City of Bloomington, Indiana City Council, 22 Apr 2020

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Good evening, as I want we're, calling the city council special session meeting.

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Order, wednesday april 22nd 2020, obviously a little after 6:30 p.m.

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Madam clerk, will you call the roll yes councilmember alley, yeah gamble.

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Laurie rosenberger here, thank you, sims, yes, piedmont, smith, yeah, yeah smith,.

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Here in sandburg yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Just.

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A different today, a little bit of housekeeping the first thing, I'd like to.

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Do before we do a gender summation is make this announcement as the presiding.

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Officer is performing this duty under moving to municipal code 2-0, for I'm.

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Sorry 2.0 4.27 0 to approve meeting agendas. The council president and me and.

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His absence as council, their vice president, has determined that the items.

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On tonight's agenda are essential matters critical to the operation of.

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City government now, as far as other reminders for the public members of the.

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Public on this virtual meeting, you will have both audio and video disabled until.

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Public comment, which will proceed as follows: members of the public wishing to.

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Speak during public comment should use either the raise hand feature. I believe.

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It's at the bottom of the screen or should indicate their desire to comment.

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Using the chat function when a member of the public is called upon to speak.

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Council staff will enable audio and video during that individuals comment.

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Then, to say: well both when the comment is over, the presiding officer will chair. The meeting will call on people to speak.

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Just like at normal meetings, when someone wishes to speak.

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You should physically raise your hand. These are my colleagues and city staff.

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Raise your hand and wait for the chair to acknowledge you. Thank you all now.

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Today's agenda summation, we will have reports from councilmembers number two.

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From the mayor and city offices number three from council committees, then we.

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Will have I'm sorry, am I forgetting the boards and commissions appointments? Yes,.

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Okay and we'll also have appointments to.

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Boards and commissions are legislated for second reading and resolutions will.

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Be ordinance 20, oh nine, which is to amend title tool to bloomington.

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Municipal code entitled administration and personnel to grant authority to act.

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In accordance with declared disaster emergencies regarding amending 2.2 to.

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Point all three: oh in title, employee policies and complying with the state of.

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Indiana's declaration of disaster emergency under ic everly, that's indiana,.

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Code, 10 14 3 12. The committee of the whole recommendation for this.

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Ordinance was do pass 9, 0 0. There are no legislations for first reading. This.

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Evening then, we'll have a discussion on council schedule and after which will be.

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Prepared to adjourn so council comments, councilmember.

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Sandberg no report council members, gambler e.

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I'm sorry she's moving, no report. No thank you. Thank you. You're fine.

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Councilmember rallo I'll make a quick report just to say: I've been reflecting.

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Because this is earth day and, of course, we're still in the early stages of this.

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Pandemic and I think if there's one thing that we could learn from this.

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Pandemic is that one of the intrinsic nature of the pandemic is its.

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Exponential growth and I think more and more people who were unfamiliar with the.

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Idea of exponential growth are learning about it and learning how quickly that.

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Growth can overtake you, and so you see a case here in a case there and then a.

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Cluster and then you're in a boom stage, where you're headed up that hockey-stick.

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Of exponential growth and this being earth day, I think there's a point to tie.

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In and that is that this, the the root of our unsustainable way of living, that is.

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Expecting infinite growth on a finite planet is has reached exponential.

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Proportions- and it's been there for some time and it said really at the root of our problems.

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Climate change species extinction, the ocean crisis, and all of that is really.

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An impact a manifestation of the impact of this idea that we can grow forever on.

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A on a sphere which is finite by definition, and so there might be an.

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Opportunity for people to recognize that, and I think, there's also going to be an.

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Opportunity for people to question the basis by which we have an economy that.

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Is so fragile that an interruption that's only taken a few weeks requires.

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Tens of trillions of dollars inputs just to keep the economy growing.

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Because we have such a huge over leveraged debt load and that's not a way.

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To live on a finite planet, it's inevitable that we would reach limits.

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And I think that this bubble that we've been living in has found a pen and that.

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Pen has been the virus, so if there's something to take away today on earth.

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Day it is that we need a different way of having an economy run that serves.

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People's interests doesn't just serve financial interests of speculation.

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Doesn't continue this gigantic wealth gap that we've experienced what.

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Continues to grow and lives in a sustainable way, that is in some steady.

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Stage within the limits of planet earth.

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Thank you. Thank you, council member smith. I have no report.

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Thank you, councilmember pete, my smith. Yes, I want to thank my colleague.

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Councilmember rallo for his remarks concerning earth day. The idea of a.

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Steady-State economy has been around for a long time, but I think that every.

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Disaster, be it a pandemic or an ecological disaster that we we see just.

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Brings that point home all the more that we have limited resources and we've been.

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Living for in excess of what those resources can be can provide for decades.

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So this is the 50th anniversary of earth day. 1970 was the first earth day.

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Celebration, which brought together environmental activists that had been concentrating on on events really the.

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Oil spills, fire pollution, rivers catching on fire on in.

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Cleveland, for example, that were rallying around specific environmental disasters.

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And catastrophes and this earth day event really brought them together and.

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Made the whole movement political and I think that at the time, global climate.

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Change was not really on their radar. We have come a long way as far as pollution.

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But a more existential threat is global climate change, which has, I think you.

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Know gotten out of the headlines, I mean the only headlines we see these days or.

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About kovat 19, but we mustn't forget that climate change continues. Scientists.

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Predict this year will be the hottest on record, and these these problems are not.

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Going away, even as we all stop driving and just work from home, I think that.

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Many activists are calling on cobin 19 and the changes that people.

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Have undergone in their personal lives, as and and and the the massive changes.

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Of the economy as an opportunity, um not that there are good things I mean, I know.

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That that most people are suffering in one way or another, but an opportunity to.

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Rethink our economy and our habits and hopefully approach these things in a new.

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Way approach life in our society, especially in the in our in the united.

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States and in our rich country, in a new way to say you know when we get back to.

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Normal, it shouldn't be normal, it shouldn't be back to driving everywhere.

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To going shopping, just for the sake of buying stuff, we don't need.

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We need to reevaluate, but with our economy and our ecological.

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Footprint and this crisis, which is terrible, but it gives us an opportunity.

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To do that, so I hope that we well as a society. That's my report. Thank.

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You councilmember flaherty, yes, I'll, have a brief follow-up on earth day as well.

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Wishing everyone a happy earth day here on the 50th anniversary, and it is an odd.

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One where we can't gather together and celebrating take actions. Similarly, I've.

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Been reflecting on you know, what is the defining crisis of really humankind to.

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The climate crisis and our current pandemic health crisis, koba, 19 and.

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Really, what struck me most about how they're similar is it? It's the.

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Vulnerable people in our society that are that are most affected and first.

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Affected so of course, in the context of of cova 19 that has been elderly people.

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People with underlying respiratory conditions, which actually does have.

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Climate dimensions, because people who live near polluting facilities who live.

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Near highways, most often people of color as communities are affected by our.

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Choices in the context of global climate change and they're the people most.

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Vulnerable to this copán, the coronavirus as well as increases in heat, that we are.

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Seeing here in bloomington and around the country and around the world so.

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These are really centrally issues a justice, and I would invite everyone to.

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Go back or to go and listen to senator gaylord nelson's remarks that he made 50.

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Years ago today, in town meadow kicking off the inaugural earth day, those can be.

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Found if you just google iu on earth, the iu student government and residence hall.

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Association put out a speaker series today, a series of videos and that.

