City of Athens, Ohio Mayors Press Conference 2022, 21 Dec 2022

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Mayor's Press Conference - December 21, 2022

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Athens city council, we wish you a happy holidays, Happy.

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Merry Christmas from the Athens City auditor's office and.

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A Happy New Year.

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From the Arts Parks and Recreation Department, we would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a Happy New Year.

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More than you could ever know make.

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My salary times too.

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All I want from HR. Is you.

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Are you recording me what city of Athens human resources department, which is you and yours, a safe and happy holiday season? May your New Year start off on a high note, like Mariah Carey's voice.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the weekly update with the mayor and Kyle Johansen and uh what four more days four more days, three more days, four more days, we're counting down the clock to uh to find Christmas uh and then and then the new year, uh pretty funny watching those clips and, in particular the the one with the HR department and watching Ron Lucas, which uh is always a creative, creative individual. It pays to have a creative HR director. Kyle um we've got some real, real, crazy stuff coming at us. um You know this this.

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uh What are they calling for Vortex, this Vortex bomb or those weather bomb? That's coming at us. um Please give us an update, because I want to spend some time talking about that in particular, and what people in the city of Athens need to be doing um over the next three or four days, but is it? Are we dropping into this polar vortex for weeks and weeks on end or is it short-lived short-lived?.

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All right so today we got a Mexican Sun I have 45 tonight over class overcast guys so my chance of a rain shower well for day, one tomorrow's showers, High 42 and and after that, that's when the arctic front comes in well, six degrees rain, changing over to snow Friday it'll be a high of 11 degrees in the world too. Cloudy and wind Christmas Eve quality, High 15; well, seven Christmas Day, mostly sunny high of 20 Level Nine Monday.

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We got probably quite starting that warm-up Trend again High 28 12 for equality next Tuesday above freezing High, 33, 12, 19, probably cloudy in the next Wednesday. We are in the 40s and we should be approaching near the 60 degree March as we close out 2022 and begin 2023 yeah I'm. Looking over your.

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Shoulder and it looks like potentially on the 31st on New Year's Eve, it's almost 60. almost 60 degrees, all right um all things Bobcats, what's going on in the Bobcat.

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World so we got the first Arizona bowl next Friday night in Tucson Arizona, which is actually in the desert Southwest, not so far from where I'm from actually and basketball same time frame, 7 pm and then all the Mega Sports start home on the set of women's basketballs. It's the first matching game. 1 pm in the combo wrestling started Monday night this past weekend they won against Gardner by bulldogs 23-15, and they got four more home matches left to go west home match is February 1st sips weekend all right, sibs.

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Weekend it's coming.

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Is coming up quick and.

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Covet some states are starting their Mass requirements. It's not the flu, it's actually the flu, but mostly the flu, not the covet, but actually start wearing a mask outside for all hot, because these amazements actually are keeping your face. Warm actually avoid these mask ideas.

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Now, let's just get this cold air coming in which it took me a while it's like two or three days we'll get through this we'll go get through this all together, bundle up and try to stay inside as much as you can, because these frostbite times they're talking about on Friday a matter of 30 minutes of frosted by times for all of Ohio yeah.

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Yeah yeah I'm glad you brought that up. You know: I spent I spent eight and a half years of my life living in Grand, Forks, North Dakota, and you know it's it's amazing how quickly someone can get frostbite in exposed areas. uh The coldest uh ambient temperature non-wind chill, but the lowest temperature I remember experiencing was negative 44 degrees and then there was wind chill, which was 104 degrees below zero. But- uh and you know you step out in something like that, and it's it's within five years within five minutes.

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Yeah or less than so this is this is uh pretty significant. You know really stressing you know being careful and not having Exposed Skin when you're out and about you know, especially when it's that cold outside Kyle, so I'm glad you, you brought that up for people I also want to bring up um as I typically do and it's you know it's one of those repetition things is.

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You know you can be following significant weather issues as well as other issues you know by using the nixel app. You know this is so simple to do. I get most recently. I was getting Amber Alerts, you know from an Amber uh event up in the Columbus area, um and uh so I mean it's pretty far-reaching, but if there was an amber alert for an incident that occurred here in Athens and Athens County again you'd get that information, severe weather criminal activities, missing persons, Etc and there's how you can do.

