City of Bloomington, Indiana City Council, 25 Mar 2020

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This meeting at the bloomington common council for wednesday, the 25th of march.

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2020 will come to order. Will the clerk please call the roll.

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Absolutely it counts my beret, your scanned mallory, your rosenberg sims yeah,.

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Just as a note, I think kate is here, I saw her join the meeting and I'm not.

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Sure, if she's having issues but she may join us at some point, that's why we're.

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Checking to make sure that everyone's mic is working, keep going. Madam quick.

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There's kate right there welcome back to her councilmember sam's ear rolling here.

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Piedmont- smith, here- clarity here, smith, here sandburg here in rosenberger, okay, I.

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Trust that mr. lucas will work with council rosenberger to enable her to.

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Participate in the meeting to summarize tonight's agenda, we will be.

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Hearing reports from the mayor and city offices, in particular an update on the.

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City's response to the code 19 public health emergency- we will have.

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Legislation for first reading and resolutions that includes ordinance, 2005.

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An ordinance authorizing the refining, the refunding of certain outstanding.

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Water works revenue, bonds of the city authorizing the issuance of the city of.

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Wilmington indiana water works revenue, refunding bonds of 2020 to provide funds.

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For such refunding and the payment of the cost thereof and addressing other.

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Matters connected therewith. We will then go to the legislation for second reading.

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And resolutions, we will hear a motion to consider ordinance 2005 on the same.

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Night it was introduced. We will also consider resolution 2005.

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A resolution from the common council requesting the food and beverage tax.

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Advisory commission to make a recommendation for expenditure of food.

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And beverage tax revenues, we look at council schedule and we will adjourn.

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Just to set the stage here a week as the former prime minister of england, harold.

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Wilson said is a long time in politics. A lot has changed since the last time we.

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Met on march 4th, we are living through an event unprecedented in our lifetimes.

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We are all having to adjust. As you all know, the governor of the state has.

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Issued several executive orders in this time of emergency, one of them has.

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Permitted us to conduct business entirely. Online dogs are going to bark.

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Children are going to trot in please bear with us as we navigate meeting in.

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This new way here are some of the ground rules, we're going to ask everyone who's.

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Taking part via zoom to wear headphones or earbuds, as I am too, if possible, to.

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Avoid audio feedback for the cat's broadcast whenever anyone is speaking as.

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You can see many members of the council are in fact wearing headphones members.

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Of the public on this virtual meeting will have both audio and video disabled.

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Until public comment, which will proceed as follows, members of the public wishing.

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To speak during public comment should click participants at the bottom of the.

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Screen then, click raise hand when a member of the public is called upon to.

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Speak council staff will enable both audio and video during that individuals.

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Comment then, disabled both when the comment is over council members and.

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Relevant city staff will be visible on the screen unless they turn off their.

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Own video, as president I will chair and will call on people to speak, just as at.

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Normal meetings, when someone wishes to speak, you should physically raise your.

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Hand if your accounts, member and wait for the chair to acknowledge you, we will.

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Do our best to accommodate people in the order that I and other staff see them.

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But it's not going to be perfect. I can only see 9 people on my screen. I'm going.

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To have to scan to make sure I can see everybody.

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So with that to comply with the executive orders issued by the governor.

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We do have to formally change our rules for meeting we're now going to entertain.

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Motions to ensure that we are complying with executive order, councilor piedmont.

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Smith, I believe you're going to make the first notion. Yes, thank you.

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I move that the council suspend its rules to conduct this meeting and future.

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Meetings electronically during the public health emergency in accordance.

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With the governor's executive order, 2004 and 2009 in any future executive orders.

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Or related guidance provided by the public access councilor of the state of.

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Indiana as part of this motion, I also move that the council affirm the.

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Decision to conduct this meeting electronically and to suspend the state.

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Requirement of explicitly adopting a policy for electronic participation and.

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To allow members to participate in meetings electronically pursuant to.

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Applicable state guidance and instruction second at motion: there's a.

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Second, we have a second. This is a debatable and amendable motion and it.

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Needs a two-thirds majority to pass. Are there any questions or comments on the.

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Motion seeing none I'll entertain other questions on the motion. Second, we have a.

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Call in a second with the clerk, please call the roll on the motion.

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Councilmember skanda laurie yep rosenberger, yes, sims. Yes,.

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Bowling? Yes, piedmont, smith! Yes, clarity! Yes,.

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Smith, yes, sandburg, yes, rallo! Yes, thank you. That motion passes.

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Nine and zero. The next thing that has to happen is the executive orders from the.

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Governor state that any business we conduct.

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Has to be considered essential, or should it's not appropriate to be taken out.

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Taken up at this time in performing my duty under blue municipal code, two zero.

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Four: zero: seven! Oh to approve meeting agendas. I have determined that the items.

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On tonight's agenda are, in fact essential matters critical to the.

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Operation of city government, with that, I will now call for the next motion from.

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Council would be month smith, yes, as a more general measure, to address the.

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Governor's executive orders, 2004 and 2009 and guidance issued by the public.

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Access councilor, I move that the council suspend its rules under bloomington.

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Municipal code, two zero, four: zero: five: zero regular meetings and bloomington.

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Municipal code, two zero: four: three: eight zero order of business at regular.

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Sessions and any other rule hindering the conduct of essential business at.

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This time of a public health emergency, in addition, the council president, shall.

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Have the authority to cancel or reschedule any meetings deemed.

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Non-Essential or as necessary to conduct essential business. The council may also.

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By majority vote decide how to place time limits on matters or speakers.

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Before the council, including delegating such authority to the presiding officer.

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Such suspension of the rules shall last until the expiration of the governor's.

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Executive order, 2004 and 2009. Second, we have a motion in a second. This also is.

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Debatable and amendable and needs a two-thirds majority to pass. Are there.

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Any questions about the motion: does everyone understand fully what this.

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Means there so I'll entertain a motion to vote so moved second motion in a.

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Second, with a quick, please call the roll on the motion. Councilmember rosenberger.

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Yeah sims, yes, boland. Yes,.

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Smith, yes, flirty; yes, smith; yes, sandburg, yes, marlo! Yes,.

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Scam, burglary yeah. Thank you that motion passed nine zero with that.

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We now go to a report from the mayor and city offices who will begin? Will it be.

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Mayor hamilton, yeah or staff mayor hamilton, please go ahead. Thank you very.

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Much can you hear me alright, said: okay cut me a loud and clear. Alright, I.

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Sincerely appreciate the chance to be with you all virtually, and I appreciate.

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Everybody who's weighing in watching cats, other ways: social media. The last.

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Time we were officially together not quite in this way, but in such a meeting.

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Was five weeks ago at the state of the city council meeting a lot has happened.

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In our community country and planet since that time, tens of thousands of.

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Students have been sent home mid semester, thousands of our residents have.

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Lost or risk losing jobs, hundreds of small businesses are worried whether.

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They will be around next year or next month and of course, at bottom. All of us.

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Are deeply concerned about our health and the health of our families and.

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Neighbors, I appreciate the chance to provided an update this evening as a.

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Reminder it was less than three months ago in the city council chambers, that we.

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All took our oath of office and which time I noted that we were in a climate.

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Emergency that emergency still exists with its two big challenges of first.

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Doing our part to protect our planet from climate change and second making.

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Sure that all of our pee people have places of dignity and.

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Respect in that future, but in the interim weeks this second emergency has.

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Arisen and has moved to the front burner center stage. We face a public health.

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Emergency from the corona virus, a global pandemic.

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Like none in the last 100 years and it demands all hands on deck, this public.

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Health emergency requires our collective, immediate, serious response who, among us.

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Is not moved by seems perhaps previews in a washington state, nursing home or an.

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Italian hospital or in the streets of new york city, or of the world's largest.

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Democracy, india- and we know locally already- we've lost neighbors to the.

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Disease and its impact is already dramatic and increasing we're doing many.

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Things that we can and should be doing to respond emergencies are declared at.

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Local state, national and global levels, we are mobilizing to protect lives, not.

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Only from the direct health threats, but also to assure our safety net and our.

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Economy are protected as fully as possible. As is said, we are in a marathon.

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Not a sprint, really we're in a marathon that starts.

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With a sprint and we're still in the sprint phase, let me just give some key.

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Updates of key players: first, our city government itself is very focused on our.

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Role, I created a continuity of city.

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Government task force, which has met six times in two weeks, implementing new.

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Protocols to protect our employees while continuing to deliver our critical and.

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Basic government services: we are responding to the ongoing governor's.

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Orders, including the recent stay-at-home changes, including.

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Playgrounds this morning, all city buildings to public access adjusting to.

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Life with physical distancing, while continuing to provide our services, we.

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Are continually evaluating risks and threats to our services from the water.

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System to public safety and implementing new protocols just some examples: police.

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Have changed their operations to protect officers from infection, including.

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Eliminating physical role calls taking reports, not in person or only outside a.

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Home, rather than inside water bills are no longer paid in person, and we are.

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Isolating our water plants and their workers, fire stations are separating.

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Crews from each other and not allowing public entrance, we are assuring ongoing.

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Services, while protecting our employees, and can I just in front of you and all.

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Express sincere and deep gratitude for our public workforce who show their.

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Dedication to this community every hour of every day as your mayor and with.

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Others in the administration, we are also coordinating closely and regularly among.

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Many other community institutions, our health system, is in full swing, doing its.

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Best to prepare to meet major demands led by the county health department and.

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Iu health, our health professionals have invoked their emergency plans and are.

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Assembling supplies of personal protective equipment like gowns, masks.

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And gloves medical equipment, including isolation, beds and ventilators and.

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Needed personnel, they are constantly reviewing contingencies, as they are.

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Seeing now, as predicted, a rapid rise in local potential and confirmed cases, all.

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Are extensively coordinating within the county region state and beyond to be.

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Ready for the needed surge and to give their health health advice and direction.

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Health guidance has led to no in-person dining to physical, distancing and now to.

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Stay at home order, our health system is focused on protecting all of us, as they.

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Can to new social services and economic teams are now in place to coordinate.

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Essential local support for people experiencing homelessness or food.

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Insecurity or meeting childcare as an essential worker and to identify local.

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Steps we can take to protect wages and jobs and to improve the economic.

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Recovery that we know will be needed, among other things, both of those groups.

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Can also help align our local efforts with major federal help available just.

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Very briefly, the federal help we expect to be passed imminently includes direct.

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Payments to taxpayers twelve hundred dollars to each plus $500 per child to.

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Low and moderate income households significantly expanded and enhanced.

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Unemployment benefits the emergency loans to small businesses who retain.

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Employment and they are convertible to a grant loans to any business in distress.

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From the federal reserve and special support for our hospitals and health.

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Systems there may be new funds available through city and county government as.

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Well and all of us as residents are also doing our part, the need to do our part.

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We each have a key part to play in addressing this health crisis. Stay at.

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Home, if you can, and if you are among those who have to work or when you go.

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Out practice: physical distancing, if you have no safe home reach out and get to.

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Help being organized, we all should manage our household needs.

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For example, assembling several weeks of basic supplies in case someone gets sick.

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Don't go out at all if you're sick watch out for and help those at higher risk.

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Stay at home, much as you can, let me close with just a.

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Few points and then we'll open up the questions. Let's be clear, we are in a.

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Public health emergency unknown in any of our lifetimes, demanding serious.

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Effort and attention people are hurting now and it will get worse before it gets.

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Better, our federal government- and it is not time for finger-pointing, but let's.