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Includes also a link to senator gaylord nelson's remarks, they're incredibly unsafe. If t years later, we have made a lot of.

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Progress on air and water quality but, of course the looming threat of climate change has become ever worse and again. I was struck also by senator gaylords.

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Really forward-thinking view of justice, he understood quite well, but if people.

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Are going hungry and without shelter that we've won nothing at all in the.

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Context of the environmental move so and the other thing that he were the.

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Emphasize that struck me is, is that it- and he was unequivocal about this- that.

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While the federal government certainly had a responsibility to play, so too did.

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State government, county cities, towns, individuals, this isn't everyone.

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Everywhere, a problem and just like the collective action and solidary that's.

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Been needed to deal with the cova 19th endemic, we really need to as we move.

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Forward move past this, like my colleagues, have said, not go back to.

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Business as usual, you know try to continue to make progress on this really.

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Really big looming problem, as we've seen with cova, 19, preparation and and taking.

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Care of things on the front end is far far better than then waiting for the.

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Crisis to emerge and trying to respond. So that's it. A lot of yeah interesting.

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Parallels, I think, between what's happening in these strange times, were in.

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And with with the climate crisis, so I wanted to share that reflection thanks.

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Thank you, councilmember rosenberger. I think I have a comment as well tonight.

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So I I emailed the administration today and really have been thinking about what.

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We should be doing here in bloomington for folks during the period, and I know a.

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Lot of bigger cities around the country and around the world are doing things.

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Like closing streets and closing lanes to vehicles to give folks more space to.

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Physical distance, while we're under these orders, so people still want to get.

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Out and about so, I just want to put it on our radar and everyone's radar that.

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This is a good time to close down some roads or close some lanes on one-way.

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Road, so that we can get folks off the sidewalks, I mean a lot of times our.

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Sidewalks aren't really wide enough to get folks six feet from each other and.

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If we take lanes, you know we'll have another 20 feet or so that folks can get.

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Out so I don't say this as well as other web sites, so I wanted.

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To read a little bit from the rails-to-trails website that speaks to.

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This and some ideas that could we could do here in bloomington to give people.

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Better options for getting outside safely so, as we all know, americans are.

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Hunkering down and efforts to slow the spread of code mid-nineteen, at least 261.

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Million americans are on orders to shelter in place or stay at home and.

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Under much of this local guidance, there includes outdoor exercise as essential.

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And many public health experts are reinforcing the importance of being.

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Physically active, it's vital to our wellness and boosting our immunity as.

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Long as we maintain a safe social distance or physical distance of at.

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Least six feet between people nationwide trail uses up nearly 200% making it.

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Increasingly difficult for people to keep 60 is face between each other and.

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Forcing a trail managers and local officials to take action quickly for.

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Guidelines at parks and trails, so that's mostly about parks and trails. One thing.

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That is clear is that every american made safe, immediate access to the.

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Outdoors trails in every neighborhood right now and our our local elected.

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Officials have the power to make this happen, so many communities don't have.

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Outdoor facilities equipped to handle the search and use especially trails and.

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Parks- and I know here in bloomington- we are having a hard time with the b line.

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Being incredibly crowded, even I'm out there, sometimes at 7:00 in the morning.

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And it's hard to keep face between me and others, but so this is a result right.

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A fewer people traveling to work, and it's not only that people are staying.

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Home but our vehicles are staying home, so while car traffic has significantly.

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Decreased in many towns we're seeing a big increase in the amount of folks who.

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Are out and about, of course, it's true that we don't have students here right.

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Now, for the most part, so we have a lot fewer cars on the road and while we may.

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Have fewer people on sidewalks because we have to keep this distance where.

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We're normally one foot between each other now we're six feet. It's like we.

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Are we just have a lot more people actually, because we need that extra.

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Space, so I think it's a great idea for us.

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And the city to look at possible ideas to create an integrated closure of.

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Street so folks can more easily get to our grocery stores, the bike and on foot.

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And can get through different neighborhoods a really good connected.

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Route of closed streets, so this could look like something you know where we.

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Have residential a residential street in every neighborhood that becomes a.

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Pedestrian boulevard and it's only open to through traffic, so that might be.

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Something like west 4th cm prospect, hill or university over an l height or grant.

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Street in bryant park, just some ideas just streets- that we got a lot of people.

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Living there and then the whole neighborhood can use it as a space space.

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To physically distant safely, while they're outside, we could also look at.

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Closing some parking lanes so sixth street and fourth street downtown both.

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Have parking on both sides of them and right now, of course, there aren't a lot.

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Of cars parked downtown so limiting parking to one side of the street and.

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Then, using the other side to extend a sidewalk could be a creative idea. Other.

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Cities are also doing are decreasing residential street speed limits to 15.

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Miles per hour, so that we don't have folks feeding in places where people.

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Might be outside, I think you know, as this goes on and on. We might just want.

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To look at getting creative and really getting more space out there for people.

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On bikes and then walking, we wanted to just bring that up. Thank you. Thank you.

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Very much I will make a comment before we move on with the agenda and I'll be.

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As brief as possible, one of the things that and many of the relationships that.

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I built with other people is that I think it's valuable to share each.

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Other's lived experiences how it affects your life years and years ago, my dear.

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Grandmother who raised us used to say some things that didn't make at the time.

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Tons of sense, but as you grow older, they do one of the things that she used to.

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Say was is that when america gets a cold, people like us get.

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Pneumonia now later on in life, I found out that people like us meant black.

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People and minority people here in america- I say all that to say this: this.

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Pandemic in any other social emergencies, as we have seen- and it's evidence tends.

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To put a spotlight on the social disparities that we go through in this.

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Country, as you can see through this disparate effects that has been brought.

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On by cova 19, it is dis, barely affected people in poverty or near poverty. Black.

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And brown people and other racial minorities other minor or marginalized.

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Populations a lot of this due to what I believe is systemic institutionalized.

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Races, practices that is manifested itself into lack of medical, medical.

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Access for some of these populations, it has created the system, food deserts in.

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Many of our urban areas and landscapes- it has also, as we can see, created some.

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Transportation issues in particularly folks who are dependent on public.

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Transportation so, as we come out the other side of this pandemic, I think.

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There is going to be a lot of lessons that everyone learned and I just want to.

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Make sure that that is also one of the things that we think about and learn.

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With regard to how we treat each other socially, how? The system in which we.

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Operate treats other folks, and that made we can improve and become a better.

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Society as we move forward, so thank you. I believe the next agenda item is update.

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On the city's response to the covet 19 public health emergency from the mayor.

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And city offices, but there's only one report tonight and I see mayor john.

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Hamilton is present mayor you're on. Thank you very much. Can you hear me? Okay,.

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Yes, okay, thank you again, councilmember sims and all of you for.

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Welcoming me and thanks to the public, to all of your paying attention, I.

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Appreciate being with you again, I want to give a couple updates tonight. I first.

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Want to start just mentioning dawn johnson, who you all know has been in the.

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Hospital she is now home, which is a delight and we're very relieved for that.

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She spent ten ten nights in bloomington hospital and I actually wanna just on.

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Part of my report actually share a statement from her to the community as.

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Part of the mayor's report and if I'll just read that and then I'll finish, my.

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Report with a couple other comments, but this is from dawn. I want to say thank.

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You to the bloomington community for the encouragement and love expressed to me.

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And our family during the ten nights I struggled with kovat 19 at bloomington.

