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From YouTube: Mayor's Press Conference - December 15, 2021
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Mayor's Press Conference - December 15, 2021
A
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
once
again
to
the
weekly
update
with
the
mayor
and
with
kyle
johansen
a
little
bit
different
today,
as
you
may
notice
when
well,
I
guess
you
won't
be
panning
at
all.
Kyle
is
not
here
in
the
council
chambers
with
me,
but
kyle
is
attending
a
game,
an
ou
game
at
the
convo
center,
so
kyle.
I
know
that
you're
out
in
the
fairly
nice
weather.
Do
you
want
to
give
us
an
update
on
the
weather,
coveted
19
and
possibly
give
us
an
update
on
the
marshall
game?
That's
going
on
this
afternoon.
B
in
the
last
24
hours
in
ohio,
there
have
been
over
10
thousand
new
positive
chronovirus
cases,
backlog
of
the
delta
variance
church,
but
so
far
the
two
cases
of
the
overclock
variant
is
in
ohio
and
it's
only
more
of
a
common
cold
deadly
death
ovarian
which
is
good,
and
that's
the
good
news
that
the
united
states
has
reached
to
61
of
the
purge.
Humidity
marks
are
only
19
left
to
reach
the
hurt
humidity
mark
and
oh
yeah
course.
We
got
the
marshall
game
tonight
at
p.m.
B
Tip-Off
time
it's
a
big
rivalry
game,
so
it'll
be
a
good
game
to
watch
at
10
p.m.
Enjoy
this
nice
people
after
violent
last
and
we
got
home
back
at
home
again
on
tuesday
against
usc
upstate
at
noon,
and
then
we
got
men's
game
back
home
for
the
first
match
game.
I
guess
eastern
michigan
on
the
28th,
the
first
back
game
of
the
2021
2022
season,
and
then
we
got
a
woman's
home
game
on
new
year's
day
at
1pm
january
1,
2022.
A
A
Other
things
covet
19
related
ryan.
Thank
you
for
throwing
this
up
and
scott
for
sure.
Government
channel
always
does
an
outstanding
job
of
keeping
our
citizenry
at
least
up
to
date
on
things
going
on,
and
so
you
can
see
by
our
chart
that
51.29
percent
have
started
the
vaccine
here
in
athens,
county
47.93
that
have
completed
their
vaccine.
A
You
know
way
back
when,
when
I
say
way
back
when
in
2020
I
was
always
shocked
to
see
the
number
of
people
who
succumbed
to
covet
19,
you
know
in
other
counties.
You
know
I
remember
watching
closely
in
fairfield,
county
and
washington
county
and
looking
at
the
numbers,
not
just
their
cases,
but
their
fatality
counts
and
at
the
time
we
were
so
low
and
it's
it's
always
heartbreaking
to
see
the
our
death
rate
continue
to
climb
and
now
be
at
a
number
of
99
individuals
who
have
succumbed
to
the
coronavirus.
A
This
is
great.
You
know
the
at-home
test.
This
just
came
to
us
from
the
athens
city,
county
health
department,
and
you
know
the
importance
of
having
the
test
protocol
and
monitoring
according
to
the
instructions
on
the
package.
Read
the
instructions
carefully.
I
don't
know
if
the
the
public
library
system
is
still
giving
out
the
covet
19
tests
it
we
have,
I
have
done
it
in
the
past.
It
is
fairly
straightforward
in
terms
of
what
you
need
to
do.
A
A
Yet,
although
I
would
suspect-
and
all
the
news
that
I
have
heard
from
dr
fauci-
is
that
it
you
know
it's
it's
not
a
matter
of
if
it's
when
and
likely,
because
of
the
way
it
gets
picked
up
in
terms
of
the
different
variants
that
it
likely
is
here,
but
anyway,
there's
some
more
info
for
you
when
it
comes
to
the
test
kits
that
are
available
and
there
you
have
it.
The
library
does
have
them
so
encourage
people
if
you're
gonna
be
gathering
to
to
grab
some
of
those
tests
and
use
them.
A
So
traffic
is
going
to
be
maintained,
but
you
know
there's
going
to
be
some
temporary
parking
closures
as
well
as
lane
closures
that
will
be
placed
within
that
work
zone
itself.
So
just
keep
that
in
mind
that
this
is
going
on
down
on
south
shaffer
street,
between
west
washington
and
west
union
street
sanitary
sewer
line
smoke
testing
that
is
going
on.
A
I
went
through
this
last
week,
but
it's
easy
to
do
again
and
that
there
will
be
smoke
testing
on
utah
strathmore,
graham
charles
euclid,
avon
dalton
jacobs,
as
well
as
grand
park,
eden,
place
and
townsend,
and
also
on
cook,
drive
and
east
state
street.
So
they're
going
to
be
looking
at
the
integrity
of
our
sanitary
sewer
lines.
So
if
you
see
any
smoke
rising
in
any
of
those
locations,
please
make
note
that
that's
what
they're
working
on.
