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

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Mayor's Press Conference - November 10, 2021

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Happy wednesday afternoon and welcome to the weekly update with the mayor and kyle johansen, you know it feels like kyle. We have been just see-sawing back and forth between warm and cold and warm and cold. So it looks like we fill us in. There might even be a sprinkle of snow in the forecast, but tell us what we have in store for the next seven days.

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So today, look for mostly sunny skies high of 67. tonight, mostly cloudy low 44.

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tomorrow afternoon, rain high of 71 rain early in the evening low 40. monday, mostly sunny high 58 well for a form of clear skies. Saturday, mostly cloudy high 44. well friday, one followed by cloudy skies during the night sunday, as this alberta clear, will break in afternoon showers and then trenching over the snow sunday night, which could get up to one inch of snow to ground by monday morning and that's out of here by the afternoon on monday of a high of 43 in the low of 25 and clearing skies.

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Then two, so they will start to be back on this upward trend highs around 50 degrees on tuesday, low 46, probably cloudy, and next ones will be back in the 60s again high of 61, low 38 and partly cloudy skies and covered cases in ohio. We are seeing cases starting to come a little bit in the last couple of days, but we're still trying to come down.

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That's now, 5-11 olds can get a vaccine, and now boosters can happen next week for 15 years and older and same thing for maldonado will be the week after 18 years and older for boosters. In that flex, the football team won in eastern michigan last night from 36 34 to 26.

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basketball won their exhibition game by 26 points, 92 the 66, and they won last night against beaumont 92-80, and we got two more volatile games home this week friday. The first 100 fans can get a point, ohio t-shirt at 7 p.m and saturday is the senior day 2 p.m, and we got one more football game at home, tuesday night to be announced. So we got basketball monday night, 7 p.m, and we got basketball approaching home next month saturday at 1pm. You know we got thanks.

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Give me more games coming on thanksgiving wake ahead of us right. So.

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Kyle football is playing who for the torino.

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That'll be a good one uh kind of give some local updates when it comes to the coven 19 cases now granted. This was yesterday's numbers, but, as you can see, you know, 48.88 vaccinations started uh 45.91 for people who have completed new cases yesterday, just four, they say jest four cases which is great to see. Hopefully, we continue to trend in that direction, because then, what you'll see is you'll start to see the active cases really start to continue their decline and uh the unfortunately 92 deaths here in the county, athens county.

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The other thing, thank you, ryan. uh Is the vaccination clinic update that kyle was just talking about you know so uh friday. The 19th uh that is a week from this friday herald um heritage hall at 191, west union street will be offering the vaccine pfizer vaccine for ages 5 and up, and then, if you were 18 or under so that 5 to 18 year old group must be have a parent or guardian present. When you get your vaccination, um you know this.

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Is it's wonderful that now kids in that age group kyle, the 15 of the.

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Five to 11 year olds, yeah.

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It's it's music to our ears, our ears, yes good to know. I do know that there is a shot clinic this friday, also at heritage hall. That will be for individuals of that age group. I know that because I don't think my daughters have ever been excited to get a vaccine, but they're excited to get this one. So they're gonna start their vaccination series. This friday, stimpson avenue, interchange, I just drove down stimson, and these markings are all pretty much completed in that area.

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They continue to put up lamp, poles and some other infrastructure in that area. They've got a little more concrete work that needs to be completed, but trucco is still chugging along and working on that project. Lane shift and flagging is expected on stimson avenue area.

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It's been underway for a while will continue but started on the 8th, and they will continue working on that project and it's really shaping up nicely. Aep has some activity at the aep clark transformer station, there's the substation down by the code office and west elementary or east elementary. I think it's west elementary, because east is now active, and this is located at 26. Current drive experienced a fluid leak from one of their transformers, as required by epa. The company is removing that using a vacuum truck and high pressure air.

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The material is collected and stored in these blue containers that you can see down there on site and then once those blue containers fill with the debris that they are vacuuming up, then they will be properly disposed of. If anybody has any questions about this activity, that's taking place down on curran drive. You can certainly reach out to aep ohio at.

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1-800-672-2231 again, 1-800-672-2231.