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Just say that the lack of foresight and coordinated federal efforts, for example,.

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On testing and equipment or physical distancing mean that local and state.

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Governments have to step up and lead. We will get through the health crisis with.

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Smart actions, but not without pain and loss, and we also have to deal with major.

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Challenges to our safety net and our economy, both of which also threatened.

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Very real damage and harm- I do want to note our community is stepping up and.

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Standing up in many powerful, inspiring ways we can take care of each other and.

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Take care of bloomington what each of us does truly matters: physical, distancing.

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Staying at home as much as we can, please know how many people during this stay at.

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Home directive are nonetheless hard at work on our behalf, of course, government.

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Public safety, water systems, transit, sanitation, streets, animal shelter and.

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All pharmacies, grocery stores, banks, our gas, electric digital infrastructure,.

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Delivery: drivers, cleaning services, construction workers and many more and.

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Our amazing health care workers who risk their own health to protect ours. Please.

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Show your appreciation to so many who keep our communities functioning in.

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These challenging, I will share regular public information.

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Presenting to you as counsel and other ways, so we hope no one feels out of the.

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Loop, we welcome direct inquiries as well through our office phone through email through the website. We are all in this.

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Challenge together- and this is a great community to be in it together with take.

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Care of each other take care of bloomington. I'm happy to take questions.

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From you, as you may have, and thank you for for the time. Thank you mr. mayor.

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We greatly appreciate it and I'm sure that there are many questions that members have before we open the floor to questions. I would like to ask you: have.

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Other presentations from staff that you'd like to make or are they just here.

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To answer questions, I think it's just me other than the their staff, our.

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Presentations on the legislation tonight, but just me now, and they can help me out.

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With questions and answers with that, I'm going to open the floor to questions.

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From council members are there questions for the mayor on the the crisis and the.

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Response councillor scambler ii. Thank you. Thank you, mary hamilton, and thank you as well.

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To city staff, they've done amazing work this week and for the last actually very.

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Different kinds of federal support- you talked about directing jobs, also talked.

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About assistance to hospitals and healthcare facilities, can you say a.

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Little bit more about that, I don't know a lot of the details. That's in the.

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Federal package that is a pending approval, I understand they may do some.

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Things like changing medicare reimbursement rates. There may be some.

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Direct support of public health systems and hospital systems which they surely.

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Do need, but that's really all I know at this point and I hope it comes okay.

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Thank you. I don't remember.

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Council member biman smith. Well, I think my question maybe one that councilmember.

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Rallo raised earlier, so I'm gonna. Let him go ahead of me. If that's all right.

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Cut the rallo, did you have a question to pose? I did I'm not sure it's the same.

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One, but I think it would be helpful, perhaps not this evening, but at our next.

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Meeting or at a future meeting to try to determine the extent of this crisis when.

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It will likely take for indiana for our community. I know that it requires more.

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Data, that's not necessarily forthcoming right now we don't know the number of.

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Infected in the community or in indiana, you know we can only estimate, but as we.

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Administer more tests, maybe that will be clearer and we could at least put sort.

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Of bounds on d on the infection rate and a number of caseloads and so forth, so we.

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We have a understanding of the extent of this and how long it may persist, and I.

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Don't know who would have that information?

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Perhaps there are modelers who are working at and at any other university.

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Or at the state board of health, but I think that would be very helpful for.

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Local communities, including your own, thank you, councilman morello I'll, make a.

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Couple comments: you know, the data of course is very sparse because of so.

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Little testing that goes on that will change and, as more tests are available.

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Our numbers are surely going to rise quite dramatically in terms of people.

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Infected by the with suffering from kovat 19- and you know we, the official.

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Numbers are at the state website. Health department, monroe county has gone.

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From 1 to 4 in the last few days, that surely will rise their pending.

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Tests and others, and I think, as many people expect, more testing will just.

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Reveal more disease in terms of the modeling, I will be hoping that we can.

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Collectively, share some information, not I haven't, I haven't seen it yet, but I.

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Hope there will be some modeling that will start to look at the pacing that we.

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May see the numbers we may see as soon as that is available, I hope to be able.

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To share that with all of us, and that does come out of the health system and.

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The in the academic world- but I do think that's really important for us to have a.

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We're in this we know for a number of weeks and we can kind of get previews.

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From other communities and states, and have seen the pacing that they're going.

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Through their states and communities that are a week ahead of us or a few.

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Weeks ahead of us or three weeks- and we can get some sense of that- though each.

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Each community is a little different.

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Customer, although does that conclude your question, it does have another. Let's.

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Go to um yes, I was wondering if there was any coordination between house care.

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Providers who have access to personal protective equipment and employers.

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Grocery stores, pharmacies and other large employers of people who have to.

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Work to be able to provide their store personnel with personal protective.

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Equipment has there been any coordination of that sort. So there's a.

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Lot of coordination going on among many of those institutions from various.

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Healthcare institutions to our own public safety organizations to indiana.

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University to employers and others who are who are communicating together on.

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The on the stores of people need a personal protective equipment. The needs.

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For and such it is a frustration I know not only for the health care.

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Workers who so desperately depend upon it the masks, the gowns, the gloves as.

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Well, as many other people is, for example, our public safety officers and many.

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Others and the lack of kind of integrated national planning on that I.

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Can say that most of the, in my view, most of the kind of ultimate decisions and.

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Recommendations about what's needed and where it's needed and how to be sure to.

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Have it in the most essential places is driven by the health system, the health.

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Professionals who are trying to assure that those gowns masks and gloves as.

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Well, as the beds and the ventilators are going to be available, where they're.

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Needed I know also, there are a lot of entities working together to increase.

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The supply of all kinds of that ppe and, in fact things like 3d printers that the.

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University and some private sector folks have activated to produce more.

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Ventilators by making the appropriate parts and that kind of thing and.

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Similarly, I know a local company is trying to help figure out how to sorry.

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Sanitize used masks to to supplement that so there's a lot of coordination.

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Going on that- and I expect that's a pretty dynamic situation as we go, I had.

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A follow-up question: if I may please go ahead: customer p1 smith, so I.

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Understand that health care providers, of course, are having these kind of.

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Discussions, but what about kroger or cbs or blooming foods? You know the other non.

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Health professionals, who are still on the job and interacting with people, do.

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You know if those companies have been able to to get masks for their employees.

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Yeah, I think I mean you know we're an employer as a city and we think about.

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Where do we use mass and how do we use them and what numbers- and I know, I'm confident that many of those employers you mentioned.

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And many others are looking at their needs and projections. I think what I can.

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Say about that is given the fact that we don't have masks for everybody. I think.

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The it is the health system, it is the public health professionals led by our.

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Public county health department, the state system and, frankly, all the way up.

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Through the emergency management system, the national system that is helping lead.

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The the the efforts to increase the masks I wish we had more, but it's it's.

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From my perspective, it's kind of up to the health professionals to help guide.

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That and I know employers are talking to them about that as well, and.

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Unfortunately, you know this is a. This is a moving picture, but it's where we are.

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Cosmo barolo is our appoint to do the continued continuity of city government.

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Task force, I believe he has also response to come to review on smith.

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Question go ahead. Mr. eller yeah thanks. I have some relevant information. One.

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Source was council member smith this morning, since an email which was a press.

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Release by a number of retail outlets talking about their anticipated, their.

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Actions that they're taking to try to increase separation between cashiers and.

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Customers- and there was a press release today from kroger, and this was forwarded.

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To me, by dave askins from b-squared beacon, who was asking questions to about.

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Employees of kroger and it talks about that.

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The press release includes a statement that says a company now plans and.

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Additional steps designed to protect the health and safety of our associates and.

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Customers, as a result, kroger shoppers may soon see associates wearing.

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Protective masks and gloves personal protective equipment is in short supply.

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Across the country- and we fully support america's health care workers.

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Having first priority to obtain it, we're asking government officials at all.

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Levels for help securing a priority place for all grocery workers after.

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Health care workers to have access to protective masks and gloves soon kroger.

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Will be will begin installing plexiglass partitions and many cash registers to.

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Further promote physical distance for each place, so so they are taking steps.

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It is clear that we have a shortage of masks and clearly health care workers.

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Take a priority, but it's something that we need to consider and I'm glad that.

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That kroger and other retailers in our community are stepping up to to provide.

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That's social distancing that will help prevent the transmission. Thank you.

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Constable rallo customers, smith, I saw you had a question next or maybe a.

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Comment cut first smith: this state the state also issued guidelines for health.

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Workers to go into people's homes in the state issued that about 3:30. This.

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Afternoon, which governs you know home home and community-based services, so can.

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You can you expand upon that? It was if somebody appears that they have an.

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Illness use protective gear, don't go in, have them tested, it was a. It was a.

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General guideline and it didn't offer much in the way of extra protective gear.

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But it it talked about some common sense on if somebody appears to have been.

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Infected or if you know, and the worker itself themselves to stay home, if indeed.

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There's any illness that might be present and it might be infectious.

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And so that that's that's about all. I want to say about that. Thank you.

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Councillor smith, are there any further questions for the mr. mayor? You had a I.

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Just wanted to comment on that many many people watch. I know.

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Governor cuomo of new york and one of the things he said, and he was talking.

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About ventilators, but it applies to all of this kind of equipment, is one of the.

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Really unfortunate situations is all most states and locales and institutions.

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Competing against each other to try to get the equipment that should be.

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Allocated in a much more rational way, pricing can can cause problems and and.

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Availability- and so I think it is it's great to hear this- we're continuing to.

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Seek supplies but again, from my perspective, that's an important reason.

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That the health system as a whole we need to, we need to support the.

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Allocation of these resources, so there's not just all the highest bidder against.

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The highest bidder to try to to try to gather up a bunch of these these. These.

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Equipment that are so important to share, among so many people who need them and.

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Anyway, I appreciate all the information and and we'll keep we'll keep watching.

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That it's a daily changing situation we'll continue to seek to purchase it.

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Too, as we have from the city, but again we need to, we need to coordinate all.

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Together about who needs it most, who needs it now, who's gonna need it. Thirty.

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Days from now, and that kind of thing, thank you- are there further questions.

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From council members, council member sins, thank you first, I'm gonna thank the.

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Mayor for his report, thank you very much and I do appreciate the metaphor that.

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This is a marathon, but it's a sprint first book and we're in this print phase.

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Now, having said that, and I know it's early, but do you have any information or.

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Any knowledge of possible reimbursement of municipalities on some of the funding.

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We may use from either state or federal sources, and I know it's early in the.

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Game in that it may be premature. It's early first, I would say we are not.

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Declining to do anything at the moment, because of cost we are, we are taking all.

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The steps that we think are appropriate and can take to maximize the health.

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Protection and the economy and the social safety net protection that we can.

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So, of course, we will run into cost questions. I think the main thing I would.

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Say is we do expect reimbursement through both the federal system and then.

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Through the state we are, we are very intentionally at fire chief, jason, moore.

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Is very experienced in this and we're very intentionally setting up the.

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Systems to track all of those expenses today, last week, the week before that.

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That relate to the emergency response, because we do think there will be.

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Significant reimbursement, we just don't know what that'll be. That's that's true.

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For a lot of our private sector to you know they may be able to get reimbursed.

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For a payroll and other things, which is which is really important and that's.

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Something that our our continuity of city government is paying a lot of.

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Attention to- and it's also something the economic recovery folks are gonna, be.

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Paying attention to thank you any further questions.

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Cosmo rallo, I think you had a second question. Well, it's a question. I'd like.