A
Free
parking
every
thursday
after
five
and
all
days
on
saturday
throughout
the
month
of
december.
This
is
something
that
I
know
council
hustled
to
get
through,
so
that
we
could
have
free
parking
on
thursdays
and
saturdays
for
people
to
shop
shop,
local.
I
started
pushing
out
things
today,
reminding
people
to
shop
local
during
the
holiday
months
holiday
month,
and
this
free
parking
will
hopefully
help
facilitate
your
shopping
local,
at
least
in
the
uptown
area
holiday
tree
pickup.
A
A
Take
your
decorations
down,
take
off
the
tree,
stand
and
haul
your
former
live
tree
down
to
the
curb,
but
not
without
calling
the
engineering
and
public
works
department
first
at
593-7636,
and
let
them
know
that
you
have
a
christmas
tree
for
pickup
and
they
will
take
it.
We
mulch
them
and
we
use
it
for
a
sundry
different
things
to
include,
if
appropriate,
in
terms
of
a
material,
the
community
garden
down
at
west
state
street
park.
A
A
They
have
been
working
in
earnest
throughout
the
city
of
athens
and
this
year
there's
a
number
of
streets
over
in
the
far
east
neighborhood,
certainly
a
lot
of
streets
on
the
south
side
that
they
are
kind
of
honing
in
on
this
time
around,
as
well
as
the
near
east
neighborhood
with
morris
montrose
ondis
and
a
number
of
other
streets
in
that
area.
Wallace,
verona
and
whatnot.
So
tree
trimming
by
asplund
is
going
on.
A
It
was
it
was
a
good
meeting,
a
lot
of
comment
and
commentary
that
took
place
at
the
meeting,
but
council
will
not
be
meeting
monday
and
will
not
be
meeting
again
until
january
3rd,
7
pm
here
in
council
chambers
the
recreation
advisory
board.
They
will
be
meeting
tomorrow
evening,
the
16th
of
december
from
5
30
to
6
30
pm
at
the
community
center.
They
will
be
in
room
c
at
the
community
center,
so
that
is
open
to
the
public,
so
encourage
people
to
attend
that.
A
The
last
couple
things
that
I
wanted
to
share
is
that
tomorrow
I
will
be
attending
the
ohio
mayor's
alliance
meeting
up
in
columbus.
The
interesting
thing
with
that
meeting
is
that
I
think
we're
going
to
be
seeing
more
and
more
of
this.
This
type
of
meeting
that
I
had
to
demonstrate
my
being
fully
vaccinated
by
taking
a
photo
of
my
vaccination
card
and
sending
it
up
in
order
to
attend
that
meeting
and
our
luncheon
tomorrow
up
in
columbus,
we'll
be
with
governor
dewine
and
lieutenant
governor
houstead.
A
So
it
should
be
a
really
interesting
meeting
and
then
we'll
meet
again
on
friday
up
in
columbus
to
go
through
the
oml
business
and
talk
about
all
things
that
are
impacting
our
communities,
both
large
and
small,
and
then
coming
up
in
in
january.
Actually,
no
in
march
and
I'll
talk
more
about
this,
as
we
get
time
draws
closer,
but
the
national
league
of
cities
will
be
having
the
cities
or
the
congressional
city
conference
in
washington
d.c
that's
coming
up
in
march.
A
I
will
be
attending
that
or
if
they
have
to
ship
gears
like
they
did
last
summer
and
not
hold
the
city
summit
in
salt
lake
city.
Instead,
they
transitioned
to
a
virtual
platform,
we'll
have
to
wait
and
see
what
happens
in
march
with
the
congressional
city
summit
or
congressional
city
conference,
which
is
in
washington
d.c,
as
I
indicated,
but
as
that
gets
closer,
I
will
certainly
make
sure
that
that
announcement
gets
out
and
I'm
always
looking
for
feedback
or
input,
more
importantly,
on
things
related
to
our
community
in
our
city.
A
So
more
to
follow
on
that,
but
looking
forward
to
my
meeting
tomorrow
with
the
governor,
lieutenant
governor
and
certainly
have
some
things
that
I
want
to
discuss
with
both
of
them
when
it
comes
to
issues
that
we're
experiencing
here
in
the
city
of
athens,
but
really
things
we're
likely
experiencing
across
the
state
that
need
to
be
brought
to
his
attention.
So
thanks
for
joining
me
today,
this
will
probably
be
the
last
weekly
update,
at
least
before
the
25th.
A
So
from
myself
and
my
family
connie
adelia
lana
from
all
of
us
to
all
of
you
and
I'll
speak
for
the
government
channel.
Since
scott
is
sitting
right
in
front
of
me
out
of
camera
angle
that
we
want
to
wish
you
a
safe
and
happy
holiday
season
moving
forward.
We
probably
will
have
one
show
scott
in
between
christmas
and
the
new
year's
we'll
see
I'd
like
to,
but
we'll
see
how
that
plays
out.
But
we
wish
you
a
safe
one,
so
take
care,
and
we
will
see
you
likely
before
the
close
of
2021.