City of Athens, Ohio Mayors Press Conference 2021, 8 Sep 2021

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From YouTube: Mayor's Weekly Update - September 8, 2021

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Mayor's Weekly Update - September 8, 2021

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Good afternoon and welcome once again to the weekly update with the mayor, we're kind of back to the weekly update, at least for the time being. uh As you can see, I have uh k kn 95 face covering on uh and kyle is really enjoying the outdoors so more to come on. Why I'm wearing a face covering but kyle, give us an update on all things, weather, covid and in ou athletics,.

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So today there's a cloudy skies: a high of 73 below 54.

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tomorrow, partly cloudy high 73 12 51 friday 71 for the high in the low 50 saturday, high of 79, well 52 sunday, sunny, 584, low 61 monday, probably cloudy 586 lost 61., tuesday high of 84 low 63, sunny the next wednesday, probably crowded 81 and a low of 61., and today, in the last 24 hours, there's been now six thousand eight hundred and twenty three new clinton virus case in the state of ohio in the last 24 hours brings a total of 1.2 million 799 000 cases in 257 additional hospitalizations in all your athletics soccer is back home tomorrow against northern kentucky, and then we are in the soccer football.

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It's home on saturday against duquesne, which is outside of pittsburgh. 2 p.m. Penis a.m. Parents weekend and then we got soccer back home again on the 23rd field. Hockey's back home on the 24th friday all starts their home season on the 24th, the 25th, and then they got parents weekend coming up now and we got homecoming, which is about four weeks away.

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Very good, thank you, kyle! It's it's great, seeing you outdoors getting some fresh air and exercising good for you.

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uh You know I I say this, I think, during every update and press conference, and that is there's a simple solution to the pandemic that we're under. It is two part one where a face covering when you're entering into any business or facility that is open to the public, because it's protecting yourself, it's protecting others. The other thing is people. Wake up and get the vaccine get vaccinated.

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um Unfortunately covet 19 is, is hit home personally to where uh one of my children, who is not of age to be able to get the vaccine uh tested positive for covet 19..

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You know it's affecting our youth uh in young kids, more so than the original covet 19 variant. But it's it's! uh You know this. The solution to this is get the vaccine. It's safe! It's effective! It's easy! It's free and we're a face covering you know which it's a piece of cloth over your face to protect each other, so we just need everyone to get with the program and do what is the right thing to do?

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uh Weekly updates, uh the engineering and public works. We've got a major traffic pattern change over on smith street, which is in between bayern and west union street. It will be southbound directional only in that area, as opposed to both north and south. North traffic on smith will be closed between west union and bayern street for demolition of an adjacent building. So just keep that in mind. If you live on, foster foster will be one-way. Traffic maintained uh towards smith street south. So keep that in mind.

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If you're going down foster street uh you'll have to it will remain open, but you're only going to be able to turn south on to smith street. If that's the direction to which you're heading other news from around the city. um Again, we have the face covering ordinance, that's in place.

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You know we are requiring people wear face covering when you're entering into a business that is open to the public again it's to protect each other. So this is consistent with ohio, university's policy, as well as the athens city school district policy. This is for vaccinated and unvaccinated people in following the center for disease control's guidelines.

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uh Some emergency notifications is always good to know, especially when we seem to be cycling in and out of of some significant rain events of late um use. Mixel, n-I-x-l-e, mixel nixle is a national service.

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uh Anyone can sign up for it and it will give you updates on things uh based upon proximity to your zip code or your area.

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Rather, your area code keeps you up to date with all kinds of relevant information, safety, wise local, local public safety, schools, severe weather criminal activities, missing persons, etc so check it out. The other thing that I often mention and worth noting is the athens ohio city source app. You know again it's a great app that you can use to identify potholes damaged street signs, traffic lights out street lights out uh litter on the streets.

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If you see water bubbling up out of the city street, that shouldn't be bubbling up out of the street, it's good to use for that as well, and it uses your gps or gps locator to identify where that site is, and it gets it straight to the proper department so easy to find. You can go to apple play or the app store rather or google play google play, store or apple app store and just put in athens, ohio city source app, and it will be at your fingertips for reporting things.

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The athens city county health department pushed out an announcement earlier, and it was basically that hospitals across the state of ohio are becoming uh or continuing to see more and more increases in the covet. 19 cases and patients coming in ohio hospitals are feeling the strain of the increase in patients along with burnout and staff shortages.

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So uh you know we can, as I mentioned a minute ago, we can all do our part to support hospitals and their staffs by choosing to get vaccinated. uh Just get vaccinated.

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uh Some upcoming meetings, the athens municipal arts commission, is going to be meeting today at 5 30 pm it'll be in the athens community center activity room a if you choose to attend in person. Please make sure you've got a face covering because it will be required to go into that meeting.

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The shade tree commission is meeting tomorrow september, 9th uh and they'll be meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. That'll be in athens city, council chambers, on the third floor of the city. Building the preservation board. Regular meeting will be monday september 13th that will be 5 30 to 6 30 pm and, as is usual at the city, council, will be meeting the 13th as well at 7, 00 p.m, same place same time, the same location same, you know what it'll be at 7 00 pm.

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uh So hopefully you can join in uh again athenians stay, safe, be smart, get the vaccine wear face coverings, do the right thing uh and thanks for tuning in hopefully you'll join me in next week for the next weekly update with the mayor. Thank you. Kyle take care. You too.