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To direct to someone from the health department was someone able to attend.

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This evening we I did ask penny caudill to attend. She said she'd be able to. I.

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Don't know she's on the call, yes, penny özil. She is. Let me let me activate her.

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Thank you, mr. lucas. Maybe maybe I could go ahead. Mr. mayor, maybe I could close.

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Out, if you will, if there certainly if there are more questions for me, I'm happy to be around but listen. I appreciate all that all of you are doing.

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We're gonna be in this together for a little while, and I look forward to.

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Working on this, with you continuing to report to you and and just as to the.

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Agenda tonight I just want to add my support. I appreciate your support. I hope.

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It will be for the cbu bond refunding speaking of financing that will save us.

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A couple million bucks, which is there gonna, come in handy and second, the the.

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Potential redirection of the food and beverage tax proceeds which there's a.

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Lot of details to be worked out, but we look forward to doing that with you and.

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Support the move forward tonight on both of those things and I'll I'll await if.

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You have more questions, but thank you and I hope to be seeing you again soon.

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Virtually yep. Thank you mr. mayor. Please stick around to see minute. Well, I see.

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Penny caudill is join the meeting miss caudill. Thank you so much for joining us.

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She is the county health. Commissioner, can you can you answer counselor for.

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Ella's question, certainly I think so. Can you hear me all right? Yes, you're coming.

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In loud and clear, wonderful, I am going to ask you just to repeat the question.

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If you don't mind.

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Sorry about that, my question is: if, if one suspects one is has the virus is.

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Testing available, and it's so weird well, the first thing that I would say is.

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Testing is not available for just anybody who may want it. There is testing.

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Available through the hospital which may use private labs or may use the state.

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Lab other providers may have may be able to take specimens and tapes. Send those.

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Off to private labs, but there is criteria for using those and first and.

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Foremost, it is those who are the most vulnerable, those who are hospitalized.

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Who have symptoms? Who may need care, and we need to know if they're infected and.

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How that will affect their treatment? Also health care providers and people in.

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Long-Term care facilities so there's a set of criteria. That's really used right.

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Now, and that does quite honestly limit testing, so testing is available. It's.

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Becoming more available, but it is still limited. So the two things that I would.

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Say: first, if someone thinks that they may be ill with co, bed, 19 or they're.

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Just concerned they can use iu health, spiritual app or cd.

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See also has what they call a self tracker, so that you can use those and it.

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Will kind of walk you through the steps that, yes, maybe you should be tested and.

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Then try to connect you to that testing or they may be able to guide you. This.

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Sounds more like something else, or this is what you need to do so it kind of.

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Walks you, through those assessments, I realize not, everybody has access to a.

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Virtual app or the internet so that would leave people really using the.

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Telephone to call their provider and get guidance on that.

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So I would be hopeful that down the road will have testing available in a more.

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Complete whoever needs it kind of way, but I think that that will come in a.

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Stair step, I think, right now, it's very focused and it will probably when it.

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Opens up more it will. The guidance will just get less and less until hopefully,.

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Just if you want it, you can be tested. Okay, thank you. Thank you for answering.

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That I think it really I mean the the corollary to here here- is that if.

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Because of lack of testing and because of the fact people can be asymptomatic.

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For a long time, but still infectious, that it is true that you should probably.

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Assume that anyone could be infected, in other words, that's why we have the self.

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Isolation: that's why we have the social distancing is to prevent any potential.

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And and that's that just is a very important step that we have to take.

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Until we can determine the extent of the of how many of us are infected in any.

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Community at this point is that it is that generally true, generally, yes, that's.

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Why these orders are so important? They they are difficult. There is no doubt.

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About that they put a strain on us as individuals and a strain on our economy.

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But it is to get people to shelter in place so that we're not potentially.

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Spreading infection or getting infected, we.

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Know that the incubation period can can be long, but we also know that most.

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People will develop symptoms within five days and then recovery for most people.

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And this is again why we want to test the people most at risk for.

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Complications right now, with testing being limited, is that the majority of.

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People will have mild symptoms and be able to recover at home, so we want.

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People if they are sick or they think they may have been exposed and certainly.

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Follow this stay at home order so that we can monitor ourselves and if we, you.

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Know feel like we are getting worse, that temperatures are rising, there's a real.

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Shortness of breath you have underlying health conditions, then certainly call.

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Your doctor, first, we don't want people just showing up to providers. We want.

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Them to call ahead first so that they can plan appropriately and we're not.

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Inadvertently, perhaps exposing someone without realizing it. Thank you.

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Thank you, this miss caudill. This gives me a chance to to fulfill the reason why.

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I asked you to this: can you give us a general report beyond what you've.

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Already answered to councilor ello on the state of county health during the.

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Crisis sure I'll try not to make you know I'm too long, but it's the mayor and.

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And you pointed out, the governor has stayed at home orders in place and we.

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Went we support those? It is a strategy to reduce the spread of code 19 and that.

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Includes social distancing, it's a health strategy to reduce disease transmission.

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So it is important to save lives and to keep our hospitals from being.

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Overwhelmed quite honestly, you talked about sort of the peak and what may.

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Happen and part of all of this is also to kind of spread out the need for the.

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Hospital, so if we can reduce infection rates, slow them down, then that also.

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Slows down the demand on the hospitals over time so far, and this is.

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This morning, so indiana state department of health has confirmed 477 cases in.

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Indiana, and that is covering at least 51 counties, and that's all since the.

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Beginning of march, they do have a dashboard that people can look at daily.

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It's updated every morning with each county, how many cases they have.

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Confirmed and unfortunately, we have had deaths in indiana and it will list those.

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And also the number of tests, that's being done, so I will do want to say.

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Something about testing and the dashboard it one of the reasons that.

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We're pulling at people there to monitor those numbers is because we want to keep.

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Them as solid and concrete as we can, we don't want to be counting. Somebody twice.

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We don't want to not count somebody private labs have to report and they.

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Report to the state health department, so there is a little bit of a lag time if a.

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Test is done at the state lab, then they have those results and they can add.

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Those to that count very quickly, a private lab, there's a process and.

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They're going to have to submit that to the state lab and then it's got to get.

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Kind of in that queue to be added, so, yes, there is a little bit of a lag time that.

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You may see in those reported cases, but that's the best way for us to just make.

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Sure that we have a central place to follow those at this time, I would say we.

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Know that there is infection throughout the united states in indiana and in.

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Monroe county, and so yes, we have to act as though it is there and wherever we go.

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We could encounter it. I do encourage people to try to keep up with facts.

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Versus fear and there's lots of fear and rumors and things that go around so.

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We're really trying to direct people this the center for disease control in.

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The state department of health who, for current up-to-date information and.

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Guidance it's coming out rapidly. I know a couple of you already mentioned new.

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Guidance, we have staff who are looking at guidance at.

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Every day and trying to keep us up to date so that we can share that with the.

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Entities that if those two so we are sending things out to businesses and.

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Retail food establishments to daycares or schools, whoever it might be really on.

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A daily basis is that those updates come out so for the most up-to-date guidance.

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Look at those sites, we are posting on our website. We have links to them. We.

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Also have information on our local press releases and that kind of information.

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The other things a couple new things that that I would say there are a couple.

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New numbers that might be important for people to know with some of these orders.

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And the different things that are going on right now.

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There is indiana essential business and operations list that can be found on the.

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State website, so, if you want to know if your business is among those that are.

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Considered essential- or you have questions about that- that's a good.

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Resource and there's a new hotline, it's critical industries hotline and it.

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Opened yesterday morning and it's to help guide, businesses and industries.

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With the executive order, so does it apply to you so I'm going to give you.

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This number and the website, but it is also on our website and it's at the.

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State health department website, so the phone number is eight seven. Seven, eight.

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To zero zero, eight nine zero and the email is co. Vid response at I d, as in.

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David c dot, I n dot gov and those are two good new resources. So we do want.

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People to check those out we've been trying to get information again out to.

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Businesses to let them know, there's also some resources that are available to.

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Businesses and we've been trying to send those out to them. We'll say this is kind.

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Of response to one of the questions earlier, as well with the county.

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Emergency orders that also allowed us to send up and apply for.

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Hopefully, to get fema money, so we hope that there'll be some relief from fema.

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As well so again, you talked about chief moore, having experience with.

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Documentation, the mayor talked about that, and so it is important for people.

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To document what they're spending on this, so that, when funds become available.

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And we're doing those assessments that we have that available. A couple of.

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Things I you also asked about masks, and I will tell you that ppe is another.

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Concern it's a concern for us and certainly when you have a pandemic and.

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The need is beyond what the capacity is. You have to make some hard decisions and.

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Certainly, right now those health care providers, the people on the front line.

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With and the patients who may be infected are kind of first in line to.

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Get that ppe and then long-term care facilities and it's kind of triage down.

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Even with sns with national strategic stockpile that comes from the federal.

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Government we have very strict guidelines about where that goes and and.

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How its distributed I'm very pleased to say that there are people stepping up to.

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Say hey. I have these masks that I'm not using or I've had these for a while. I.

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Had them for another use and they are being able to be distributed, sometimes.

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To our healthcare providers, but also to some of those entities that may need.

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Them and not be on those lists, so the hospitals are also tracking what they.

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Need locally, we track people can report to us so long-term care facilities for.

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Instance can report if, when they're getting low, and so we know when to.

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Request those from the state, but there just isn't an abundance and with that.

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There are people, you've, probably seen making homemade masks and while they are.

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Not approved for medical care, necessarily, they can be helpful if you.

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Have nothing so there is guidance on that and we are.

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We have people who are donating those and we're trying to get those out to.

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Some of the places that feel like they need and want masks but may not have.

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Them available and in those cases where it may be better to have that than to.

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Have nothing but I do want to make a couple comments about homemade, masks and.

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Just having masks and using them when you've not been used to using them or.

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Taking care of them, so we don't want masks wearing to give people a sense of.

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False security security- they still may not protect you, they may offer you some.

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Protection, they need to be taken, put on and taken off properly or they can.

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Support you can spread germs that way, and we want to avoid touching our face.

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With our hands right, we want to wash our hands well wash them often and avoid.

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Touching our face, which is very difficult, I'm I myself find it very hard.

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To do I wear glasses, I want to touch them all the time, so I so I understand.

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And even from personal experience with having to wear some of these face, masks.

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I found that I was messing with it all the time, so, if you're touching something.

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And your hands are contaminated and then you're touching the mask. Then you may be.

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Spreading germs that way as well so again just can be a false sense of.

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Security and some of the material may get warm and hold moisture. So just think.

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About those things when you're using masks, learn how to put them off how to.

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Take them off properly so that that would be my most important thing to say.

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About that, the other thing that I would just say is that we want to thank.

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Everyone for their efforts in this pandemic- and I do mean everybody- it is.

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Disrupted lives and livelihoods, it's difficult for everyone, and we appreciate.

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The understanding, the support and everyone understanding that we have a.

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Role and responsibility in this, so the public sector has a role and there we.

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Know that they're getting hit hard, the public and public service has a role.

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This is a good time to talk about the public health system. You know when we.

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Oftentimes people they either think public health, they think hospital or.

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They think health department, but the public health system includes city and.

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County government, it includes our businesses and our individuals and our.

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Schools all the different partners that we talk about, that we're working with so.

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We want to thank everybody for their efforts. I believe that we will get.

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Through this together, but we definitely need need to be.

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Following the directives so that we can slow the spread of this infection, thank.

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You miss caudill and as if to underscore your words as you were speaking, the new.

