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From YouTube: Mayor's Weekly Update July 29, 2020
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Mayor's Weekly Update July 29, 2020
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So
that's
a
in
terms
of
the
active
cases.
It's
it's
down
somewhat
from
104
yesterday
to
94.,
but
by
no
stretch
the
imagination
are
we
out
of
the
woods.
We've
got
a
long
ways
to
go
and
need
to
continue
to
do
the
right
thing,
which
is
face
coverings,
which
are
mandatory
in
the
city
of
athens
and
now
kyle.
I'm
sure
you're,
aware
of
this.
It's
mandatory
statewide.
Under
the
governor's
directive.
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And
kyle
just
purchased
four
face
coverings
for
his
family.
He
and
his
family
last
week
that
are
rather
interesting.
I
think
they're
pretty
cool
and
it
has
the
the
city,
logo
or
the
city
flag
as
the
motif
on
the
face
covering
itself.
So
I'm
sure
you
guys
have
been
sporting
those
around
the
city
and
now
that
shroud's
run.
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All
right,
thanks
again
kyle
as
usual
for
joining
me
today,
you're
welcome
in
terms
of
updates.
You
may
notice
that
there
are
going
to
be
some
wet,
slash,
potentially
slick
locations
in
the
city
streets,
in
particular,
columbus,
road
and
west
union,
where
the
fire
department
will
continue
with
their
hydrant
testing
and
flushing,
something
that
we
do
every
summer
and
do
it
again
kind
of
systematically
throughout
the
city.
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So
just
be
aware
that
on
columbus
road
and
on
west
union
that
there
will
be
hydrant
flushing
going
on
the
richland
avenue,
pedestrian
passageway
again
is
still
moving
along
and
looking
to
have.
The
passageway
opened
to
pedestrian
traffic
fairly,
soon
again,
we're
looking
at
mid-august
to
have
that
opened
up,
and
then
they
will
continue
working
on
the
roadway
and
the
crash
rails
on
the
sides.
But
again
that
project
seems
to
be
at
this
point
moving
along
nicely
and
the
weather
this
summer
has
been
pretty
conducive
to
them
being
able
to
stay
on
track.
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Friday
morning
and
will
follow
on
through
through
monday
august
3rd,
so
the
31st
of
july,
through
the
3rd
of
august,
milling,
will
begin
on
the
richland
avenue
roundabout
again,
this
is
the
former
traffic
signaled
intersection
of
682
in
richland
avenue,
which
is
our
our
first
roundabout
in
the
city
of
athens.
There
will
be
paving
going
on
down
there
and
hoping
to
wrap
that
up
by
monday
afternoon.
We
wanted
to
get
that
project
done
well
in
advance
of
ohio
university,
opening
up
to
whatever
form
of
instruction
they're
going
to
be
utilizing
this
summer.
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So
that's
going
on
and
then
you
what
you'll
see
is
after
that
project
or
that
portion
of
the
state
the
street
repaving
is
completed.
Then
they'll
migrate
on
to
all
the
other
identified
locations
in
the
city.
To
start
the
repaving
and
some
of
it
some
of
the
repaving
is
going
to
be
spot
repaving.
In
other
words,
they
may
mill
and
repave
a
section
that
is
in
pretty
bad
shape.
That
might
be
20
50
feet,
long,
sometimes
less
but
much
needed,
and
then
they
will
go
right
on
down
the
list
of
the
streets.
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It's
fairly
restrictive
in
terms
of
what
the
city
can
use
the
money
for
has
a
lot
of
guidelines
associated
with
it.
But
one
of
the
things
that
we
know
that
we
can
do
is
that
we
can
create
grants
to
create
relief
for
citizens
in
our
community
that
might
be
again
struggling
due
to
the
impacts
of
covet
19.
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So
there
will
be
more
to
follow
on
that
as
a
piece
of
legislation
comes
before
city
council
and
then
migrates
its
way
through
from
committee
on
to
the
regular
sessions
for
the
typical
three
readings
and
to
get
something
like
that
in
place.
So
that's
something
to
kind
of
watch
for
the
last
thing
that
I
want
to
share
is
that
I
have
been
on
multiple
meetings
at
the
federal
level,
discussing
with
congressional
staffers
ways
in
which
we
can
possibly
get
a
level
of
relief
or
alternative
ways
to
have
our
citizens
counted
for
the
2020
census.
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Those
areas
for
off-campus
student
housing
have
proven
to
be
pretty
difficult,
especially
since
the
students
have
been
gone
for
much
of
the
summer
as
well
as
last
spring
and
we're
doing
everything
we
can
to
reach
out
to
the
students
in
order
to
be
counted
under
the
enumeration
process,
but
we're
trying
to
get
some
relief
from
the
federal
government
from
the
census
bureau
in
different
ways
in
which
we
could
be
enumerated.
One
of
the
things
we're
hoping
is
that
we
have
students
that
did
list
their
local
address
with
the
registrar's
office.
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My
big
concern
is
ohio
university
students
who
filed
for
graduation
or
applied
for
graduation,
which
would
have
been
may
1st
and
2nd,
and
it
was
roughly
3
500
individuals,
those
individuals
who
graduated
are
likely
not
to
be
returning
to
athens
again.
Instead
have
gotten
employment
somewhere
or
gone
on
to
graduate
school.
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Our
street
improvements
things
of
that
nature,
as
well
as
using
money
in
our
more
distressed
neighborhoods
for
our
water
or
sewer
system.
The
money
also
goes
to
other
entities
such
as
jobs
and
family
services,
or
to
the
school
district
or
to
senior
services.
So
there
that
the
allocation
that
normally
comes
down
to
the
counties
which
is
based
upon
the
census,
we
could
see
an
a
a
pretty
large
undercount
in
the
city
of
athens.
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I
would
also
like
to
point
out
on
the
4th
of
august,
if
you
are
in
the
uptown
area
and
in
particular
on
west
union
between
court
and
congress,
please
look
up
at
the
honorary
street
sign
and
salute
john
sparrock,
as
we
honored
john
and
his
family,
with
that
honorary
street
naming,
I
believe
it
was
last
year
and
I
still
smile
every
time.
I
walk
by
the
hawaiian
shirt
colored
background
for
the
john
sparhawkway
signs
that
are
on
west
union
between
court
and
congress.
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So
we
can
continue
to
be
safe
and
again
looking
at
our
numbers,
we
had
four
an
increase
in
of
four
cases
today,
which
is
a
far
cry
from
the
29
cases
that
we
had
three
weeks
ago
or
two
weeks
ago.
Now,
where
we're
seeing
you
know,
double-digit
increases,
but
we
can't
take
our
foot
off
the
gas
when
it
comes
to
what
we
can
do
to
protect
others,
as
well
as
ourselves,
against
coveted
19.,
please
tune
in
again
next
week
for
the
next
installment
of
the
mayor's
weekly
update.