City of Athens, Ohio Mayors Press Conference 2021, 10 Mar 2021

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From YouTube: Mayor's Weekly Update - March 10, 2021

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Mayor's Weekly Update - March 10, 2021

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Good afternoon and welcome once again to the weekly update with the mayor and with kyle johansen, um I am uh speaking to you live from my house today um and I was in the city building this morning and when I left to come here for the broadcast, I noticed that it is incredibly nice outside um kyle. What is what's today's weather and what is the seven day outlook.

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So today we look for partly cloudy skies with a high of 71. tonight, cloudy skies early, followed by partial clearing low 53 tomorrow, cloudy high of 70..

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Tomorrow night's rain rainfall near half an inch low of 50 friday morning, showers high of 62.

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friday nights, mostly cloudy well 34 saturday, mostly cloudy high of 55 saturday night, partly cloudy 12 31 sunday, mostly cloudy high of 51, sunny nights showers, late low 31, chance of rain 40 percent monday rain freezing rain high of 51.

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monday night showers above 37, tuesday showers, high 55, tuesday nights, partly cloudy 12, 35 and next wednesday morning, showers, a high of 56 and a low of 37 with showers late.

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Nice getting warmer so kyle, we typically spend some time talking about covet, 19 updates, um but before we get into that um march, 13th is uh daily savings.

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There you go daylight savings time and again that is spring forward, so we're going to lose an hour, but we just wanted to get that out there and make sure people were reminded. It's also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors so kyle. Let's talk uh give us an update on covet 19. Please.

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So today there have been and sixty eight new colonial virus cases in the state of ohio in the last 24 hours approaching 17 600 deaths nationally over 29 million cases in over a quarter of them over 525 000 deaths globally. There are now over 117 million cases and roughly approaching 2.9 million deaths, and now we have a vaccine mass clinics coming in the state of ohio, beginning next wednesday in 15 sections, cleveland, columbus, mansfield dayton, cincinnati, chillicothe, akron wheeling and all the other little royal areas.

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And then there's the mobile vaccine unit that is going to be deployed, there's four of them across the state and athens will have a mobile vaccination clinic and, as I understand it, it will be the um j and j vaccine to where we can get that out into some of the the areas that certainly um have difficulty in trying to find transportation to get into athens county or to pharmacies throughout the county uh into athens city. Rather, so that's great news too for the the city of athens.

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I don't have today's numbers, but as of yesterday, we were down to 187 positive cases. We have not been below 200 in a long time, and that is with seven new cases and uh uh several recovered cases.

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So it's uh that's always great to see that our numbers appear to be steadily dropping. But again I say this every time it doesn't mean that we are anywhere near uh out of the woods or into a safer place, so we just gotta keep wearing a face covering and protecting each other um kyle athletics. What's going on at ou sports within ou sports.

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So today, the all oil women's basketball team is in cleveland for the mac tournament first round. Tomorrow the men's are at the mad tournament. First round, friday's men's and women's are for the semifinals and then saturday, it's the actual finals for basketball and soccer is back at home at chesterfield or penis city at 4 p.m, and volleyball is back home next wednesday.

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And who are they playing.

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Soccer is pointing against that grand and volleyball's pulling against toledo toledo.

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Should be a good game, all right kyle. Thank you very much as usual for joining me and giving us the weather, coveted 19 and ou sports and other sports updates. I really appreciate it. Yep see you next week see you next week kyle.

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um We have some pretty important information to share with you today um and again. Don't have a lot of updates, but always good to bring these things forward. The athens city county health department has announced that they are now scheduling.

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Vaccination, appointments for people, age, 50, plus 50 or older, also individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, pregnant women, individuals who are bone marrow transplant recipients, individuals with als and individuals with end stage renal disease, as well as individuals who are working in the child care services sector, which is, is a new update.

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I know that we've got a lot of preschools and day cares throughout the city, so child care service workers will be eligible to get that vaccine, which again is great news. um You can always call down to the health department, and I believe this is where you would call to schedule as well at 592-4431 again the athens city county health department to schedule a vaccination appointment.

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If you are eligible at 592-4431, some updates from engineering and public works, franklin avenue is going to have a closure, and that will be march 16th, which is tuesday from 8 am until it's completed. This will be closed to local traffic and emergency services.

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Parking will also be removed in the immediate area of a.

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This is, I believe, a storm sewer line repair on franklin avenue uh as usual. Any questions about anything engineering and public works related. Please call.

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593-7636 some general news utility billing office has resumed the selling of the athens public transit bus passes. So uh if you are an avid ethics, public transit writer and want to get your pass, you can certainly do so. I just would encourage you to call to make an appointment for the utility billing office to meet with you. The uh you may purchase these wednesdays and thursdays from 10 a.m. To noon so call in advance to set up something with utility billing to come down and pick up.

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Your bus passes, uh parks and rec has several things that they are announcing, uh they're, introducing the muscle up challenge. uh This challenge will run the entire month of march, and all you need to do is go to the front desk to sign up, or I'm sure that you can call 592-3325 and and register that way or you can probably go online and register online through the community center.

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um The uh oh and the other thing for arts parks and rec is they have their new spring 2021 activity brochure hot off the press. So um I would encourage you to check that out as well uh as they say. There's something for kids and adults alike. um And you can view that by going to.

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Www.Ci.Athens.Oh.U.S and look at the spring 2021 activity brochure for the community center and likely all things, arts, parks and recreation, the city of athens, we're currently hiring- um and this is uh arts parks and recreation specific, I believe, but uh they're currently hiring for seasonal positions, lifeguards pool cashiers summer day, camp counselors park, maintenance and cemetery maintenance. So, if you're interested in any of those seasonal positions, please contact the city at 592-3367.

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Again, that's five, nine, two, three three six seven! um This is that time of year, when we are, are really starting to ramp up our seasonal employees. For things like the swimming pool, which will is scheduled to be opened this summer upcoming meetings, we have the municipal arts commission is going to be meeting today this evening from 5 30 to 7 00 pm.

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The regional planning commission is meeting tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.

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um I will be at that meeting shade tree commission is meeting on the 11th at 7, 00 p.m and at the city council as usual, except for the fifth friday of the month, we'll be meeting at 7 p.m. March, 15th. So this coming monday, that's pretty much all I have for today um as kyle.

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It indicated it's really pleasant outside so hopefully you're taking advantage, but we will be seeing some precipitation, I'm sure over the next several days, but regardless enjoy now continue to wear a face mask please when you're out in public or entering into a business that is open to the public and keeping the mask on social distance as best you can and um stay healthy. Please stay healthy stay, safe, have a great rest of your week and hopefully you'll tune in again next week.