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It is just signing up by texting. Four five: seven, zero one to eight, eight, eight, seven, seven and uh you can also select what you want notifications on. You know you may only want it for weather events or you may only want it, for you know criminal activities, um but uh you know do it and then Ryan? If you would, let's flip the narrative a little bit and talk about the City Source app? This is the other one. So you know going into this extremely cold period.

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You know we could see water line breakage. We could see areas where maybe um the snow plows, even though they do a fantastic, fantastic job. uh There may be something that that is unnoticed and we can certainly make sure our crews Circle back around and and take care of it. But you know you can easily download the Athens Ohio City Source app at Google Play or the Apple uh App Store. So do this especially coming into this upcoming cold spell, albeit short-lived. It that's irrelevant when we have significant weather.

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I also want to mention that if we do experience in the city of Athens any areas neighborhoods that have power outages, the uh we've done this in the past, and we can certainly do it again is that we can open up the Athens Community Center as a warming station to where people who truly need to get out of their uh unheated house, because they may have lost power or whatever. If we have power loss here in the city of Athens that we are prepared to open that back up.

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The other thing is our street Crews I was just talking with director uh service safety, director Andy Stone, about our our crews, prepped and ready, and yes is the answer to all that. This would be our first major snow event of the Season. We've got a great stockpile of salt down at the Service garage, so those guys are ready and eager to get out and make sure that our roads are clear.

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You also might want to if you do have to travel when, in this really really cold weather, probably a good idea to start your vehicle. If it's out been outside start it and let it idle for a little bit as opposed to getting in starting it up getting in and start driving right away. You know often not the best thing in the world for your vehicle with with oil and other fluids that are like tar until your engine warms up but keep those kinds of things in mind.

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You know I I certainly do but I think a lot of it's because of my life experience of living in a part of the nation where everyone had a block heater on their engine to keep it warm, and here in Ohio we don't Community Center hours during the holiday I've mentioned this before this Friday they will be open from 6A to 6p and then closed after 6 pm and the 24th through Monday the 26th.

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The community center um will be closed on Saturday through Monday and then on Tuesday. They will be reopened again with their regular hours. So keep that in mind, if you're planning to work out or wanting to do something in the community center that on the 24th through the 26th, it will not be open.

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Christmas tree pickup, this is Timely. The Christmas tree pickup will start on the 27th of December. So if you're interested in having your tree picked up because you've, you know taken down the decorations, you know you need to put it out to the curb, but you also need to call the city garage at.

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592-3343-592-3343 and schedule a time for them to come by and pick up the tree. It is free of charge, but you do need to make that call to where they can come out and get it. You can't just drag it out to your curb and hope that the city Service uh the same engineering and Public Works will just come by and pick it up because they won't. They won't know it's there. Unless you call trash delays, there will be a trash delay next week and there will be a trash delay the week after that.

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So keep that in mind the city building. We will be closed. This Friday as well the 20 third and will be closed on the 26th on Monday. So two days to keep that in mind, utility billing office will be closed. My office will be closed New Year's day again.

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uh The the second of January city building will be closed and, as I mentioned, trash delay will be that week as well to where everything backs up a day. Some upcoming meetings that we have we've got the uh um Orton don't have Commission on disabilities, which was scheduled for the 21st.

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Today is canceled, so there is no Commission on disabilities meeting here um and you know I think that's it for everything that we've got again. We had kind of a short list other than to wish all of you a very safe and fruitful, relaxing, hopefully Christmas as well as New Year's, a happy New, Year right, Kyle, happy, New, Year, happy, New, Year, everybody uh and I.

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Think next year is going to be a great year and it's going to be a good year, yeah all right and happy New, Year and uh happy holidays to you too Kyle thanks yeah. All right thanks for watching and please oh I, should remind we are not going to have a weekly update with the mayor and Kyle Johansen next week. So you won't see us until what would that be the.

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Of January 4th of January in the new year so um please tune in on the fourth and hear about all the updates. At that point in time,.