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They will hopefully be able to answer your questions. Arts west has some after school fall art classes going on session. Three will be starting pretty soon, which is always wonderful. They are hosting the after school art classes for the 2021-2022 school year. This is uh off being offered to middle schoolers for the first time this year. Their instructors are exceptional artists and educators, and it's a wonderful opportunity for your kids to express themselves so reach out to emily beveridge.

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I'm sure is the right way to go about this and schedule something the registration costs equal out to about ten dollars per class for the elementary school students and fifteen dollars per class for middle school individuals, and they last between four and six weeks for the classes themselves.

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So, if you're interested in having your kids engage in that activity, I would encourage you, like, I said, to reach out at emily beveridge at arts west or I'm sure you can probably contact someone at the community center and get more information on that in the community. Center is 592-3325.

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uh Let's see, we've got the hrc holiday route schedule. We talked about this before just as a reminder that hrc will not be running on thursday, so everything will be delay everything anyone who's trash is picked up tomorrow. It will be picked up on friday.

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Same will hold true for november 25th for thanksgiving uh so for thanksgiving day. The hrc will not be rolling, so just roll your trash out on the friday and it will be collected.

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They will be closed december 24th and december 31st.

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Be then this is for the christmas day and then new year's day collection there's no delay, but they will not be picking up on friday, the 24th or the 31st, and I know that ryan has the leaf schedule again, I'm not going to get into any details, but it's just good to remind people. Our leafer truck is out there.

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Rolling the streets sucking up leaves so take advantage of this free service that the city offers to get the leaves out of your yard, but you have to get them out of your yard and to the curb and we will remove them for you, some upcoming meetings.

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There will be one right here in council chambers, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, scott and getting the big head nod from scott today at 3 30 will be the vending appeals board, we'll be meeting and have a case uh to discuss the refusal of a vending permit, so make note of that. That will be aired, live on the tgc as well as city social media and on the city's website. So you can observe that amac, the athens municipal arts commission is also meeting today.

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The meeting at 5 30 that will be at arts west at 132 west state street, again open to the public. But if you're interested in hearing what amac is up to, which is a lot, I was just driving around and noticed at least four, if not five new traffic control box wraps that are up and always attractive and fun. To look at. I noticed two out on east state street one was near the community center and one is our newest traffic control box, which is out near menards, a rather large traffic control box.

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That has a wrap. Also, I've seen a couple in the uptown area boxes that hadn't been wrapped yet so, hopefully, when you're out and about you will see them, and hopefully you will also enjoy them. It's always fun. Seeing the new art going up on our traffic control boxes, athens city council is going to be meeting next monday evening, as usual: 7 p.m. Here in council chambers on november 15th.

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Finally, the last thing uh the last couple things kyle brought this up and I noticed it as well and what was unusual about uptown, or maybe it's usual, but briefs are coming up before things.

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Holiday reads: the uh holiday decorations are starting to go up on court street, so I noticed that too kyle. I noticed that on west union, as I was driving to a meeting- and it was fun seeing.

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And someone in richmond had some houses have them up to as well. You're.

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More of the grinch, I saw that one too, the grinch the grinch is now residing on richland avenue um across from john's taco. John's taco john's is getting a face left as well. It's looking rather snappy.

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uh The seventh annual athena award ceremony took place last week. I believe it was, and it was a wonderful event put on by the athens commission on disabilities and they also have a brand new award. This year we had seven or six awards that were produced uh six years ago and uh when the sixth one was given to last year's recipient, uh the the the athens commission on disabilities decided that they were going to find have a call for artists. They did, and uh one was selected and created this beautiful ceramic award.

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That was given this year to barbara conover for all the work that barbara has done uh advocating for individuals living with disabilities. uh It was a wonderful event very deserving for barbara and again to be the first recipient of this. Beautiful piece of art is really really special.

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That's all I have for today again, as usual, a big thank you to scott thompson and ryan schwarzkopf for all the work that they do with the government channel and making sure that you are being provided the content uh that you need to be kept abreast everything that's going on here in the city of athens and doing the the best that we can to get vitally important information out to you in as timely a manner as possible with things such as boil orders or other incidents that occur around the city, but then also there's the good news that the government channel is also providing to use content.

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So kyle. Thank you for joining me as usual. It's always a pleasure and hopefully you'll be able to join us next week for the next weekly update with the mayor and kyle johansen. Thank you.