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York times published an article describing the surge in cases at.

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Hospitals in new york city, as one doctor, is not describing it as apocalyptic.

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Thirteen people died at one hospital in the past 24 hours in new york city from.

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The coronavirus to that end, I'd also like to call on councilmember flaherty.

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Who is the chair of the climate action resilience committee for a brief report?.

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If he has additional things to add yes display. Thank you. Thank you. Council.

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President boland, I had two items to report on, as you mentioned as chair of.

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The council's climate action in a resilience committee first, I just wanted.

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To know for the public that is watching that this committee, which is made up of.

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Myself and councilmembers piedmont, smith, rallo and rosenberger has been tasked by.

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A council president voland to take up and work on issues of community.

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Resilience in the face of the cova 19 pandemic in particular, will be working.

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With the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as with other community louetta,.

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Efforts, this may include recommendations to the.

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Common council on possible legislation in time, but may I also include simply.

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Highlighting and sharing information connecting constituents and members of.

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The public with resources and nonprofit organizations or developing supporting.

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Other plans to enhance the resilience of our community in light of the current.

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Public health emergency. The second item to report is regarding.

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The mayor's proposal, beginning of this year, the local income tax council, of which the bloomington common council is a part.

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Consider a change to the local income tax rate mayor hamilton mentioned that.

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Earlier this evening, in the context of the state of the city address in the.

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City's case, this change was proposed in order to support a dedicated.

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Sustainability investment fund with the idea that such a fund would prioritize.

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Equitable and just investments in the community, with goals of lowering the.

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Day-To-Day costs of our most vulnerable residents, while also reducing pollution.

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And our carbon footprint and addressing worsening climate local climate impacts.

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Like flooding and extreme heat, the climate action resilience committee is.

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The council committee that took up this proposal and had begun to hold public meetings on the topic, along with reaching out to other members of the.

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Local income tax council, however, amid the current pandemic and public health.

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Crisis, we feel that it's not appropriate at this time to recommend any change to.

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The local income tax rate, of course this does not mean that the global climate.

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Crisis is any less pressing or that we are taking it any less seriously.

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We had already gathered a lot of useful feedback from members of the public which serves to complement the sustainability, work and community.

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Outreach and community visioning that the city has been undertaking for many.

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Years now, indeed, as part of that ongoing work, the.

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City is developing a climate vulnerability, assessment and action plan.

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This year and in time, conversations on the topic of sustainability will.

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Continue with community members and our colleagues in different areas of local.

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Government, but I wanted to clarify where we stand on that right now as mayor.

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Hamilton said earlier this evening, the current public health emergency is front.

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And center for all of us right now taking care of our community as we.

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Weather this pandemic together. So I just wanted to report on those two items and.

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That is it from me. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. clarity. Are there any final.

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Questions or comments marella had one for miss coda. Please was I.

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Wanted to know if we had an adequate supply of ppe particularly masks right.

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Now for health care workers and nursing staff at the hospital miss kabul, are you.

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Still there um can you hear me.

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Yes, go ahead. Okay, I was getting a little. I wasn't sure.

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Right now the hospitals are iu. Health has a central place and inventory. So I I.

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Know that they are watching it very closely so that they can disperse ppe.

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Where it needs to go, as I said, we have other places notifying us and we kind of.

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Feed that up the the channel to the state so that if we need ppe as a.

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Community that we can get that we do have guidelines about where it goes so.

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What we get and honestly I don't expect it to necessarily be a lot, but when we.

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Get that then we'll have to disperse it following those guidelines.

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Well, could you could you comment on or is nursing staff safe when dealing with.

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Kovat 19 patients at the hospital do they have adequate masks if that's at.

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This time, as far as I know that they do yes, okay, thank you.

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Cause we're smith question. Yes, if I thank you, miss caudill for your report.

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And your information, the question I wanted to ask: what's: do we have a best.

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Estimate on the number of beds that we do have in our two hospitals in this.

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Area that might be able to treat someone with kovat 19. We do. I have to plead a.

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Little bit that I don't have that with me right now to give you the hospital.

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Certainly again, they've got plans for what they can expand within their.

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Hospital setting what what they might be able to move among their hospitals- and I.

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Know that they're working on plans for what, if we needed to expand this into.

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Other locations, so I don't have an exact number for you tonight, but yes, those.

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Numbers do exist and are being monitored. Thank you. Mr. mayor.

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I'm I just add, and thank you, miss caudill.

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For all of that information, that's very helpful, appreciate you being here. I know.

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That the hospital, which has a little over 200 total beds, I think and then.

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Mineral hospital- I'm I don't know their count offhand, but one of the things.

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They're doing is significantly changing their discharge procedures. You know.

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They've also stopped elective surgeries and other things and they're changing.

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Their discharge procedures to try to accelerate the availability of their.

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Beds as needed, using collaborative work with other places where they can.

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Discharge patients who don't need the hospital level coverage or can get a.

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Different rehab place and all that so they're they're they're very much trying.

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To maximize that, but you know I wouldn't we're also working very closely together.

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Indiana university and thus governments and in the health system to look at if.

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We need facilities to increase beds. Where would they go? I know ivy tech is.

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Working closely and has already offered that with the health iu health hospital.

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We're in touch with indiana university there's a there's, obviously, a lot of.

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Empty space, that's not being used right now that could be stood up for the surge.

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That we see in other communities and there's a lot of planning going on for.

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Thank you. Thank you. Any final questions from council members.

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Mr. rallo did you have any other follow-up reporting just briefly, I.

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Wanted to mention that, as well as the city continuity of city government,.

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Meetings which I have to say, I've been very impressed with the administration.

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The mayor and and department heads, I think, they've made a lot of a lot of.

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Progress in the past weeks- and I wanted to mention that this ceo cg is also.

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Developing subgroups to determine our needs and actions subsequently, if this.

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Continues for months, three months, six months a year in the future, I'm on a.

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Continuity of city government supply chain.

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And I just wanted to mention what that was. It's caused of chief, more chief d.

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Cough director of utilities of cows and director of bloomington transportation.

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Loom a and it director rick dietz and the purpose of the group is to ensure.

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That operations of our more critical needs sitting community in the event of.

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Material shortages due to supply chain disruption, so things like disruption of.

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Manufacturing or transportation disruption, economic fight, financial.

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Sector dislocation and things like that that we have those types of materials.

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Regardless, so those sort of operations include things, of course, like fire and.

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And and police public safety, sanitation, water treatment in delivery, internet.

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Cellular communications, internal communications, public transportation and.

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So forth, so the focus right now is directed to ensuring that we have those.

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Reserves in place for public safety vehicles, for instance, feel for them fuel.

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For backup generators in the event of a grid outage adequate store of chemicals.

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For water treatment stores, parts for vehicle repair or for materials for main.

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Breaks for utilities, backup, communications and and the you know, ppe.

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For first responders, so the initial of the group's initial.

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Meeting was just this past monday and we, which is march 23rd, we developed a list.

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Of questions to answer before our next meeting to determine what actions we.

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Need to take to respond to possible shortages, so we've developed those.

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Questions and I'll be sending them to the council and we'll be getting answers.

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In the next few days, so that we can determine where we are in terms of.

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Building that kind of resiliency, with with regard to two critical, critical.

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Needs so that's it all! I have to offer on that at this.

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Point thank council varela with that we're going to close this discussion. I.

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Want to thank commissioner caudill and mayor hamilton, I don't think any of us.

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Envy you your jobs right now. We greatly appreciate the information you've given.

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Us tonight- and we hope you will stay in touch with the council as we try to pick.

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Up where we left off within the context of the emergency, thank you both again.

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Thanks a lot, thank you. Thank you. We're gonna move on now to the next item on.

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The agenda, which is legislation for first reading, if the problem with jerry.

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And would please wait counsel for sandberg you had a if there could be.

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Another council report, could I please report on jack hopkins for just a moment.

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Oh I'm so sorry I forgot to yes before we go to first reading again, I think the.

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Mayor and the commissioner carl can go but miss sandberg. If you would please.

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Give us an update on the hopkins. Thank you, of course, the jack hopkins.

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Organizing committee met when we still could meet, but we put out a press.

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Release today we are going to be extending the march 30th deadline to.

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Monday april 3rd april 13th, rather I'm sorry because a lot of the social.

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Service agencies in our community that are responding to the pandemic are.

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Certainly scrambling we want them to have every opportunity to submit a.

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Really, quality grant that's going to meet their needs going forward, as we all.

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Know the jack hopkins fund has about three hundred and eleven thousand.

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Dollars in order to allocate this year, and so we want to make sure that all of.

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Our nonprofits have ample time to to get their applications in. We are going to.

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Vet those applications, obviously in a different way than we normally have.

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We'll be doing that virtually and online, but we did want to people know that we.

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Are going to strive very variant ly to stay on the schedule and make sure that.

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We have allocations ready by the june 17th date that was already on the.

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Schedule, but we do want to let agencies know they have a little bit more time.

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With regard to the jack hopkins committee, we have always had the.

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Opportunity to take a look at the applications and prioritize emergency.

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Services such as food shelter, healthcare, so that will continue to be the case.

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There's no need to change our criteria, but we do want to note that we will.

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Recognize pressing needs for opportun on bridge funding as well.

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The relief or reimbursement expenses for general operating funding will be.

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Considered very carefully by the members of the committee: again, we are striving.

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To keep on the schedule to make sure we can get these allocations out as soon as.

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Possible, we will all be operating under these conditions, we'll all have to learn.

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How to do this by zoom, but the the committee is all on board, at least by by.

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Way of our initial meeting to get all this organized, so we were not able to.

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Have the technical meeting for the agencies, but stephen lucas did prepare.

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And excellent, I believe it's a youtube that is posted on the jack hopkins site.

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On our website that would have gone over the information anybody would have.

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Needed to get out of that technical assistance meeting so again keep your.

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Eyes on the website keep your eye open for further notice on how the jack.

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Hopkins meetings will be conducted from this point on, but rest assured, we know.

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We are, we have available a company that will be extremely useful in these very.

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Unusual and unsettling times, thank you. Thank you. Can't super sandberg. Can you.

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Please briefly say the members of the committee so that anyone who wants to.

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Reach out to them can absolutely we have two members of the public serving this.

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Year that are mark fraley and tim mayor and, in addition to those community.

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Members myself as chair soos campbell, laurie, matt, flay, hardy and ron smith, did.

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I leave anybody out, kate, that's everybody. There are only four, so it.

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Should be five, there are four council members in addition to the two community.

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Member do all we can last question is: is there.

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Any chance that the committee might be able to decide sooner than mid-june if.

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They see fit it's very difficult because again, if we're going to be extending the.

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Time for the agencies that's going to lessen the time our staff has to put.

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Together the packets to put together the information that the committee is going.

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To need to vet these applications and so we're going to do the best we can. We.

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Have some new staff who have never done jack hopkins before, but we definitely.

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Want to be urgent in this and again getting these dollars out is going to be.

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Of the utmost importance to all of us, so we're going to do our best, but the the.

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Middle part of the schedule is is a little bit upper discussion at this.

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Point well on behalf of the council. I just want to say we are appreciative of.

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Your work and godspeed: let's go now to legislation for first.

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Reading, madame parliamentarian, yes, I moved that ordinance 2005 be introduced.

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And read by the clerk by title and synopsis: only ii have a motion in a.

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Second, all in favor, please signify by saying aye opposed, say, nay, well, the.

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Clerk, please read ordinance 2005 an ordinance authorizing the refunding of.