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Hospital, my brother also was hospitalized in indianapolis. During that.

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Same time and now is recovering at home in kokomo, but my 79 year old mother was.

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Not able to win her battle with kovat and we lost her last thursday in.

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Addition to saying thank you for the support I would like to share a few.

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Thoughts from that difficult experience, my brother and I and countless others.

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Would not be alive today if it were not for the willingness of nurses, doctors.

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And other health care providers to risk their health and very lives. I was.

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Painfully conscious and deeply grateful for their sacrifice each time they put.

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On protective gear to enter my isolation room to care for me, including days, I.

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Struggled mightily to breathe, I understand more profoundly than before,.

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That, if we do not take seriously the threat of kovat and physically distance.

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And follow sensible public guidelines. We endanger the lives of these dedicated.

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Frontline workers, as well as their children, grandchildren and parents who.

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Share their homes, it has our moral obligation. I also want.

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To say that it is terribly dangerous in an outrage.

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That president trump and others are encouraging insane theories that colvett.

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Is somehow a hoax or that certain local and state governments are implicated.

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Somehow kovat has already killed my mother and a hundred and seventy five.

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Thousand or so others our success at overcoming this health emergency and.

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Global pandemic depends on us sticking together following health experts and.

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Science and not allowing cynical political ploys or games to divert us.

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From our duties, thank you again to the whole community and let's stay the.

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Course, together, that's from don johnson and I appreciate.

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You letting me share that and for all the support we've gotten. It is true that.

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Health care workers saved her life at a risk of their own families, and I just do.

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I do want to repeat the continued physical distancing is key. It is.

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Outrageous that some leaders, including our president and are calling for.

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Protests against civic authorities and rebellions against stay-at-home orders.

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And such that's a dangerous deadly and despicable game, and I want to report.

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That we are unified here in bloomington, and I appreciate that from the.

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Leadership to support the continued listening to health experts and doing.

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The right thing with the physical distancing, I'll just briefly report as.

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Well- and I do want to thank the city and the members of our community for.

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Continuing to adopt and embrace the protections that are so important, we.

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Continue to work, the continuity of city government meets weekly and, as you know,.

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We're continuing to provide services, I think again, all of our employees, who.

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Work for us making services continue the approve the you do: unified development.

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Ordinance has been approved and signed, we're continuing works which are.

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Departments, new eight new, affordable apartment units opened with a virtual.

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Ribbon-Cutting last week at the new park, farmers market continues nearly 500.

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Patrons were accommodated efficiently. You see progress on kirkwood.

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Construction and many other projects that are going on there are some events being canceled. B-Town boom has been cancelled.

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Tasty bloomington has been canceled, at least for the scheduled plan. Blackie.

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Brown festival has been canceled city pools were we're trying to understand.

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What the options are for those as we go forward, no decisions made on that. I will.

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Add my thanks and recognition of this 50th anniversary of earth day how.

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Important it is that we continue to do the good work and give the good energy.

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Toward that I'll just I'll just know that can remind us that that can be.

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Quite effective the first earth day in 1970 within three years of that first.

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Earth day within three years, the following had happened: one the.

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Environmental protection agency was created to the clean water act was.

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Passed three: the clean air act was passed and for the endangered species.

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Act was passed within three years of the first earth day, building momentum and.

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Building public support toward that is a good thing. It was very powerful then, and.

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We need to keep that kind of momentum. I am happy to take questions at the end of.

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This I'm going to hand it over councilmember simms if it's all right.

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For brief, updates from the two coordinators of very important external.

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Work groups on social services and economic recovery and stabilization and.

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Recovery and beverly calendar anderson and alex crowley. If that's okay with you and then maybe we all can take questions. Thank.

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You it is fine with me and all of us who shall go first. I see mr. crowley, your.

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Direction: okay, let's start with alex, are you doing mr. crowley.

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I'm sorry mr. crowley doing well thanks pretty much councilman simms. So thanks.

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To everybody, for your comments and to mary hamilton for dawn's very moving.

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Statement I'm alex crowley, I'm the director of economic and sustainable.

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Development, I'm gonna share my screen here, so I can take you through a couple of slides of a presentation. Give you an update on the work of the economic.

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Stabilization recovery working group in a second here so can everybody see.

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That, okay, mm-hmm, yes, okay! So you know in the interest of time I'm gonna kind of.

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Fly through this, you have a copy of it and distributed, and so there will be.

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Some differences from the last presentation I gave, but just get through.

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This and then I'll be open to questions at the end, so I want to start by.

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Reiterating who the working group is and the tremendous work at east chain.

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Kupersmith brian pain, jen paroled and read more insurance through it, and I.

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Also want to add that council members scan blurry and county council member.

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Have been very integral in this and hugely beneficial, the work really hung.

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In there with us and and provided great feedback along the way, so I wanted to.

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Draw your attention to their work and thank them for their participation and.

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Their knowledge along the way, so this is a chart that you've seen already. I.

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Updated it through today, what this is basically in the light blue are the.

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Number of people who, on the platform to start applications, the dark blue, are the.

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Ones who have completed their applications and the yellow starts out.

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The ones that we've started to review so you'll see those numbers here again.

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There's a you know, an uptick in activities, especially on the we did on.

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The 20th and the 22nd we took a look, and our our presumption is that that, as the.

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Monies were starting to run out of the the ppp program, which is the the federal.

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Program, an sba monies people started to look elsewhere for potential sources of.

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Funding so so that's how we're interpreting those two numbers.

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This is a snapshot, it's a sort of different view of today.

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And basically, it looks at everything all this status of the application men so.

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What you'll see circled there is that we have awarded and wired and central wire.

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Seven awards so those loans are wired, but but each of these different status.

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Represent where where people are in different areas, so under committee.

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Review means that those had been submitted after we started the first.

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Batch so there are 14 of those another four came in actually after we even.

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Issued those 14 so there's an additional four in the queue we'll get those into.

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Review as quickly as possible, we awarded 14. There were started fitting in this.

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Review but it 122 spending submissions, we've turned one down along the way.

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Because, actually that- and it was in the county, one entity- and I wanted to.

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Actually tip my hat to them, one organization was awarded alone and then.

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Sort of simultaneously had gotten funding from the federal government and.

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They came back to us and they appreciated having been awarded the loan.

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And they and they suggested that perhaps we could reuse that money for someone else. So I think that was a very honorable thing to do and appreciate.

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Them doing that then, as I mentioned, we we've wired seven awards and then there.

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Are eight who had been bumped into a side process which was more of a kind of.

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Review there was not enough information, so we're going back to them and trying.

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To work them through to hopefully yes on the program so as you'll see total.

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Applications that have been approved 22 for a total funding approval of five.

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Hundred fifty thousand of which for 49 six come from the food beverage tax and.

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101 170 come from bu va. Those have been funded. The seven I mentioned before.

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Total 240 thousand six hundred dollars, all of which has come from the fv.

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Everage funding source and the reason for that is, we actually have two.

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Templates and so we started with the food and beverage one and.

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You a one is in real-time, even as we speak being approved and they should.

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Have there's an additional actually 72,000, maybe even a little more that's.

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In progress right now for wiring instructions, which just happened, this.

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Afternoon so, just just to reiterate: it's a pretty controlled process and I want.

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To make make sure that everybody understands that we're we're doing this by design and you'll see here a just a starts and finishes an application. It.

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Goes into a financial and impact review committee, which has been stood up by the.

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Mayor to appoint many members and leaders to look at that, we then take.

