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From YouTube: Mayor's Press Conference - August 17, 2022
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Mayor's Press Conference - August 17, 2022
A
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
once
again
it's
the
weekly
update
with
kyle
johansen
and
the
mayor.
You
know
I
I
was
just
out
on
the
street
talking
with
somebody,
and
it
was
like
you
know
this
week
has
been
felt
like
fall,
an
early
fall,
but
it
felt
really
nice
outside.
I
was
even
in
someone's
office
and
they
had
their
heater
going
on
because
it
was
the
things
are
changing
but
kyle.
A
B
B
B
and
chronovirus.
As
of
cases
counts,
cities
has
dropped
our
county
from
high
to
medium
from
orange
to
yellow,
which
is
actually
good.
Now,
because
we
are
seeing
our
other
cases
coming
down
like
back
in
late
july,
we
have
about
563
acid
cover
case,
and
last
week
we
had
roughly
about
500
active
cover
cases,
we're
starting
trend
back
more
down.
I
think,
because
the
part
of
it
that
we
are
passed
a
peek
at
the
ba
five
sub
omega
crime
variants,
which
is
actually
some
good
news
and.
B
Chronovirus
vaccines
are
still
actually
still
out
there.
They're
saying
by
september.
1
there'll
still
be
boosters
ready
to
go
for
like
from
five
year
olds
to
45
year
olds,
beginning
september
1,
which
is
actually
going
to
help
us
get
more
antibodies,
ready
to
go
and
should
be
good
news
for
these
potential
ourselves
from
the
winter
church.
We
still
could
have.
B
We
don't
know
when
it's
going
to
arrive
yet,
but
we're
slowly
starting
to
see,
but
we're
still
hoteling,
which
is
kind
of
good
and
like
normal
vax,
is
still
out
here
just
right
now,
four
chronometers
back
saying:
there's
j
and
j,
pfizer,
moderna
and
another
vac.
So
there's
four
club
vaccines
now
dude,
that's
three,
but
now
there's
now
four
of
them
so
which
is
how
shoot
now
the
fourth
chromosome
actually
know.
B
The
fact
is
now
I'm
booster
sharp,
which
is
actually
goodness,
and
I
have
four
chromospheres
for
boosters
now
in
monkey
parks,
more
universities
right
now.
Even
ohio
diversity
is
encouraging
students
to
get
the
muggy
parks
vaccine
because
they're
already
seeing
well.
There
are
now
monkey
box
cases
spotted
near
the
house.
The
university
area
there's
been
some
in
our
area,
they're
saying
that
monkey
park
vaccines,
you
probably
should
try
to
get
for
students
before
they
start
to
go
to
class
on
monday,
then
protect
yourselves
from
these
monkey
pockets.
B
B
The
28th
in
the
first
september
is
the
first
football
game
in
the
fourth:
is
the
trend
gold
soccer
game
chesterfield
at
one
end
of
the
ninth
and
10th
of
september,
it's
the
bobcat
invitational
volleyball
and
in
the
10th
of
september
the
ou
football
team
goes
to
penn.
State
university
of
wishes
for
state
college
is
which
is
where
I
went
for
whatever
camp
in
2015,
which
is
where
accuweather's
basically
filmed
at,
and
I
went
there
in
2015
and
not
a
while.
B
Now
in
the
pickup
hurricane
season,
there's
not
one
there's
two
peaks,
there's
one
on
the
10th
september
and
the
other
one
since
in
the
middle
part
of
october,
I
think
october
25th,
it's
the
second
peak
which
is
when
you
get
these
frontal
boundaries
stall
over
the
gulf
mexican.
You
get
the
central
american
dry,
which
creates
tropical
cyclones
on
either
side
of
the
basins.
Even
when
I
go
to
the
pacific
side,
so
we
are
starting
to
see
that
chocolatito,
it's
almost
that
time
of
the
year.
This
is
how
we
get
our
major
hurricanes.
B
These
big
tropical
wastes
travel
all
across
from
africa,
come
to
the
atlantic
and
fuel
on
this
warm
sea
surface
waters,
even
the
gulf
of
mexico
temperatures
right
now
near
houston,
I
think,
are
like
87
degrees
right
now,
which
is
kind
of
like
bath
water.
So
try
not
to
be
out
in
the
bathwater
right
now
near
houston's,
87
degrees,
fahrenheit,
water
temperatures
in
the
gulf
of
mexico.
Already
in
texas,
there.
A
You
have
it
all
right.
Thank
you,
kyle.
You
know.
The
other
thing
is,
and
I've
mentioned
this
before
the
city
of
athens
receives
data
on
the
omicron
variant
and
covet
19
in
general,
through
our
viral
load
sampling,
that
is,
the
assays
are
conducted
by
karen,
dr
karen
koshkana
at
ohio
university
and
we've
been
watching
those
closely
as
well.
A
They
started
doing
that
recently
as
the
residence
halls
are
starting
to,
or
will
begin
to
fill
up
with,
students
again
and
again.
Those
those
good
news
is
that
those
viral
load
sample
sampling
results
are
showing
a
downward
trend
in
the
viral
load,
which
gives
us
a
four
to
seven
day
advanced
notice
as
to
what
things
are
going
to
look
like
with
with
cases
as
they
continually
evolve.
A
A
I
believe
it
is
well
over
4
000
new
freshmen
coming
in
to
ou
this
year,
which
is
a
good
problem
to
have
so
they're
going
to
be
kind
of
diversifying
where
second
year
students
are
going
to
be
allowed
to
live
so
you're
going
to
see
a
lot
of
activity
I'll
just
leave
it
at
that.