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Certain outstanding waterworks revenue, bonds of the city authorizing the.

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Issuance of the city of bloomington indiana water works, revenue refunding.

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Bonds of 2020 to provide funds for such refunding and the payment of the cost.

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Thereof and addressing other matters connected therewith, the synopsis is as.

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Follows this ordinance authorizes the city of bloomington to issue its.

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Waterworks revenue refunding bonds of 2020 in one or more series in the.

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Aggregate principal amount not to exceed 40 $2,750,000, the to 2020 bonds will be.

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Issued to refund the city's currently outstanding waterworks revenue, bonds of.

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2000 series: a waterworks revenue, bonds of 2003 series, a waterworks revenue.

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Bonds of 2003 series b, waterworks revenue, bonds with 2001.

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Serious, a and waterworks revenue, bonds of 2011 series b, all of the purpose of.

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Obtaining lower interest cause and a reduction of debt service payments on.

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Such outstanding bonds, thereby achieving significant savings for the city, thank.

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You we now move to legislation for a second reading. I think that in this case, madame parliamentarian, you've moved title only.

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Move that ordinance 2005, he introduced an red bike clerk by title. Only.

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Rankin motion in a second all in favor, say aye.

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Opposed say, nay, with a clerk, please read permits 2005 an ordinance authorizing.

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The refunding of certain outstanding water works revenue, bonds with the city.

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Authorizing the issuance of the city of bloomington indiana water works revenue.

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Refunding bonds for 2020 to provide funds for such refunding and the payment.

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Of the cost thereof and addressing other matters connected therewith in order for.

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This to even be considered, it requires unanimous consent to consider we're by.

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Reading it now words because something could have been considered in a single night if there's not unanimous consent that we must refer to committee. If.

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There's gems consent it will take a two-thirds vote. We need a motion to that.

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End I move that the council introduce and consider ordinance 2005 for adoption.

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At the same meeting and on the same night, it is introduced. Second, second,.

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This is the motion, is debatable and amendable again requires unanimous.

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Consent are there any questions or comments on the motion to consider.

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Ordinance 2005 the same ad. It was introduced.

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See all the question question called well the clerk. Please call the roll on.

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The motion to consider or does 2005 the same meeting on the same night.

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This requires unanimous consent. Yes, councilmember sims, yes, boland. Yes, few.

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Months me: yes, clarity! Yes, smith! Yes, sandburg! Yes,.

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Rallo, yes, skin burglary, yes, rosenberger yeah! Thank you.

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A vote is unanimous. Go ahead. I move that horn is 2005, be adopted. Second, second,.

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Okay, this is, I guess, why did the prior call prematurely this debatable amenable.

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Requires to the majority to pass we'll go now to presentation, ordinance, 22b.

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I'll sing, I believe, you're up mr. kelson, can you are you there? I think I do you.

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See him frozen it's his sound on mr. lucas. I've missed his videos a little.

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It's lagging a bit, I don't know if it's the number of folks at the meeting or an.

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Internet connection, but he should be he's, got audio and video enabled I can.

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Turn video. uh We can hear you now mr. kelson go ahead, turn it back on he's.

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Disappeared there he is mr. kelson, please go ahead, give it a second give. It.

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A second: this is the new reality we're living in everybody. Mr. kelson, can you.

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Is having a lot of problems I can jump in, he was going to introduce the team.

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I'd be happy. Mr. ellison hang tight, let's hear from mr. underwood mr.

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Underwood, please go ahead good evening, council members coming to you from a.

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Bunker underwood, over on the east side, happy to bring some good news tonight.

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Want to introduce our group, of course, director of utilities, vic ellison,.

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Director of finance with utilities floor cut it myself, jeff underwood controller.

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For the city bruce donaldson, with barnes of thornburg, who is our counsel on this.

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And buzz crone with auto cronin associates, who is our financial advisors.

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I'm going to give you a synopsis and then turn it over to buzz and he can add.

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Additional information for you- essentially, this is refinancing for of.

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Utilities, state revolving fund outstanding bonds into one. This will do.

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A number of things one, the most important- is about 2.4 million dollars.

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In present value savings to the utilities and in addition to that, it.

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Helps the utilities with their ongoing debt service payments, where there were.

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Going to be some balloon payments that was going to be disruptive to the.

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Payment process and their revenue stream, so one of the offshoots of the virus, is.

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That the bond markets are have turned very favorable to municipalities. We.

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Began looking at one or two issues and due to the markets and the demand for.

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The bonds were able to bump that up to four time is of the essence. We would.

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Like to get to market with us as quickly as possible,.

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To take advantage of these great rates, steps be taken would be if your approval.

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Night and then we hope that you'll do that we would move to the rating agency.

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Stage working with standards and poor to get a rating on it, we believe it will.

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Get rated very high due to the nature of both the financials of the city and.

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Utilities department and the nature of the refunding once we have that, then we.

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Would move quickly to market in that, so with that, I will turn it over to buzz.

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And- and he can provide some additional information- and we all are here to.

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Answer questions. Thank you very well put those different yeah.

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Can everybody hear me okay, loud and clear.

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Well, jeff did a very excellent job. I'll say there are. There are four old srf.

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Bonds that would get bundled into one tax-exempt bond issue and then the 2011.

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B, bonds- those are the that's the largest one. We would propose to the taxable.

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Rates are so close to the tax exempt rates right now that we could do an.

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Advanced refunding on a taxable basis and produce about a half, a million.

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Dollars more savings and what was being projected last fall when we, I don't know.

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If you would call when we did the wastewater refunding, we talked about.

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Coming back with with the water refunding as well, and then the rates got.

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A little bit fuzzy there at the end of the year, but all of a sudden, the bottom.

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Dropped out about three weeks ago, and we decided where we need to get this.

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Authorized so that we're in a position to move quickly when, when things are.

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Just right- and I did confirm with our placement agent today- that while the.

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Markets volatile, you know, we still got. The treasury rates are the lowest.

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They've been, and you know I don't- I don't know how many years he said, but.

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Maybe almost ever, but so he felt comfortable with those the.

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Illustration that we sent out in the last week, I think everybody probably had.

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Had received that so the the restructuring a little bit to level out.

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Those payments that jeff alluded to will actually improve the overall debt.

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Service coverage ratios by about ten percent, the maximum annual debt service.

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And the new bonds will be over half a million dollars less than the maximum.

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Debt service on the old bond, so that was sort of the second piece of of the goals.

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That jeff had sent out trying to level out those some of those balloon bond.

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Payments, so with that, I think jeff covered everything quite quite well, but.

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We'd be glad to take questions from council before we do. Mr. kelson, are you.

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Able to weigh in at all no he seemed to come in better when he turned off the.

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Video for that motor off your video mr. kelson go ahead. Apologize for the poor.

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Connection, we can hear you at least now.

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Go ahead, mr. kelson. Unfortunately, his connection is still poor. With that.

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What's that we're just mr. donaldson, did you have anything to say before we go to.

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Questions I would only say that your utility service board and mr. kelson was.

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Probably going to report this good adopt resolution recommending this to the.

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Council as well, thank you with that. We go now to questions from members. Are.

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There any questions for ordinance, 2005, councilor, flaherty, sorry, actually.

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Another technical suggest and wondered if mr. krabs.

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The weigh-in, perhaps mr. kelson, can hang up and dial in via phone instead of.

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Connecting via he's internet connection, if we wanted to pursue that option,.

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That's one dimension direct mr. kelson mr. krebs. Make that happen. Thank you are.

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There questions on the ordinance as presented counselor people on smith's.

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Followed by councilman rallo, yes, I had a question about the what so there are.

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There are five bonds that are being refinanced and, as mr. kron said, four of.

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Them will be bundled together, the smaller ones and then the 2011 series b.

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Bond will be separate and it will be taxable. So why is that? One taxable and.

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The others are not mr. donaldson, yes, the 2011 b bonds are not. We can't. We can't.

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Pay them off until I believe 2021, and so we have to do what's called an advanced.

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Refunding meaning we we issued the bonds today at these low rates we put the.

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Money in an escrow and then we paid them off when when we can pay them off the.

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Problem is that when the congress did the tax reform act in at the end of 2017,.

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It eliminated our ability to do what these were called advanced refunding. It.

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Eliminated our ability to do advanced, refunding zhan a tax except basis, so we.

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Have to do them on a taxable basis, fortunately, as buzz indicated taxable.

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Rates are very, very low as well, which means we can still do it very.

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Economically, I would just note that congress is looking as part of.

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Everything it's looking at right now at restoring our ability to do advanced.

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Refunding zana taxing that basis, but it has not done so at this point and thank.

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You councilmember oh, go ahead, a follow up question! Yes, go ahead! Just for white.

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Person, like my so when you say taxable that means the.

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People who invest in that bond, the proceeds that they get are taxable is.

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That what that means, the interest that's paid- would be included in their taxable.

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Income right: okay, that's what I thought. Thank you, constable rallo yeah, my.

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Question is so I understand this is an optimal time to refinance, but I wondered.

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If rates could fall further well, that's I wish I had a crystal ball. Councilman.

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The we know that they're as low as as I've ever seen in my 40-year career here.

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And the spread between the the taxable yield and the non-taxable yield is, is.

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Less than 40 basis points and I think the the weighted average maturity of the.

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Before tax-exempt, deals is only about 3.2 years so and the yield on those is.

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About one point, this is the yield to the investor. I'm talking about the yield is.

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About one point, four: four percent: when we throw in the yield on the taxable.

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Deal our weighted average maturities quite a bit longer. It's about five point.

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Five and a half years instead of the three point two years so not quite twice,.

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As twice as much, but you would expect a higher yield on a longer weighted.

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Average maturity, and without even factoring that in were within about 40.

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Basis points of the taxable and tax-exempt yields so rates would have to.

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And we can't predict what the rates are going to do. You know in a year from now.

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Or a year and a half from now, but we know that we can lock in savings of.

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Roughly on that one particular deal, the net present value savings were in.

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The most recent illustration from the underwriters about 2.1 million on on the.

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Taxable, that's refinancing the tax exempt ones.

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With the taxable one because we'd be doing an advanced refunding and that's.

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Still, you know we looked at this last about six months of going and considered.

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Doing it with savings in the range of you know, 1.6 1.7 million, so obviously.

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We've picked up quite a bit of momentum, if you will, since since that time, with.

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The rates dropping where they are right now we could, it looks like we'd, be in.

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The 2.1 million dollar range, I'm just that one large taxable deal the for.

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Tax-Exempt their they have a lot shorter term. So the and the amounts of principal.

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Amounts are smaller, but there's about a quarter of a million dollars that we can.

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Pick up by consolidating all those as well so you're, eliminating 5 bond issues.

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With 2 and in leveling out, the other part of it is leveling out those.

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Payments we've got opportunity to to level out those combined annual debt.

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Service payments, which you always look at when you're looking at debt service,.

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Coverage ratios you're, looking at the maximum annual year debt service.

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Requirement and with this new structure, that's on the table, we're reducing that.

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By over half a million dollars about 560, some thousand dollars, which is about a.

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10 percent improvement in the cover the debt coverage ratio, which helps with our.

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Bond rating and so forth- and I guess another side benefit- you don't have to.

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Worry about arbitrage. We don't have arbitrage situation here anyway, but.

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As a taxable bond, you don't have to worry about arbitrage, yield restrictions.

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And the irs thank you. That was a very thorough explanation. I wondered if mr.

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Underwood, can you have anything to add no, not this time. Okay,.