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That all of that input into our department actually and and develop a.

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Recommendation and in the case where we have conflict of interest flags before.

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Taking very seriously in this case as well, we pursue those, and we also see.

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Also, in the cases of the appeals process, kick those off to a to a manual process.

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Following that, we go to funding approval, which involves our department, which is.

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Economic, sustainable development, but but the controller and legal departments are.

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Involved in that once that's done, there's a whole document creation and.

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Signature process, which we start in the applicant fitness finishes and then.

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Final approvals come back to the city and the three departments review them.

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And then this is the controller, kicks it out to the bank to issue the wires so.

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It's the process, improvements along the way- and this is important- largely.

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Because we are, in, you know, concerned about making sure that this is smooth.

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And also, what are interested in making sure that we've added at the suggestion.

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Of the reviewers themselves, some changes to the impact and financial review.

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Processes, probably most important here is financial review. We ask every new.

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Applicant to submit a credit report, which is a free credit report.

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That really helps a lot to understand what kind of situation we're dealing.

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With so this is fiscally prudent and we're really trying to make sure that we.

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Smooth out the process and ensure controls in the process.

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So there are continuing issues to address. You know this is all moving very.

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Quickly but we have an eye on the following: there's still a drop-off.

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Between the the applications in progress and those that have been submitted, we.

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Need to understand better what there are our continued challenges reaching.

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Underserved businesses via communications, we've done some outreach.

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To try to short the cares, act evolves every day and so trying to keep track of.

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That and make sure we understand the role that we're playing relative to that.

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Is an important consideration, so we can move forward and then just a challenge.

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That we're facing is that the group that has submitted applications where there's.

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More information needed it's just very manually intensive. It must reside at the.

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City because of its dealing with very sensitive information- but you know.

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That's that's a process that that you know we're. Gonna have to work out a.

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Little bit more, so that's my presentation and exit this and open for.

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Questions when you're right- yes, I'm trying to get to my screen, sorry about.

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That miss beverly calendar anderson. Thank you.

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Councilmember sims, I'm beverly calendar answers anderson with the community and.

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Family resources, department and the social services working group is.

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Continuing to meet- I think I told you last week or maybe week before that.

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We're meeting in subgroups under the headings or the topics of shelter, food.

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Health and public safety and childcare, and so all all of those committees are.

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Led by members of that group and have been meeting to find out what the.

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Priorities and each one of those areas happen to be. We have gotten an initial.

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Reports from three of the groups from shelter, childcare and.

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Food continuing to work with the public safety group to get their immediate.

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Priorities also starting to look a bit into the future about what it's going to.

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Look like so not so much looking for those that have where we've dealt with.

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Some of the immediate needs looking at what it's going to look like as we.

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Continue in the marathon, because we know that some of the real results of this.

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Are going to be longer term than just the immediate and we're moving from? I.

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Think now, from crisis to emergency, and so we're looking at that. What that's.

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Going to mean for staffing what that's going to mean for volunteers, what that's.

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Going to mean for supplies and equipment needs and and and all of that, the.

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Isolation, shelter for people experiencing homelessness is up and.

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Running last week, when I spoke with you, they'd had one guest they've had two.

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Others since then, actually, I think there is one there. Now we have a group of us.

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That meet daily just to get an update on the shelter. How many people are there if.

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There are any needs and and what's going on, and so we have a morning meeting.

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Every day that involves the city and the county and the shelter administrators.

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And management public health- I think that's it, so we are all aware of what's.

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Happening with and in the shelter and if there any needs were able to address.

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Them right away and not look, you know not have to wait two or three days or.

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Weeks and then we're also continuing to look at data from helping bloomington.

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Monroe again to see where our residents priorities, priority needs are and right.

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Now the most of what we are seeing is food. That's one of the highest priority.

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Areas so we're going to integrate that information with the information that.

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We're getting from the agency director so we're get it from an agency standpoint, as well as from an individual standpoint that.

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Way so that's about what I have today unless there are any questions, hey thank.

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You very much we'll now go to my council colleagues and if anyone has any.

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Questions for mayor hamilton or mr. crowley or miss calendar anderson. I need.

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Councilmembers campbell larry, thank you. I have two questions for mr. crowley.

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First of all, what was the of the loans that have been funded? What was her size.

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Range for those in dollars, so the highest was $50,000 and the lowest. I.

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Believe was, I believe, the lowest one was in the was sub $10,000. So in the an op.

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Dude I'm doing that from memory, but I believe it was yeah four digits exactly.

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And somebody needs to do something right now and to follow up to a second.

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Question one of the priorities we've talked about as the council from the.

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Very beginning is ensuring that we're reaching women and minority-owned.

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Businesses, could you comment on that and how they are represented, not to.

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Spend those what we funded, but also among applicants yeah. So I alluded to.

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This before, I think so, I've, if you remember last week, had some charts on.

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That and I, in the interest of time I was kinda that sort of toggle between that.

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And maybe some of the funding from week to week, so you could get a sense of both.

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There's limitation of time we are, I think, we're doing a much better job of.

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Reaching women than we are minority businesses and we have reached out.

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Internally, to various to my colleagues at the city and and also to our partners.

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In the community to see what we can do to amplify the messaging to communities.

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That are harder to reach, so some effort has has gone into that and we need.

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To double down on that effort- and so we are getting some minority and other.

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Underserved communities applying which is encouraging, so the word is getting.

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Out but it's not to the extent that I think we thought we'd like to see right.

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Now so we have to do more work on that front and what are some of the ideas.

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That you've all talked about for reaching that community. Well, so you know.

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I reached out to beverly and and cf rd, and you know they have various access.

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Points into communities via commission's that they have and some other groups.

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That they interface with and then we and they have also reached out to the.

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Chamber who has access to certain groups that are you know, businesses that are.

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Owned black owned business subgroups and that's our thing among their membership.

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So we're trying to really lean into that as much as we can and just generally you.

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Know trying to promote it, I think we need to do more on social media than.

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We're doing, and then we have to just get a little bit more creative. I think we've.

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Been so our hairs been on fire here, trying to stand this program up, that a.

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Lot of attentions really spent on getting it going, but but as it's going.

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And starting to smooth out some of the some of the issues that we've run into.

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Hopefully we can spend more time really reaching out to those groups. I can add.

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To alex's what alex said, we have work with the chamber, they have an.

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African-American owned business affinity group, and so they have communicated with.

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That affinity group and then the commission of the status of black males.

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Our commission on hispanic and latino affairs commission of status of women.

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Have all shared with their groups as well, in addition that councilor.

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Community accessibility has shared information with persons who are members.

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Of that group who may have have physical or other kind of disabilities that may.

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Be business owners and so we've tried to share that information as widely as.

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Possible- and I think the chamber's group is probably the largest group that that.

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We've worked with, but but they have been connecting this.

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African-American business owner affinity group for about the last year and so.

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They are pretty stable and pretty connected groups, so I know that they've.

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Gotten the information right. Thank you both very much.

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Thank you any further question of this group from council members, council.

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Member smith, miss calendar anderson, thank you for the report and I wondered.

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Who you said, hunger is one of the problems that really seems to be.

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Bubbling up who is hungry and how do we get food to them? In your mind, I think.

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What we're finding is that it's food supply, and so I couldn't tell you.

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Specifically, who's hungry, you know which families there are, but I do know that.

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Keeping the food bank stocked full enough so that they've got supplies for.

