City of Athens, Ohio Mayors Press Conference 2021, 19 May 2021

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From YouTube: Mayor's Weekly Update May 19, 2021

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Mayor's Weekly Update May 19, 2021

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Good afternoon and welcome once again to the weekly update with the mayor and kyle johansen kyle, it's, uh it looks really nice where you're at. Although I know that's your your background, but it is nice outside here in athens. What do we have in store for us today and in seven days ahead? Kyle.

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So today, look for probably cloudy skies high of 85. tonight's, probably cloudy low of 56.

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tomorrow, probably cloudy 586., tomorrow, night's probably cloudy low of 57. friday, probably cloudy hot 589 friday night, mostly cloudy well 60 saturday, mostly cloudy hot of 87 fahrenheit highly cloudy low 62 sunday, mostly sunny hot high of 90.

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sunday night, partly cloudy low 64., monday, scattered storms. I have 83 monday night, probably cloudy low 63 to say probably cloudy hot high of 91.

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tuesday night, probably cloudy well 64. and next wednesday, scattered storms, 586 and low of 60 with scattered storms. Chronovirus cases in ohio today is the fifth day straight. The case has been under 1 000 since last friday: zero, no active cases, yes in athens, county 59 deaths, nationwide, there's now, 33 million cases, 587 000 deaths and globally, 200 million cases, 2.1 million deaths and then cdc announced that if we vaccinate people can attend all things 100 capacity, it could be inside church services.

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Outdoor events like concerts, sporting events or venues and max mandate will be lifting all health waters, starting on june, 2nd at 12 1 am in ou sports softball field. Hockey, mosque on baseball wrap up their season at the 30th of this month.

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Food hockey has a scrimmage on june 3rd food hockey, soccer back up in person in august, 100 capacity and field hockey will be back in person work with some capacity and flyback. Some people do not no longer have to wear to match no longer anymore.

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That is the big news of the week. I mean when I heard last thursday about the governor planning to walk back most of the orders or all of them. uh You know I've been receiving lots of phone calls from citizens and from businesses as to what the city is going to be doing, uh and I would encourage people to attend or watch. uh I should say, watch city council this monday night, as we do take up the the issue of face coverings here in the city of athens uh kyle. Thank you. As usual.

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uh You know it's always great to see, and I know that you track it all the time, but it's always great to see zero new cases in athens county. I saw that for yesterday. I think we had another day. Last week we had a few cases over the weekend, but it's certainly uh encouraging seeing that, but but we're still living under a global pandemic.

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So we strongly encourage people to continue to be safe, continue to use a mask, especially if you're not vaccinated when you're out and about you know, going into businesses open to the public and whatnot so kyle. Thank you. As usual, very much for updating us on everything related to the weather, covered 19 and sports in the city of athens.

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Yeah next week see you next week same time same place. uh Epw engineering and public works uh they're doing smoke testing uh a smoke test uh on south court street. This is something that they often do to look for.

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Look at the integrity of our storm sewer system or the sewer system itself, so they're performing that up on court street today start at 9am. They did have some closures in the left-hand lane of south court street between west union and washington, so keep an eye out for that.

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That may have wrapped up, but just know that if you see smoke coming up out of the street anywhere that uh it is smoke testing, the other thing is timson avenue project again, uh certainly apologize for the inconveniences that the seven million dollar overhaul of uh stimson avenue has had what it's caused, but uh the project.

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As I know, it is still on track to have the north side lane completed in july and then migrating to the south side lane um and then the whole project, again, hopefully being wrapped up by the end of october.

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uh Arts parks and recreation has several things going on: registration for youth, t-ball, coach pitch and smart start baseball, 35 dollars per child, so again encouraging people to sign up your kids. For that you can call arts parks and rec at five and out more about it. uh The t-ball is ages. Five and six coach pitch is seven through nine uh and I'm not 100 sure as uh what the age range is for smart start baseball, but there you have it for uh t-ball and coach pitch.

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The oh yeah I do have information on the smart start. Baseball is kids ages, three to five um with a parent being there. So there you have it smart start, baseball, t-ball and coach pitch again check it out. uh You can call the community center, as I mentioned at 592-3325, and get more information on that.

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The uh there's registration is going on now for swim lessons. I think we have the flyer to show again there. It is the you can see the sessions and the times as well as the pricing for lessons forty dollars per child per session.

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Again, you see the session time frames for june july and even into august uh aqua, tots 35 dollars per child adaptive, aquatics 35 dollars and junior lifeguarding again uh take advantage of that with the lifeguard program uh is 60 dollars per child per session.

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All right uh I and we'd mentioned. I mentioned the last time the new arts parks and recreation logo. There you have it uh the sharp and fully engaged logo with a bicycle and a artist brush. The uh looks like the hocking river in the hills and the sun, so nice looking logo.

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The couple other things going on june 1st down at the water treatment plant actually down at the service garage there will be a ribbon cutting it's a ribbon cutting for the new micro grid system. It's a battery system that feeds off of the solar energy produced by the solar array at the water treatment plant it feeds into the batteries.

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The batteries then will uh partially power the water treatment plant during the evening when the sun is not out so pretty cool that we were selected as one of three sites in the state of ohio to have a pilot microgrid system that was put forward or brought forward by aep.

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Another thing that I'd like to mention and recognize- I may have mentioned this- the last press conference and that is that council, member or former council member beth clodfelter uh has stepped down from city council to take a position with senator sherrod brown's office.

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So beth will be missed. She was a wonderful city, council, member and always actively engaged with the population. So the best to you in your new endeavor former council member beth, claude felder, upcoming meetings here in the city, we've got the commission on disabilities this evening. That will be at 5 00 pm recreation advisory board will be tomorrow evening.

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Also at 5, 00 pm and athens city council will be may 24th. So next monday same time as usual, 7 pm and.