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Thank you further question that ordinance 2005. If that I have one strand.

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Err, wood and I guess to everyone who's presenting. Is there a reason why we.

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Don't reconsider the city's entire bond portfolio for refinancing, considering.

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The historic low of interest rates- yes, as was alluded to by bruce donaldson.

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With the 2017 tax change, they eliminated the ability of local units of government.

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To advance refund debt, or I can guarantee you there would have been a.

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Lot more issues for you to consider tonight, but we still have hope that they.

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May rescind that prohibition? Yes, there's been a lot of pressure on because it was.

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A wonderful tool for municipalities to use to lower their debt service and why.

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They would take that away as it's beyond me good to know.

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Any further questions on ordinance, 2005, kotsenburg people on smith yeah. I just.

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Have a small technical question: the ordinance refers to a registrar and.

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Paying agent that may be employed or it might, the process might be handled by.

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Our controller is, which method are we using paying agent and register, and you.

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Say that with a smile arkansas we would be, we would need more staff to take care.

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Of that that particular job, so we always farm those out and is that something.

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That bruce donaldson's firm would handle, or is that a different type of.

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Consultant who would handle that? Well, it's a part of between bruce and buzz. We.

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Choose from a kind of a pot of folks that are.

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Out there to do these services and we we try to get the best deal out of them. So.

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Yeah and it would be a bank, yes, that has a trust department. Oh I see okay, so it.

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Wouldn't be either of the gentlemen who are here tonight? No, no, but they would.

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Maybe help you find the right bank, yes got it! Okay, if there are no further.

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Question so I'm pulling my colleagues then we're gonna go now to public.

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Comment, mr. lucas, this is where you come in. If there has is there anyone who.

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Would like to address the council on ordinance 2005, who is attending via zoom.

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If so, you should is the instruction to raise hands or to yes is to raise.

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There's a function in zoom to raise your hand to be acknowledged if you'd like to.

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Speak this is your chance. You will allot three minutes per speaker. I'll also say.

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That sending a chat is also acceptable. That chat should just be visible by the.

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Meeting hosts, so I'm looking through the the participants now no one is.

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Immediately I'll open the floor for 30 seconds, so if there's anyone who would.

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Like to address the council ordinance 25 2005, please raise your hand and zoom or.

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Make a comment in chat, which will be seen by mr. lucas, who is hosting the.

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Meeting another 15 seconds.

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And seeing no requests for public comment we'll come back to the council.

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For debate is there any final comment on ordinance 2005, I see no hands from.

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Council members so I'll entertain a motion call the question.

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Thank you, okay. The question has been called and seconded. Is there any.

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Objection to the calling of the question: if not, will the clerk please call the.

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Roll again, this requires a two-thirds majority to pass and the evening it was.

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Introduced miss mr. bolden. Will you please call the roll.

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That's been appalling, yes, piemonte smith. Yes,.

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Clarity, yes, smith. Yes, sandburg, yes, rolla! Yes, skin valerie, yeah, I'm sorry! I didn't.

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Hear that can you repeat that for me thank you, rosenberger yep and since yes,.

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Thank you. That is a 9-0 vote. The ordinance is.

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Approved unanimously mr. donaldson mr. krown, mr. underwood and mr. kelson.

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Wherever you are, thank you all for here few patients and we appreciate your.

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Presence here tonight, we'd like to thank the council for entertaining our request.

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To do it all in one night we know that's unusual, but thank you so much. We thought.

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It was essential, thank you without me now going to the next. The next item on.

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The agenda with a parliamentarian, please read yes, mr. president, I moved that.

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Resolution 2005 be introduced in read by the clerk by title and synopsis only.

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Second motion in a second all in favor, please signify by saying aye.

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Opposed say, nay, well the clerk please read resolution 2005 a resolution from.

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The common council requesting the food and beverage tax advisory commission to.

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Make a recommendation for the expenditure of food and beverage tax.

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Revenues the synopsis is as follows. This resolution is a request from the common.

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Council for the food and beverage tax advisory commission to recommend.

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Expenditures of food and beverage tax revenues toward the support of food and.

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Beverage service or tourism related establishments and their employees.

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Within the city of bloomington, thank you, mr. president, I move that resolution.

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2005 be adopted second motion. A second resolutions do not require two readings.

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So they can be adopted in the same night that they are introduced here to present.

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The who, well, I guess, I'm the one who asked for this, so maybe I should be.

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Presenting as the mr. lucas well, I also want to note that we've got a few.

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Members of the administration on the meeting corporation counsel, philippa.

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Guthrie controller jeff, underwood, director of economic and sustainable.

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Development outs out- I think those folks are here to speak to the resolution, but.

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An introduction, I think by you a good place to start.

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Yes, I forgot myself, I am also the chair of the food and beverage tax advisory.

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Commission, which we have effectually begun to call fabtech and the fabtech.

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Met yesterday in an emergency session to consider the county commissioners.

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Resolution asking for endorsement of $200,000 from their portion of revenues.

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From the food and beverage tax, the fat tax, you might say, and the commissioners.

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The the the fat tech members approved it and that allows the.

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Commissioners, to appropriate those funds again for us to do something similar.

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Requires us to first pass resolution asking the fabtech to recommend that the.

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Council use dollars and then we have to come back and bring forward an.

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Appropriation ordinance to appropriate those dollars before we can do that.

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We have to go to the fabtech and that's what this resolution is for, and this is.

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In response to a petition going around from members of the service industry,.

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Locally, both employees and employers asking for assistance of relief from the.

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Emergency that has sprung from the koba 19 pandemic. With that I'd like to invite.

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Whoever for the administration would like to address this issue first, to go.

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Ahead, who will who will take you first mr. crowley, mr. underwood I'll defer to.

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Mr. crowley kick off hey mr. crowley, if you would.

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Can you hear me okay? Yes, it's coming in loud and clear, okay,.

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Thanks so thanks to all of you, we're keeping.

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The business of government going like this very important time and and an.

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Actually, discussion also, I wanted to acknowledge it councils role relative to.

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Protecting and ensuring or are spent with fiscal responsibility, and so what I.

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Want to talk a little bit about very briefly is: is this question of the both.

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The short term and the long term economic impact that is evident in.

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Blooming all right and will likely become more acute here over the next.

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Couple of weeks, if not months and what we're doing as a group, so the mayor on.

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Monday asked to formalize the activities that already started in the community.

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Having to do with economic stabilization and planning, and really planning for.

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Recovery over the long-term, so we pulled a group together that had been already.

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Meeting but that that is now really much more focus. The core group involves the.

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Billington economic development, corporation dimensional inc, our.

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Department, which is the city's department of economic development and.

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Cdfi friendly bloomington and we pull together and our task our immediate task.

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Is to develop a very quick policy paper for mayor hamilton that lays out what.

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Our short-term objectives would be and then also lays out, our path to.

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Developing longer-term objectives, so, as you know, there's a lot going on right.

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Now, in terms of external stimulus potential and so we're keeping a very.

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Close eye on that, but basically the the tasks that we have as a group is as.

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Follows number one to quantify the local economic need that has been caused by.

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Kovat 19, so what is the impact and we're doing that in two ways: we're doing it.

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From a bottoms-up perspective, so a lot of surveys and research and and asking.

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For information from groups in town and businesses and organizations in town and.

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That should, I should specify, includes not only businesses but also arts.

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Organizations and and then and also do a top-down view of that meaning leveraging.

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The iprc, which is the business resource center at indiana university, a national.

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And very strong data analysis function to help us define the need that we might.

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Be able to understand from the top down so it statewide data, citywide data and.

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And and then looking at those two and see where they meet so that's.

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Essentially, the question that we're looking at right now from a data.

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Perspective is what what do we, what do we need and and then there's a timing.

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Issue? Which is what do we need when? Because, for example, anecdotally, were.

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Understanding that the sba loan structures might take 8 to 12 weeks, it.

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So you know that that ya relief point but before that hits there might be a.

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Serious period that timing much more important, so we're looking at at the the.

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Dollar amounts and the timing of when need may be necessary. The second thing.

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That we're doing is looking at sources of funding, so the food and beverage tax.

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Is is one, and we appreciate you considering that this evening there are.

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Some others that you know we have looked at they're, probably not as substantial.

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But they could be more quick to market, even if they're in smaller increments.

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But we're looking across the landscape of what what sources might be available.

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It you know, and and what kind of restrictions might exist on those right.

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Now, most importantly, I think is: we are also looking at models around the.

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Country as well as models that we can build the two who execute and implement.

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Any program that we might build to be able to deliver the support from a local.

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Perspective that we that we feel is would be important to deliver. So what we.

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Want to do is make sure that we have in place by the time we need it.

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Administering function that has expertise and capacity that can execute.

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A program according to the service level and speed that we need it to execute so.

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We're looking at you know various options there and to give you some.

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Examples one could be, for example, an advisory group of local commercial.

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Lending talent that we would have in town, which has already.

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Presented itself so that that might be one option- and these are not mutually.

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Exclusive week we could also look at the cdfi industry, which, which is also a.

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Group, that's already in place. They have existing products so that that might be.

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Another channel, so there a variety in fact one of them might be even a.

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Microlending, academic tracted, I you there are a lot of kelli school students.

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Who were supposed to be doing other projects? And, and so you know, we're not.

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Sure exactly how that's gonna play itself out, but but that, but rest assured.

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That we are absolutely focused on making sure that whatever gets built whatever.

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Funding is available on it could be a variety of sources that funding is put.

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Through a system that has both capacity and expertise that can deliver, it.

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Effectively and then finally we're looking at measurements so we're looking.

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At what kind of measurements do we need to put in place up front to understand.

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And and and validate the investment and other processes are undertaking and then.

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Also, what kind of reporting should we be readying ourselves for you all and to.

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Any other to the public and and and any other body that that would rightfully.

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Expect to have reporting, so we have a lot of questions that are unanswered.

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Right now, those questions you know, I'm just going to throw out some examples.

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Are we talking about in all cases, loans? Are we talking about.

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Some combination of loans and perhaps a you know at some much smaller percentage.

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Of rates, what does the loan structure look like? You know what our eligibility.

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Requirements that we look for so, for example, you know argot, it would be.

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Define business size would we include individuals because, as you might know,.

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There are sort of individual contractors out there that are, you know whose.

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Business that as well so there just a variety of different questions that were.

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We're tackling right now, as part of this preliminary recommendation, that.

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We're putting together the key that I would I would really underscore is first.

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Of all the group that it's is brought together to look at these questions is.

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Working very well together, it represents membership of all sizes of the community.

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In terms of organizations they, the chamber has a lot of the retail and a.

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Lot of the restaurants and a lot of the you know that sort of on-the-ground.

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Membership and the edc also has membership, but they also have membership.

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That's focused on the traded sectors, so those sectors that are making their.

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Money outside of the community and bringing it in here, and so you know it's.

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A group that's hard at work again. Our objective is to deliver to the mayor by.

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Tomorrow, night, a initial policy document for review and and then to go from there.

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As we really figure this out so I'll, stop there jephta and anything that he.

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Might want to happen and certainly were willing and able to answer any questions.

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You might have nothing further, but just answer happy to answer any questions.

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That council might have very good. Thank you.

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With that I'll open the floor to questions from council members of.

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Council percent hollowed by customer rallo. Thank you.

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And I believe this is for mr. crowley or jeff from whoever. But mr. crowley was.

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Talking about fat tax revenue, but he also said there were smaller, less.

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Sustainable revenue or sources of funding- and I was wondering, is he.