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More than two weeks at a time is an issue, and then you know there's you know.

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The food bank then feeds into a lot of the other agencies like a community.

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Kitchen mother hubbard's cupboard our faith community pantries I mean the food.

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Banks is that hub that helps to feed into them, and so what we sort of found.

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From helping bloomington monroe, I mean are just people that are seeking food. I.

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Mean they're they're looking for where to get food, and so it doesn't really tell you how big the family is or the age or anything it just sort of it tells.

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You, where what it is that they came to the platform to find, but on the other, on.

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The other side on the agency side, of that. It's really just trying to keep that food supply from getting low and making sure that there's enough to carry.

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Us through especially to the summer and that's what we're looking at now and.

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Then the other thing that we're hearing is that there are particular types of.

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Foods that seem to be in short supply. For instance, the community kitchen went.

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From serving you know, in a dining room style to sending things carryout and so.

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They were looking for things that were very portable, like fruit cups or tuna.

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Whatever, like that, and that seems to be difficult to find.

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And so from their regular vendors, and so they are having to purchase from other.

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People and so just finding those kinds of staples you know to have stocked in.

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There in their kitchens right what so, what would all of us, what would be the.

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Best thing that we could do you know as citizens and the public to help the food.

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Bank out well, I can't speak on behalf of all of them because I don't you know, but.

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I mean you know: food drives just having having those staples there. I think you.

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Know the food bank is probably going to be seeking funding so that they can.

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Purchase items and and and I would suspect the same from some of the other.

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Agencies, but that would be helpful to them, but we can actually the the white.

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Papers that we've done talk about specific dollar amounts that are going.

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To be needed to keep places like the food bank in food for more than two.

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Weeks at a time- and that's some information that I can share with you with the council- would be great yeah, but as far as the public is concerned, you.

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Know that food drives and things like that would be good if you can do it in a.

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Safe way with social distancing, it also sounds like one of the great things.

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Would be just to donate some money to your local food bank, whichever one you.

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Whiche ever yeah, whichever wouldn't you do that yeah that you see fit yeah so.

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Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember piedmont, smith. Yes, I just.

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Wanted to follow up on councilmember smith's question, or rather miss calendar.

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Anderson's response, so is our the is the food bank having trouble getting food. I.

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Mean do they have enough money but they're just having trouble finding.

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Places to spend that money on food or is it, is it more of a local supply issue so.

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At the time, I think food banks nationwide are seeing an increase in.

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Need, and so what has happened is that has that slowed down some.

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The delivery and so they're having to purchase from other places rather than.

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Their normal supply chain just to have food there, so it's not necessarily that.

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They don't have the money they need right at the moment, but we're also.

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Looking out and projecting to based on the increase me, but but some of it is.

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Supply chain, some of it, is availability of the type of food that they need and.

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Some of it is just being prepared for the increase, because there has been an.

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Increase in need all the way around their families that are visiting mother.

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Hubbard's or community kitchen that have never, you know been to a food provider.

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Before and so we're seeing that increase in need, which of course then puts more.

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Pressure on each one of those agencies to make sure they've got the food and if.

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You're, if you're stocked up for two weeks for a particular number and that.

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Number increases, then that means you're using that food quicker. Then you would.

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Normally, so, and needing to get more supplies in so they're having to go to.

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Alternative sources for food. Does that answer your question? I'm sorry! Yes! So it.

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Sounds like it's. It's both. Both things are problematic, both higher up in the.

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Supply chain, getting you know, wholesalers to find it finding new.

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Wholesalers to buy the food and then also just being able to help families.

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Here locally and just dealing with the increased need right yeah. Thank you.

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Mm-Hmm. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions from council.

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Members: okay, seeing none thank you, mayor hamilton, mr. crowley, and miss beverly or.

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Miss calendar anderson really appreciate seeing you tonight and thank you so much.

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For the reports, thank you, okay. Thank you. Alright, now we'll move to any council.

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Committees, do we have any council committee reports this evening? Okay,.

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Seeing none next item on the agenda is appointments.

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To boards and commissions after we have any such yes, I'm sorry.

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Councilmember sandberg, thank you. We would like to recommend the.

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Reappointment of tracy gates to the parking commission. Second, okay, have been.

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Properly moved in second, and as we do on virtual meetings, where the clerk please.

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Call the roll and some members cammalleri yep rosenberger yeah sims. Yes,.

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Few months, man, yes, clarity, yes, smith,.

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Yes, sandburg; yes, bravo, yes! Okay! Thank you that passes nine. I'm.

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Sorry, eight zero or adopted eight zero counts.

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Remember sandburg: do we have any further, not from team c? Okay. Thank you.

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Council, member smith, president simms I'd like to make a motion to appoint marry.

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Morgan to the bloomington urban enterprise association, seats iii zone.

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Resident one, okay need a second thank you. It's been properly moved in.

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Second, madame clerk, will you please call the roll I'm so member rosenberger yeah sims? Yes, humans, men, yes,.

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Flirty, yes, smith; yes, sandberg, yes, rallo, yes, scan blurry, yeah,.

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Thank you thank you, and that is adopted. Eight zero. Do we have any other.

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Appointments to boards or commissions this evening, okay, seeing none thank you.

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Next item on the agenda is legislation for second reading and resolutions.

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Councilman repeat: mosfet, yes, mr. vice president, I move that ordinance 2009, be.

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Introduced in read by the clerk by title and synopsis only second, thank you. It's.

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Been properly moved in second with the clerk, please read: we need on this motion.

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I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry you're, absolutely correct. Madam clerk, can you.

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Call the roll to vote on this motion. Yes, councilmember, sins, yes, biman smith. Yes,.

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Clarity, yes, smith. Yes, sandburg! Yes,.

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Rallo, yes, scandal, ory yeah, rosenberger yeah. Thank you.

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The motion carries 8 0. Now, madam clerk, will you please read yes, ordinance 2009.

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To amend title 2 of the bloomington municipal code.

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Entitled administration and personnel and grant authority to act in accordance.

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With declared disaster emergencies regarding amending to 22030 entitled.

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Employee policies complying with state of indiana's declaration of disaster.

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Emergency under indiana code, 1014 312, the synopsis is as follows: ordinance.

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2009 addresses the operation of city government during the public health.

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Emergency resulting from covin 19 in a men's employee policies to allow the.

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Mayor to order some or all employees of the city of bloomington to continue to.

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Receive pay during their regularly scheduled non overtime, work hours for.

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The duration of an emergency declared by the governor under indiana code, 1014, 312,.

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Then, for the duration of this emergency it invokes indiana code 1014, 317 j, which.

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In part, allows political subdivisions to waive procedures and formalities in.

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Regard to certain of its functions and gives the mayor the authority to.

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Implement those measures as long as those actions are consistent with that.

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Statute, the governor's executive orders or any other applicable law declaration.

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Order or decree also for the duration of this disaster, emergency add to the.

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Extent consistent with guidance from the state board of accounts, it authorizes.

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The controller to approve the payment of all necessary city expenditures and.

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Defers the action of the boards and commissions, which normally review and.

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Approve those these expenditures until after the emergency, an ultrasound role.

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At that time, to the review and approval of the controller's actions, your.

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Committee of the whole recommendation of april 15th was due past nine zero, zero.

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Mr. vice president, I moved that ordinance 2009 be adopted.

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Second, it's been properly moved in second comes from council.

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Parliamentarian, how would we introduce the amendments? Well, should we have an.

