. My stylists are eager to work on our clients again.
We want to do it in the safest manner and we have a lot of new things that we're going to implement to keep our clients and staff as safe as possible.
Local 5: Social distancing: Give us an idea of what you think that would look like if you were allowed to bring some customers back into the salon.
Hurley: We have actually extended our hours. We will be open at 6 a.m. now to give ourselves a little more time to work on our clients. We're only going to have two or three stylists in here at a time so we can keep our numbers very low and keep stations open that don't have clients in them, and keep a safe, six-foot distance.
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Local 5: We hear so many people talking about 'I haven't seen my stylist in forever' and you know, 'My color's bad' and everything.
Are you expecting sort of like a little bit of a crush of customers with a backlog of needs that they have for you when you are allowed to reopen?
Hurley: Yeah, we are trying right now to hold off on booking until we get a for-sure answer if we're going to be able to open or not.
But I know that some of my stylists have upwards of 100 people on their waiting list. So we're gonna try our hardest to get everybody in and do it in the safest manner possible.
Local 5: In the event that the governor unexpectedly decides not to reopen salons ... how difficult would that be for you after everything you've already been through to have to wait another week or two weeks or something like that?
Hurley: It would be heartbreaking if we got pushed back again, but we do understand the safety measures.
I think the hardest part for us is seeing other non-essential businesses opening and keep putting us further back and back. But we'll make it. We want to keep everybody as safe as possible. And if we have to hold out a couple more weeks, that's what we're gonna have to do.
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