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Prepared to give us examples of what those other revenue sources may be, or.

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Funding sources could be yeah. I can give you an example, and you know this is by.

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No means guaranteed, it takes a certain vote from property. In this case, the.

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Board but the you know, one source of potential funding could be the.

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Bloomington enterprise association. Yes, they are you.

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Know it is a it's a semi governmental body, so there's a you know a board as.

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You know, and- and we are we are looking at that as a potential- it would require.

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Them to agree- and I should note the be we a the urban enterprise association- is.

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Already very heavily involved in cdfi friendly bloomington. They were one of.

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Two very significant public- and you know, contributors to the investment fund.

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There so, whether we go to them directly or whether we leverage some of the city.

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Of bloomington funding, which they in part made available.

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You know the va could be could have a role now. One thing I should note is that.

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The bu ea has a you, know a physical boundary as defined by its you know. It's.

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Its original chopper, so you know we have to pay attention to that. It's we're.

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Thinking about a group like that to help with any kind of funding support, thank.

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You are, there are other examples, I'm sorry. Mr. president, yes, I was just.

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Wondering I know that's one example and I know it's early but oh that's a good.

K

Example, so thank you for sharing that mr. rollo, I think this is for mr.

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Underwood, I think this is an important legislation to help with bridge funding.

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For local businesses, but is there any risk in compromising funding support at.

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Federal or state one of the things: yes, what are the things that you we've tried.

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To be is both moving forward while at the same time being cautious, because we.

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There we could expend funds and find out that those aren't eligible for.

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Reimbursement down the road, but alex's group is very well well that we're very.

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Well, aware of that, as we are so we're being cautious but moving as.

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Quickly, as we can at least have programs set up to allow the federal and state.

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Packages to flow down and obviously you end up playing a little bit of a waiting.

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Game because you know the feds acts first and then the state's waiting for.

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Them to see okay, I'm can we supplement or do we have to administer then we're.

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Waiting for them and it slows down so there's a little bit of caution. There.

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But we want to be able to strike as soon as we have those answers. Mr. carlin do.

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You have anything to him. Well, I would say a couple thing as mr.

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Underwood said the we are paying very close attention to external stimulus.

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Money and and how that may or may not affect what we're doing you know they're.

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Actually, sort of a reverse situation where we're we're sba money could.

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Potentially payback short-term loans that have been made so that could it so.

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That that would be a case where you have external money being able to kick local.

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Money back into the pot for redeployment, so you know there are there functions.

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That are gonna happen both ways. I should say that you know if you just look at.

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The at the kind of at a particular organization organization, a company, a.

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Their their daisy chain should be their current traditional banking loan. That is.

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The the first place they should turn well, the first actually, the first thing.

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They should do is they should manage their expenses and really optimize their.

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In pencil expense structure, but once they've done that they, you know.

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Traditional banking sector is the first line of defense for them, and they should be looking at that. Second line of defense actually is the whole cdfi.

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Industry that are that's really designed to to to play on the traditional banking.

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And then and then local stimulus like ours serve to back backstop. That's that.

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As well now we don't and then we don't. We don't.

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Want to compete certainly with our local banking, because I think that's the most.

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Efficient effective way to take care of this.

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Having said that, you know if, if we are picking up fast, you know opportunities.

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For support, we will be naturally doing so and probably a higher rate of risk.

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Than some of the more traditional bank loans might that might be issued, so I.

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Just make sure that we are going go into this with our eyes open that we do have.

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A pretty high risk likelihood, and so we are aware of that as we go and and think.

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About ways to administer the programs, you say more about that alex. What is it.

C

Can you explain that a little bit sure? Well, if you're, you know, if you have.

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Really strong financials and you have your act together. You know chances are.

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You've you've started already and perhaps pursued and receives even you.

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Know traditional banking product that can help you, through whatever challenges.

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You're going through those will not be available to you know to needs that may.

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Not have as much financial strength now the sba fits into the picture. So the sba.

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Can have back to to fill in some of those gaps, but as you sort of get out, if.

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You're not qualifying for any of those things that that are that are ahead of.

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Support that we might bring to bear, then by definition, you're gonna, you're gonna.

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Have a weak, weak or financial posture, potentially or situation, and so you know.

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I should it's very much worth looking at those companies, because sometimes they.

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Just don't have you know some of the traditional banking requirement.

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Financials and so the needs may very well be worth looking very closely at.

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And helping out, but it's just doing so at a higher risk level, if I might just.

A

Throw in here briefly that my intent here was to try to expedite as quickly.

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As possible councils consideration of a potential use of the food beverage tax.

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Fun so, but there is time between, if, if council adopts it tonight, this.

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Resolution that simply allows the fab tak to me. We've scheduled another.

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Emergency meeting for friday at 5 p.m. where they'll consider this resolution.

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That they're expecting, but at the same time I lost me preparing or asking to.

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Have prepared an appropriation ordinance to begin using funds that are approved.

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By the fab, tech and the earliest, I can imagine that coming forward is next.

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Wednesday april 1st, and while we could probably adopt it that night, I think.

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It'd be better if we discussed it that night, it could is going to take some.

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Time to do what mr. crowley has been saying and that we have a meeting.

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Excuse me scheduled for april 7th, the tuesday, where we could adopt the.

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Appropriation ordinance, so just so, people have a sense of the timetable. I.

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Have in mind mr. crowley, I guess I would ask you briefly if you find that timetable to be too fast or too slow. Well, I really.

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Appreciate the fact, first of all that you're pushing this as quickly as you can, and we really feel that you know the faster we can get it done the better. So.

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I think, while it's a lot of money and it's taxpayer money and and we have to.

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Be really disciplined about how we go about doing it. Having said that, there.

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Are you know the house is on fire right now, so we we do want to make sure that.

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We move as quickly as possible, which is why we're also looking at even if it's.

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Much smaller increments are there other funding sources that might even get us.

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Going while we do a much more rigorous.

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Evaluative process relative to this larger sum of money that you're.

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Proposing in the resolution well, I think we may learn a lot in a week like I said.

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It's a long time in politics. Mr. underwood, we just have to follow up as.

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Well, on many of the requirements have been weighed during this emergency, but.

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One of the things that we have to double check on is the advertisement of an additional appropriation. The normal standard is, it has to be advertised 10.

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Days in advance of the public hearing of the appropriation.

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So we were trying to follow up on that very quickly to find out that may throw.

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A wrench on the timing, if that is not been waived,.

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So april, 7th really is the absolute earliest. We can imagine taking final.

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Action on an appropriation ordinance is that right.

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As soon as long as we can get, the advertisement in with the ht within 10.

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Days so it is published ten days before that, yes, customers, campbell area as the.

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Chair of the sustainable development committee you've been working with the.

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Economic assailable development department: do you have a question or an.

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Observation at this point a couple of questions primarily- and let me add my.

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Thanks as well and watch the economic and sustainable department work at this.

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For the last are related, and I am in awe just how how much time and energy you've.

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Invested in so thank you alex mr. crowley. I would be interested in.

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Your back as currently written this resolution, the city used such funds to.

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Support learning beverage establishments, other businesses that promote tourism.

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And employees of such establishments and businesses in the city of blue one of.

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The things about cove in nineteen is, it seems to affect a lot of businesses that.

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Don't necessarily fall in that category, so I'm thinking about barber shops or a.

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Clothing, boutique that relies heavily on students being present or a small local.

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Pharmacy or something like that, what do we think about that? The language that's.

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Currently written, have you gotten feedback from the bbc or the chamber on.

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How those segments are being impacted yeah, so we've thanks. That's a good.

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Question we've we've discussed it and, and it we've in fact discusses this.

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Afternoon, I think I think it would be our recommendation to you if, if at all.

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Possible and I and and I recognize again the importance of being fiscally.

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Responsible, so I'm saying this ignition of that and that I think it would be our.

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Recommendation that, to the extent possible, we loosen the language.

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On eligible funding targets- and so you know so the barbershop so we're not so.

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We don't end up in a situation where we have a really strong administrative.

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Function, they have a very strong set of guidelines and rules that they're gonna.

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Apply which, by the way, we can report a few and and then we've kind of funded.

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Unintentionally, written ourselves out of being able to serve some businesses that.

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We would have theoretically wanted to serve, but because of the way the.

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Language in the resolution has limited us upfront. We can't really justify doing.

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That so it would be. You know my recommendation at this point and it.

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Would be that of the chamber and the bbc and dmi that we we loosen the language.

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Up as much as possible now within obviously the bounds of the.

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Law, but we do so not so that we can be reckless with with the implementation of.

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The program, but instead so that we can actually be as thorough and deliberate.

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With the implementation and make that we use the monies appropriately in the.

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Marketplace so I think right now, the language as it's currently written is is.

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More restrictive that we would recommend and- and we would like to you know at.

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Least, create it's okay to leave that as it is, create flexibility in a in a you.

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Know maybe including or you know, for example, language or.

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Something that says hey, this is the kinds of things that we want to try to do, but it doesn't include our billet doesn't exclude our ability to go and.

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Fund, in other cases, that may not be specified.

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Within the current language, mr. president, I see phillipa gut rehab has.

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Turned on her camera did she has something to add her microphone is not.

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Miss guthrie rita, can't hear you.

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Just a second right now, can you hear me no three, yes go ahead, please! I just.

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Wanted to clarify that the language needs to it's dictated by the statute.

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The language of the statute for the food and beverage tax and it it can't be.

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Overly broad because it needs to be well just to address upfront. I know some of.

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You may have this question. We are working still with the state board of.

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Accounts on whether or not they would accept our proposal as legal and we hope.

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To have a response by the end of the week from them, they fully understand.

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What we want to do and they want to help us with our situation, they're doing this.

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Kind of thing all over the state, but we won't necessarily here until the the end.

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Of the week that doesn't mean that you can't proceed with this tonight and that.

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The food and beverage tax advisory commission can't proceed, but I just.

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Wanted to put that out there, but the language is essentially, and I don't I'm.

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Not going to quote it, I'm going to paraphrase it, but it has to be related.

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To the convention center, the operation, the maintenance, the construction, so it.

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Has to it, and it says, or other tourism related or economic development projects.

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So we can't just say any and all businesses in wilmington that are.

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Struggling and then miss guthrie continuing along that same vein. What.

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Would what would be included then, under the economic development project, because.

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That to me seems to be language that makes it a little broader than just a.

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Bed-And-Breakfast or a restaurant, I don't know that I can answer that.

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Question: that's your right! You're right! Wouldn't.

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Whatever things troubled me in this particular document, just as a say up.

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Front I really support the idea of making these monies available that one.

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Whereas paragraphs that make me nervous was the common council includes that the.

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Support of these enterprises and to me it seems like we need more than just.

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Ourselves concluding it's a good idea to be, and so I appreciate what you said.

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About the state board of accounts and I'm wondering if we can adjust this.

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Language, so that something to the effect of having received reassurance from the.

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State board of accounts that this is the acceptable use of these funds. Can I just.

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Say that, as the haste the author of this resolution, that this is why I've.

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Emphasized the appropriation ordinance that there will need to be similar.

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Whereas clauses in the appropriation ordinance- and this is this- the only.

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Function of this resolution is to gain permission from the fabtech to even.

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Consider the appropriation ordinance, so we have time to improve the language. I.

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Hear you and I want to fix it so that it's appropriate okay, that makes them.

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Council repeat when smith, yes, I wanted to ask about support for individual.

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Employees in the service industries, rather than I mean in addition to.