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Overview of the ordinance again, first or.

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Well, yes, we do, I'm sorry, go ahead and proceed and then we'll talk about as.

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Amended so no you're, absolutely correct, so believe it's been properly moved and.

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Seconded with the clerk, please, the rule, you know we have miss daughtry. I think.

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To present, as the presenter for this ordinance, okay, I see you down there. I'm.

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Sorry miss guthrie aye good evening. The synopsis is pretty.

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Clear the intent behind this, while it was prompted by the state board of.

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Accounts primarily, but also the governor's executive order, the.

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Stay-At-Home order, 2008 and the intent of this ordinance is.

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To provide the city with flexibility to occasionally and judiciously waive.

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Procedures and processes that we normally follow in the event we need to.

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Respond to some element of this emergency situation more speedily than.

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Our processes and procedures would permit normally and the first provision.

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Is to actually that one is an amendment of our existing bloomington municipal.

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Code regarding employment of our personnel, and that would allow us, in the.

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Event we needed to to address this particular emergency to send employees.

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Home with pay as long as they were available and working as much as they.

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Could from home during their regular work hours, the second provision is.

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Designed to allow the administration the ability to be flexible and nimble and to.

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Waive procedures as necessary to accomplish certain actions to respond to.

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The crisis and again- and that is in compliance with state law which, under a.

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Declared emergency, I see 1014 317 j5 to waive procedures.

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And even laws in order to respond as necessary and the third provision is to.

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Permit the controller to make expenditures under the same kinds of.

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Circumstances where speed is required and the effect this is in direct.

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Response to the state board of accounts memos- and there were three of them.

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Wherein they suggested that the local government union unit, particularly the.

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Legislative body adopt a policy that allows this kind of flexibility for the.

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Controller and if there is a policy, then when the spo a comes to audit, they will.

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Not issue an audit exception to anything that didn't follow our normal procedures.

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Which is what they would normally do. So that's, that is the summary of the.

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Ordinance and I'm happy to answer questions and controller jeff underwood.

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Is here as well, hey, thank you. Didem controller under would care to present.

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At all, or just be available for questions just available for questions.

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Do we have any questions from council members, council members campbell of the.

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Things we talked about when we did first reading last week, is that right lee you.

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Know you that you observed that we can't know what kinds of things might come up.

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Necessarily because it is a crisis, an emergency, I know it's only a week later.

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Is there anything we've learned in that week would add on you know to what you.

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Commented on last week last time, well I'll rely on jeff to answer that as.

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Well, but I am not because there are so many moving parts and I'm not always.

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Aware of all of them, but one of the examples that I cited last.

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Week, which is still, I think, a kind of iconic example. If you will was signing a.

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Contract for hotel space for our emergency responders in about five days.

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Without sending it to a board, and in fact it's not possible to get it to the.

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Public safety board until well, it's not set yet, but they have to have a special.

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Session, so I don't know if jeff are you aware of any other things I mean it.

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Hasn't come up all that often today we had one today that was a community.

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Foundation grant that we that the community foundation fast-tracked in the.

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Parks department and I fast tracked as well- to provide a couple of locations.

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For to create pods for childcare, so normally that would take. We wouldn't.

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Take that back through that, we would have taken it to the parks board for.

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Approval but we're gonna go ahead and get that signed and ready to go so that.

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We can start housing those people right away, so I said so you're hearing most of what we're seeing is the process of getting a.

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Contract through and approved by a board before it's signed, that's hopeful. Thank.

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You very much thank you any further questions from council members. Okay, just.

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Following up with parliamentarian, do we now go to the public or do we consider.

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Further paper or further amendments, I would say we would go two minutes now.

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And then the public can comment on the amendments individually. Okay, thank you.

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Very much okay, we have coordinates 2009 amendment 1. We have a total of 3. This.

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Evening I do believe and the sponsor of this, of all 3a, but of this first one is.

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Council, member flaherty, yes and point of order: do we motion to adopt the.

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Amendment to start the discussion. Yes, so I move, we adopt amendment 1 to ordinance.

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2009 second, thank you adopt adoption.

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Ordinance number one of 2009 has been properly moved in ii. Miss clerk. Can you.

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Please call the roll, we would have a presentation, I believe.

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We would have the presentation then from the sponsor and then the administration.

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And then questions and then the public and then we vote on the amendment.

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Ten-Four, thank you. Steve. Come back come on, go ahead, man sure yeah. So this.

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Amendment is pretty simple, as the synopsis lays out. It's really just to.

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Clarify what the administration has confirmed, their intent of the different.

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Sections is, there was just a little bit of ambiguity in the initial discussions.

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Where at section, 1 of the ordinance applies indefinitely, because it's a.

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Change to city code to apply to any future declare an emergency sections. 2 &.

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3, by contrast, are only meant to apply during this current köppen 19 related.

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State emergency, so it adds a little bit of language that specifying that it is.

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This code 19 emergency, including, I believe, current declared emergency as.

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You can see in the parenthetical there in section 2 that then becomes.

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Referenced later in section 3, so pretty minor change clarifying that those two.

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Sections are only applying for the current emergency and not in case of.

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Future rare disease, I'm happy to answer any questions yeah, that's it jay. Thank.

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You these any council members, have any questions for council member flaherty.

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Yeah counsel- may repeat my smith. I just.

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Wanted to check, in with ms guthrie to see if what the administration's.

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Response is, we are fine with that. I'm indian.

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Thank you have any more questions from council or any questions that are ok.

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Parliamentarian, do weed adjudicate this or move on to the second amendment. We.

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Would now go to public comment on this? mmm Okay.

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Thank you, mr. lucas, do we have any one into public.

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No one has chimed in yet, but you might want to give folks just a couple of.

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Seconds to either use the chat, function and zoom to let us know if you'd like to.

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Make a comment on amendment one or you can use the race hand function either.

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One will let us know that you'd like to to make a comment, and I'm not seeing.

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Anyone, but you might want to give it just a few more seconds, no takers.

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Okay, miss parliamentarians. This comment time now for council members. Yes, okay, do.

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We have any comments from any council colleagues on this amendment. Amendment.

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Number 1 of ordinance, 20-9 call the question on amendment 1.

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Second, before we move forward council, member p must mend yes, I just wanted to.

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Thank councilmember claire day for bringing this forward when I initially.

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Read the legislation I had the exact same question: does it apply to just this.

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Emergency or any declared emergency, so I'm glad we got clarification on that.

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Through this amendment, thank you, the question has been called and has been.

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Second, with a clerk, please call the roll I'm sorry to vote for this amendment.

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Yes, let's see so for amendment one counts. My rep iman.

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Smith? Yes, clarity! Yes, smith! Yes, sandburg! Yes,.

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Follow yes, skimble arre, yeah, rosenberger yeah, and since yes, okay, okay,.

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Council, member flirty, would you care to introduce amendment to yeah move that.

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Amendment to ordinance 2009 be adopted.

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Thank you improperly. The second. Can you present? Yes, so a little more going on.

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Here but the synopsis, I think, does a good job summarizing that the intent.

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Here is to make sure we're aligning with the guidance from the state board of.

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Accounts as well as just being as clear as possible and the procedures that.

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Should be used the, whereas clause that is proposed to be added, and let me also.

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At this moment, think counsel attorney sherman for his help in drafting this.

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And- and I just want to emphasize within the whereas clause which quotes from the.

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State board of accounts memos to provide some additional context for anyone.