Some
of
the
other
things
that
are
worth
noting
right
off
the
the
right
of
the
gate
with
street
closures.
This
is
important.
A
We
identified
a
an
issue
and
replacing
a
water
line
valve
so
with
that
water
line
valve
we're
going
to
be
putting
going
under
a
boil
order
issued
after
that
work
is
completed
that
work
started
today
at
9
00
a.m,
and
hopefully
it's
going
to
be
completed,
but
again,
that
is
west
washington
street
between
south,
lancaster
and
smith
street.
So
keep
your
eyes
open
for
that
the
work
and
then
just
note
that
there
will
be
a
boil
order
that
goes
into
place
after
the
fact.
A
A
I
believe
here
in
council
chambers
scott,
if
you
could
fact
check
that
it
is
called
council
chambers,
it's
going
to
be
on
august
24th
between
6
and
7
pm
here
in
council
chambers,
and
it's
going
to
be
covering
everything
from
sunshine
law
to
to
rural
roberts
rules.
Things
of
that
nature.
So
we'll
have
a
number
of
board
and
commission
members
coming
to
that.
A
Keep
that
in
mind
another
thing
that
we're
working
on
speaking
of
boards
and
commissions
is
we're
working
on
having
a
a
second
kind
of
a
boards
and
commissions
appreciation
evening.
We
did
this
back
in
2019
at
the
community
center
and
as
we
are
finding
our
way
out
of
covid
we're
planning
to
have
another
one,
we're
hoping
to
have
it
sometime
in
november,
but
stay
tuned
on
that
utility
abilities.
A
A
A
The
planning
commission
will
be
meeting
here
in
council
chambers
tomorrow
at
12
p.m,
and
I
know
that
we
have
several
communications
and
cases
coming
up
and,
as
usual
city
council
is
going
to
be
meeting
august
22nd
here
in
council
chambers-
and
I
don't
remember
scott,
I'm
assuming
that
that's
going
to
be
committees
and
then
august.
I
may
also
have
a
fifth
monday,
so.
B
A
A
Correct
not
meeting
fifth
mondays:
we
typically
don't
unless
there's
some
emergency
meeting
that
we
have
to
have
and
pulling
city
council
in.
Another
thing
I
want
to
share
with
everybody
is
that
the
director
of
arts
parks
and
recreation,
catherine
ann
jordan,
just
sent
me
an
update
for
the
pool
hours
as
we're
approaching
a
couple
weeks
out
from
the
end
of
our
2022
swimming
pool
season.
A
A
A
A
City
staff
pool
staff-
you
know
go
back
to
their
regular
jobs
as
well.
So
keep
that
in
mind
that
the
there's
a
an
amendment
to
the
pool
hours.
The
other
thing
I
want
to
share
real
quick
before
we
go
into
our
closeout
is
kyle.
Johansen
has
been
here
on
the
dice
with
me
for
the
weekly
updates,
with
the
mayor
and
kyle
johansen
for
three
years
three
year
anniversary
this
week
or
thereabouts
so
kyle.
It
has
been
a
great
three
years
and
I'm
looking
forward
to
the
next
three
years
or
longer.
B
A
So
it's
a
it's
kind
of
a
homework
day,
so
thank
you.
Kyle
you're
welcome
all
right
and
I
will
say
farewell
until
our
next
weekly
update
with
the
mayor,
but
I
know
scott
and
ryan
have
something
special.
They
want
to
share
with
arts
parks
and
recreation.
So,
thanks
for
watching-
and
please
check
us
out
again
for
the
next
installment
of
the
weekly
update
with
the
kyle
with
the
kyle,
the
kyle
and
mayer
show
we'll
just
change
the
name
at
some
point
in
time
with
the
weekly
update
with
kyle
johansen
and
the
mayor.
C
At
the
east
state
street
park
campus,
we
have
the
community
center
skate
park,
outdoor
basketball
courts,
a
roller
hockey
rink
tennis
courts.
The
athens
city
pool
the
dog
park
and
we
also
have
several
community
gardens
that
you
can
check
out
we're
also
located
right
on
the
bike
path.
So
you
can
access
the
bike
path
or
the
city
from
either
either
way,
and
we
this
will
also
be
the
site
of
in
the
future
two
new
tennis
courts
and
outdoor
pickleball
courts.
C
At
sales
park
we
have
miles
of
hiking
trails
and
biking
trails
that
connect
to
stroud's
run
state
park.
We
also
have
a
pond
that
you
can
fish
in
or
you
can
lounge
by.
We
have
a
storybook
trail
that
is
monitored
and
the
story
is
changed
out
by
athens
public
library,
so
that
was
a
collaboration
between
arts
parks
and
recreation,
athens,
public
library,
and
we
also
on
our
entrance
ramp
into
the
park.
We
have
a
welcome
blast
off,
kids,
walk
that
was
painted
by
the
girl
scout
trooper.
C
At
highland
park,
we
have
a
playground,
a
shelter
house,
a
basketball
court
and
green
space
at
west
state
street
park.
We
have
several
ball
fields,
we're
also
using
this
space
for
our
soccer
programming.
So
we
now
have
some
soccer
fields
in
west
state
street
park.
We
have
the
west
side
community
gardens.
C
C
C
We
also
have
a
humanities
in
the
park
story,
walk
that
was
installed
recently
at
the
richland
avenue
site
and
then
at
the
other
south
side
location,
which
is
just
down
dairy
lane
a
little
bit.
We
have
another
shelter
house,
we
have
the
put
people
first,
there's
a
ball
field,
an
outdoor
basketball
court
and
an
outdoor
volleyball
court.