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Looking at this ordinance that our policies and actions, the goal should be.

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To maintain operations of government as normal or as near to normal as possible.

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While maintaining the well-being of governmental employees and the public.

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That's really the goal here, so the other change is that in the section 2 of the.

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Ordinance, it adds a final sentence specifying that when the mayor exercises.

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Authority under indiana code, 10, 14, 3, 17 j, then it be done after.

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Determination that it is not practicable to use our normal or near-normal.

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Policies in that, in that event, if that determination, determination is made that.

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The mayor or his designee must then inform the council within a.

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Reasonable time period of that decision or of that action rather in writing a.

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View of the the change from from normal procedures, so the goal is really to.

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Again, stick to state board of accounts guidance as close as possible, make sure.

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We have procedures and guidance in place to ensure that this is not used broadly.

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But we're the only one necessary and, let's see really, I think, for council.

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As the legislative and fiscal body as well just to make sure that we're giving.

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Well, we're designating authority here that we continue to maintain appropriate.

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Oversight and accountability through reporting- and I and I appreciate the.

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Feedback from it's got three that mr. shermer got earlier today, and I think I.

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Think we're in a spot where the administration is comfortable with us as well. But I'm happy to answer any questions and hear from staff as well. So.

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I'll close with that, thanks steph any comments. We are okay with this amendment.

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Okay with this movement, thank you very much now, it's time to mr. lucas, do we.

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Have any public comments from the public council questions would be next? Please.

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Okay, I forgot these amendments, keep trying to you and homer.

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Thank you very much as as that's taking place, though, if any members of the.

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Public do want a comment on this. It might be a good idea to send a message.

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Via chat now to get lined up, if there are any comments, thank you out. Do we.

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Have any comments from council members on amendment to ordinates 2009, okay,.

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Seeing none, I think, we're ready for public comments. Mr. lucas and we have.

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Any takers, shit, no no takers, ten anna and we'll give it a few more minutes or.

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Seconds, but I would also are they also able to use the hand for the.

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And function rate crazy and functions. Yes, the chat function yes and I'll go.

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Ahead and just let folks know if you want to make a comment on the ordinance.

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As a whole, now would be a good time to. Let me know that I'll take a note of.

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Anybody that wants to make a comment that way we can move smoothly through.

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Through comments so no takers on amendment two though okay, thank you.

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Now, returning to council who have any further council comments, councilmember.

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Pete, nice man, yes again, I'd like to thank.

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Councilmember flaherty and mr. sherman and miss guthrie for waiting through.

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Some of these legal references to indiana code and the memos of the state.

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Board of accounts- and it was very detail-oriented work, which I'm always.

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One to appreciate- and I think that you know our well- let me just speak for.

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Myself and not others, um you know when this first this ordinance came forward.

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My initial reaction was oh yeah. We definitely need to give the.

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Administration, flexibility, because this is an emergency situation, a lot of.

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People in the computer suffering, if we can act quickly to alleviate any of that.

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Suffering, that's that's only good, but I think it is very smart to tread.

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Carefully to be very picky in our choice of words, in particular in exactly the.

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Details of what the ordinance says not because we distrust anybody involved, but.

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Just because it is our duty to have an oversight capacity, especially on.

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Budgetary issues, but also you know on other issues that may be waived in an.

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Emergency, so I appreciate councilman flaherty and councilman rosenberger.

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Upcoming for digging into this in more detail, I think it it makes it a better.

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Ordinance, overall than it, it does not in any way mean that we.

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Think that miss guthrie or anybody else is gonna, do something crazy.

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Hey. Thank you. I don't have a comment, no piggyback on that. um I think there was.

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At our discussion last week, maybe someone thought that maybe there was a.

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Distrust issue or an overreaching issue, but I think it's an accountability issue.

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I'm glad to hear that staff is okay with this and that there will be reporting.

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Should we lead to beer from the north, so I also want to thank councilmember.

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Clarity as well, okay, on that's council comments. Do you have any final comments.

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From council colleagues call the question.

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Second, thank you. Questions been called in second clerk voted council member.

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Flirty? Yes, smith; yes, sandburg, yes, briella! Yes,.

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Scandal, larry yeah rosenberger, yeah sims, yes,.

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Piedmont. Smith, yes, thank you, and that is adopted that I'm in eight zero. Okay, now.

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Moving to amendment three aboard miss 20, oh nine, councilmember, clarity, yeah.

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By president certains, I can hear me yeah, it's okay motion to adopt amendment.

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Three of orland 2009. What I did thank you, spin move and, second it can. You.

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Please present yes, okay, so this amendment is in response to section 3 of.

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The ordinance that allows the controller to authorize expenditures in advance of.

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Normal review and approval by council boards and commissions and/or really and.

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So this amendment just limits and just makes clear that the expenditures need.

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To directly address the current declared emergency, instead of anything that might.

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Just be ordinary business, so it's directly addressing the emergency and.

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Then only when the regular process is not practical due to the current.

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Declared emergency, so it also recognizes that council and 2018 created the.

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Oversight ordinance in the bloomington municipal code, that is to point to six.

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Point two zeros zero through two ten and in that ordinance I'm just going to pull.

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It up really quickly, that is where we talk about the normal procedure for.

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Things but then two point, two six point: two: zero addresses where that, when that.

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Procedure can't happen, and so it lays out a process as well. So this amendment.

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Is saying that this ordinance will work in conjunction with this provision of.

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Bloomington code, sorry I passed it and in the code it really just talks about.

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When there is an emergency and the controller needs to do this, it would be.

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At a time where the failure to transfer or expend funds would cause an.

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Underlying transaction not to proceed, which in turn would cause an immediate.

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Danger to the health, safety and welfare or loss to the city so kudos to those of.

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You on the council in 2018, you already sort of planned for this and an.

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Ordinance and so we're just reminding an amendment by amendment three than this.

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Exist, thank you and go ahead. I just wanted to chime in I'm co-sponsoring.

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This amendment- and I was a co-sponsor of ordinance 1810, where we.

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Did the initial kind of additional oversight of expenditures? So I don't.

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Have anything else to add and I think a rosenberger for the initiative? Thank you.

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Staff how the staff feel about this we're fine with it. Okay, thank you.

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Now we'll go to council questions, do we have any council members that have.

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Questions for the sponsor and co-sponsor councilmember rossum, barbara.

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Councilmember piedmont's met on amendment three of ordinates 2009, okay,.

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Seeing none and we will go to the public. Mr. lucas, do we have any takers.

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No one has lined up okay and during this process, we will again mention that you.

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Can access or offer comments through chat or you can use the raise hand.

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Function at the bottom of our zoom screen: no takers, no takers. Thank you.

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Okay, we've seen none here. Do we have any final council comments.

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Okay, well, the question council member smith. I'm sorry! Oh! I just briefly wanted.

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To say that, on my short time on the council, I I'm really it's really great.

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To see that this is, I think this is the way the process should work, and it.

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Refines the ordinances and it works together with other staff to make a.

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Better ordinance, so I'm thankful for everybody involved and I'll be.

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Supporting it, so thank you second, thank you. Questions been called had been.

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Seconded 4minute 3 2009 clerk, please call the roll.

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Counts. Remember: smith! Yes, sandburg! Yes, we're all! Oh yes, scandal! Larry yeah,.

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Rosenberger yeah sims, yes, keep on smith, yes, flirty, yes, okay and.

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That was adopted, eight zero as well, and we now have.

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Coordinates 2009 as amended council parliamentarian. Are there any final.

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Questions from council, I thought I'd just ask that I'm sorry, you have any I'm.

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Sorry any final questions from council on ordinance 2009, as demanded okay, see.

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None public comment, and I will chime in that no one has lined up yet for any.

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Public comment on the ordinance as amended, but you might want to give them.

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A few more seconds as this is the entire ordinance we will and thank you council.

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Parliamentarian, no we'll give them more time and give folks a tough time to.

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Think about it and see if they want to contact us and again I will remind them.

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You could either use the chat, function or a hand raised function at the bottom.

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Of the zone page.

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No takers, okay same none. Okay, is this final comment. Mr.

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Parliamentarian, okay, do we have any final comments from.

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Council members on ordinates 2009, as amended.

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Council, member flaherty- yes, I just wanted to thank again capsule members.

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Rosenberger as well as counsel attorney sherman for working with us on this, as.

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Well, as mr. three and mr. underwood, as I stated last week and will reiterate now,.

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Like I very much support the intent of the amendment and all the goals that the.

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Administration has laid out- I just thought that it could benefit from a.

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Little more clarity on their reporting and oversight as a responsibility of of.

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The council, but I very much support the administration having flexibility and.

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The ability to be nimble and in responding to to the emergency in the.

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Intent with amendments was not to restrict their actions at all, so I just.

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Wanted to reiterate that and thank those who worked on the amendments and yeah.

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We'll be supporting the ordinance. Thank you. Thank you. Any further, councilmen.

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Repeat my smith. Yes, I just wanted to thank the mayor's administration. The.

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Department heads miss guthrie and mr. underwood and.

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Others, as we heard earlier this evening, alex crowley, say that they've been.

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Running around with their hair on fire, it has, I know, have been very very.

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Challenging trying to deal with all of the fallout from the pandemic and the.

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Economic downturn, so I just really appreciate everybody. You know giving 110.

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Percent and I know you've been working very very long hours and I just wanted.

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To say sincerely, thank you hey. Thank you very much.

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And I'll make a final comment as well. I am elated that we've discussed the.

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Nimbleness and the flexibility for staff in.

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To be able to move quickly as we move along this pandemic along this emergency.

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But I also think it's equally important in particularly from this body that.

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There's a mechanism for accountability that is palatable for all involved, so.

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Thank you again for the hard work and all the input we've gotten from everyone.

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Okay, any more final comments from council call. The question.

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Second, I'm kind of question has been called and second it: okay with a clerk.

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Please read: I'm sorry, please take the roll, I'm sorry, please take the roll.

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Councilmember sandberg, yes rallo. Yes, it's campbell, larry, yep,.

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Rosenberger yeah simms; yes, piedmont, smith, yes, flaherty! Yes, that's.

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Me yes, okay! Okay, thank you. All again is ordinance. 2009, as a minute has been.

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Adopted nine zero. Thank you all very, very much. There are no legislation for.

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First readings as evenings will move to council sketch own that'll, be mr. lucas.

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Or mr. lucas, okay, yeah, just a few things I wanted to bring to the council's.

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Attention the first is: we've got a work session scheduled for this friday at.

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12:00 noon, obviously, if that work session goes forward, it will be held.

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Remotely but I wanted to get a sense of how many folks might be able to attend.

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That work session to see if we still need to have it the only item that would.

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Be ready for discussion is appropriation, ordinance, 2002.

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That's an appropriation ordinance you'll see in the coming weeks. That has to do.

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With a local match for a project on sayre, road and.

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If the council is ready tonight, we might also want to figure out the meeting.

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Dates for that particular appropriation ordinance and normally that scheduling.

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Responsibility falls to the council president, but given the public health.

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Emergency and the odd procedures we've been following, we wanted to give staff a.

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Sense of what dates the council might want to take that up, so that they could.

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Publish the required notice ten days in advance of the final hearing date, so I.

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Guess first I'll ask if, if anyone's interested in a work session on that.

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Item this friday and a show of hands of how many might be able to attend would.

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Be good, I see five, so it looks like that work.

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Session will go forward and, if we're not ready tonight, to figure out what dates.

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The council will will hear that and whether it'll go to a committee of the.

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Whole standing committee or no committee, we.

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Could also talk about that on on friday at the work session, so I'm getting at.

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Least, one nod that that might be preferred. I don't know if this is a.

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Comment time or not, but I think those that'll be there. Friday is probably best.

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To discuss that ban and mr. boland may be available as well, I'm not sure, but I.

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Think friday would be better. That's that's perfectly fine. Just wanted to.

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Bring that up as an issue. So the next item is a reminder that next week on.

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Wednesday, at our normal 6:30 time, we've got a budget advance meeting scheduled.

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That's a meeting that appears on the council's annual schedule. That happens.

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Every year it's an opportunity for the council to hear from the administration.

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From the controller's office from the mayor's office about the budget and a.

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Chance to get together to talk about priorities this year, it's obviously.

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Going to be a little under unusual circumstances, I expect we'll have that.

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Meeting remotely- and you know under the given under the constraints, we're all.

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Under with the public health emergency that might impact.

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Budget discussions, I just wanted to remind you that that meetings, gonna.

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Happen and ask if the council wanted to.

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Schedule a special session immediately before that budget advance meeting for.

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The purpose of making any further appointments to boards and commissions I.

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Know the work of filling those vacancies has sort of been put on hold, given that.

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We had to move to remote working situations, but a lot of those vacancies.

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Have been sitting and in need to be filled, and I understand that some of the.

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Interview committee teams have been meeting and and may be meeting next week.

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So if the council wanted to schedule a special session just for that purpose, it.

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Could do so now and then the budgets budget advance meeting would would.

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Immediately follow that special session comes when working on smith. I move that.

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We hold a special session on wednesday april 29th at 6:30 to be followed by the.

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Budget advance, jaqen, okay, spin, probably moved in second.

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Before we go further, do we have to mention the purpose of that meeting or.

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Was that part of what you just told us, mr. lucas, the council president or the.

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Vice president, actually acting acting under his authority can approve the.

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Agenda for that meeting I think I joined my my explanation. Everybody understand.

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That's the purpose. Okay! Thank you. It's been properly moved in second to.

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Schedule a special session for next wednesday evening at 6:30, immediately.

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Followed by the budget advance meeting with a clerk, please call the room.

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You're muted, let me try that again: councilmember rallo, yes, scandal, larry.

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Yes, rosenberger yeah simms, yes, piedmont's man, yes,.

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Clarity, yes, smith. Yes in sandburg! Yes, all right! Thank you all, and that has.

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Passed a 9, I'm sorry, 8, 0 and we'll be talking about.

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Scheduling scheduling for next week before we move to the next item, I just.

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Do want to say thank everyone for your patience, kind of a little bit rambling around know. It's a small agenda read a little bit to do, but more practice is going to be fun from my end. So thank you all for.

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Your sisters, and particularly our our parliamentarian, thank you so very much.

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Mr. lucas, okay, next on the agenda is adjournment. I will accept a motion to do.

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So move there we turn. Second, second spin moved in second clerk. Do we need to take.

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A role for that technically, yes, technically, yes, we, let's call the roll.

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Counts members can blurry yeah rosenberger yeah sims, yes good month,.

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Smith: yes, clarity, yes, smith; yes, sandburg, yes and rallo. Yes,.

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Kikyo's adopted 8 0, everyone have a great evening.

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And public you as well. Thank you all. Thank you.

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