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Supporting the business owners, mr. crowley, have you discussed that as well.

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With your group yeah we're looking at that, and I think the language and the.

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Resolution allows for that or as it stands right now, so you know there's two.

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Million dollars is a huge amount of money and for any and any of us.

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Individually, but it's it's really not a huge amount of money. When you look at.

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The totality of the need in the community so we're gonna have to be.

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Really deliberate about how we go about doing it, we certainly are keeping an eye.

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On individuals as employees, individuals as contractors, we have a focus on on an.

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Equity component to this, to make sure that you know it's not just the not the.

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The the the shiny thing that it's all the money, but that we're really.

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Looking across the spectrum of the equity spectrum to make sure that we're.

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Covering all parts the community, particularly those areas that tend to be.

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Underserved, so that can be individuals there are. There are people who are.

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Basically, sole proprietors or you know just people doing jobs and we need to.

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Factor that that group in but again what we're trying to do is avoid. You know.

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Stepping on the toes of some of the other stimulus activity, that's going on.

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I in fact have a series of questions out to the folks gwd the development having.

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To do specifically with in some cases you know is if we were to do monies to.

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An individual does that somehow affect or disqualify them from other kind of.

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Stimulus so we're watching. We want to make sure that we're not inadvertently.

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Creating a problem or when we're trying to fix one but but yes, we're looking at.

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The question of individuals to organisations councillor rallo you're on.

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Mute there you go, I think this is for miss guthrie, so we're waiting for.

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Approval from the state board of accounts once this proceeds would we.

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Then issue a list of those businesses targeted for assistance for their.

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Approval to make sure that we weren't in violation. How would that work? I hadn't.

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Envisioned that I don't know what they will say, they they were primarily.

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Concerned with whether or not the statute allowed us to do this legally.

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And there they're also concerned about how it would work. You know who would be.

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Vetting these businesses just the whole process, so I don't know okay, so the.

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Administration of this is complicated and I guess we'll just have to go we'll.

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Just have to proceed and and do it in there it with coordination with the.

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State board of accounts say, crank yeah. Well, I don't imagine they are going to.

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Want to get involved in the nuts and bolts of it, I think they're at a higher.

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Level, they just want to be assured that what we are doing is legal and they are.

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They are very mindful of the fact that we are in very strange and unusual.

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Circumstances- and they want to give us some leeway, but they don't want to do.

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Something that they feel is improper under the law and they want to make sure.

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That it's not some fly-by-night operation where we're just throwing cash.

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Out to entities without vetting them, okay, that's anyway, all right.

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Thank you, customers, campbell laurie. Thank you. I are there. Anybody who has.

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Not already asked a question yet do want to ask question pass over smith. I just.

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Wondered if that's were smith thank thank you, president boland. I would would.

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Ask does the ordinance restrict the return of the tax expenditure, the tax.

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That was pulled in through the food and beverage tax to the companies or the.

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Businesses are the entities that have contributed to the food and beverage tax.

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Fund that clear enough for not yeah, I can answer that they're actually just.

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The collection agency for it so that the tax is just remitted to the state by the.

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Restaurants and bars that have collected the tax it actually is paid by the.

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Patrons of those businesses, so there's no nexus for them to receive it back.

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Because it's not a bottom-line expense for those businesses, and this is a tax.

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That's much like sales tax there are. There are the people that pay it and.

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Then the people that are admit it, the businesses, remit sales tax and they.

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Remit, the food beverage tax, so I see it's not specifically tied to them.

C

That's correct. Thank you councillor, rosenberger thanks. I just I think I just.

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Wanted to really reiterate: councilmember piedmont, smith question that I I would.

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Say I am really concerned about the direct relief that we would be giving to.

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Employees, but I think also it might be difficult to call them employ them, and I.

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Don't know legally what we might say, because a lot of people have been laid off so they're, not employees anymore. It's like looking at service and groups.

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Industry, workers and some other way- I guess, but.

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And I think everyone is touching on this, but I do think it would need to be a.

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Process where right, we don't just give money to the businesses and have them.

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Distribute that to employees, because it wouldn't be equal and we wouldn't want.

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Owners deciding who gets what in that way, but I I just I guess, wanted to.

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Reiterate that I think it is really important that if we are allowed to do.

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This and we're not stepping on the toes of the federal government or the state.

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Government and what people receive it would be good for us to have a process.

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For individuals in the service industry to apply for grants is that a question.

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I'm sorry it's not it's not a question. I guess I mean yeah. Let me address it by.

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Saying that again, this is just the first step in a process of the resolution and.

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That, because we need 10 days to advertise the f-word, there is at least.

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That much time that we have to, I mean decide, and the other thing is that the.

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App board is entirely within the hands of the city council to decide how to.

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Spend that money, and so I want to strongly encourage you and to work with.

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The sustainable development committee, who is you know, point on this topic too.

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And with the staff here present tonight to figure out what is the most accurate.

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Equitable way to distribute this money and what process we might use? Okay, I.

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Mean I guess if I a question in here, it would be in our.

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Resolution we do mention employees and, like would that legally be a problem.

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Then for people who have been laid off or does it is that irrelevant at this.

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Point in time miss guthrie. What do you think? I don't think we need to address.

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It tonight I understand your concern and part of that I think, was to express.

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Concern for employees and that perhaps one of the routes for that was to give.

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Grants or loans to the businesses to be able to keep employees on the payroll so.

U

As far as employees, who are no longer employed, that's a question. Some of them.

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Have been furloughed, it's hard to say just to reiterate a point that alex made.

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Is that it's very important that we worked with the department of workforce.

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Development, so that nothing that we would do would damage the fact that they.

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May be receiving benefits because there are repayment requirements and penalties.

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If they get what they would consider reportable income that wasn't reported.

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And they would actually reduce their benefits due to that, so we need to be.

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Very, very careful we're talking about current poised and for lloyd and those.

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That have been, you know, let go permanently right. Thank you. Are there.

A

Any other first round, questions for members who have not yet asked a question: if not second round, mrs. campbell laurie, I think you had another.

A

Follow-Up question. Thank you. Just to clarify my understanding was hearing a.

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Lot of questions and concerns about process and how things actually get.

J

Decided and what the guiding principles are making these awards.

J

Mr. crowley correct me if I'm wrong, but you mentioned that you are working on a.

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Policy document on a policy paper with the working group is that correct and if.

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I understand correctly that's the kind of information that will come out of it.

J

Is that right or yeah yeah we're in a little bit of a mad scramble to pull.

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This together, but yes, that's exactly so we're gonna, be you know it's. This will.

T

T

Document that will be augmented overtime. You know there are quite we're talking.

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About the immediate challenge right now, but we have to keep an eye on and before.

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Casting out what are the long-term revenue implications to tax rolls and.

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All that we need to think about recovery, we need to protect resources today to be.

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Able to ensure that recovery is as strong as possible when we need it. We.

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Need to keep you know, projects going like you know the investments that we're.

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Making around the city to be able to ensure that when recovery happens, we.

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Have infrastructure in place to be able to do that so, but in the immediate? What.

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We're trying to do literally by tomorrow, close the business is put together. Some.

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Initial thoughts about, first of all, what are those principles so principles could.

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Be you know, speak to lab to leverage public monies against other resources as.

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Effectively as possible right, that could be a high level principle that we we.

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Kind of baked into how we we set up products, you know it can have principles.

T

Of equity- I've talked a little bit about that. So I mean there are a number of high-level thoughts that we would put against that. So some very specific.

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Reason doing research, what are other communities doing you know around the.

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Country, one of the unfortunate benefit and happening some communities further.

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Along in the curve than we are, is that they've they've kind of felt it faster.

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And they actually have gone ahead of of where we to some of these programs. So we.

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Have that benefit of being able to see what's happening around the country? We.

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Have and we're bringing information like that to bear we're looking at cdfi.

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Products and that are being stood up for this particular crisis, so we can have.

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Information about that- and we can learn from that. So what are the terms that they're laying it the you know? What are they doing in terms of waiving fees.

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Where they do, how long is alone? How long does the repayment, or how long has it.

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Taken to repayment as necessary things like that, so you know there's a lot of.

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Information we're quickly compiling it. We will put it together.

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In a preliminary form, by close of business tomorrow and then that document.

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Will get built on because it will you know we will continue to do work on it.

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But also we will bit start to give it to longer-term both mid-range and long term.

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You know recovery efforts that we need to keep an eye on, even as we address the.

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Problems, that's very helpful and reassuring. Thank you. Okay, if there's no.

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Other questions at this point I'd like to open up the floor to public comment.

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On this resolution again, oh mr. flaherty had a question yeah. I think.

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One or two actually and my apologies if these were asked in the brief minutes.

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Where I stepped out earlier, one is is really confirming a couple of.

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Impressions from the resolution one is with which one of which is this does not.

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Commit us to spending two million dollars and says we could use this money.

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For this purpose and wanted to confirm that that's that's correct and then two.

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I just wanted to ask about. I know when the county commissioners passed their.

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Resolution last week requesting that the fabtech recommend the the allocation of.

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Two hundred thousand dollars- that was an amount that was sort of unencumbered or.

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At least not earmarked for a separate project product project among the.

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Portion that is in the county's accounts. That would not be the case really with.

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The city where we have pledged, at least in some some respect, I guess there was a.

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Ordinance last year or in its 1909 bretons that we specified, we would use.

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6.25 million for architecture fees related to metro center and the amount.

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Of money in the city counts, I don't think he's even at that level. Right now,.

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So just wondering how that interacts? How that commitment that previous ordinance.

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That was passed by the council interacts with this resolution and potential.

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Appropriations ordinance again, my apologies, if either of those two questions where we're asked, let me start with the first issue and then maybe you.

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Turn it over to jeff, that's okay! For the second one, the the to address the first.

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One, it would be actually not only. Would we not only is specified that we we must.

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Spend two million: we actually recommend that we do it.

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Multiple tranches, so we pick an amount and again it'll have to come from. What's.

T

The most burning urgent need, but that we not you, know, use up all the powder in.

T

The first in the first girlfriend, because we see what the effect of that.

T

Is we need to see you know what kind of money's come back, but we would certainly.

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Look to potentially use the full amount over time, but to do so very discipline.

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Way so we again we would. We would earmark some initial portion of that and.

T

Go to market with it and and we'll learn stuff we're not going to get everything.

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Right, the first time out and so that we have not burned through and that we we.

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Reserve a portion of it for a secondary phase of of going to market. So that's.

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The answer that I would have for the for the two million jeff- I don't know- can.

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You talk to the earmarking. Yes, currently we have appropriated the amount of money.

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That we do have in the fund, so there would have to be some reallocations.

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As you said, commissioner, clarity that the council did appropriate the majority.

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Of the funds we had available to us so before the appropriation ordinance, we'll.

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Be working on the accounting part of that and would have a recommendation on.

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If we need to cut back on some of those other commitments, how much and for what.

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Project as well as looking at additional funds that may come in. Obviously this is.

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Just happening it's going to be several months before we know what the impact is.

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On food and beverage, we know that you know it's going to be significant at.

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This point, but what that is, we do not know at this point so we'll just have to.

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Wait and see: okay, but just a quick follow-up to confirm. Then it's it's not.

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um It's possible to to pass a new appropriations ordinance for two million.

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Dollars it would just require some perhaps revisiting previous.

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Appropriation as the council is made correct. Okay, thank you all right again,.

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On that note, let's go to the public if there's any member of the public who.

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Would like to speak to this issue. Mr. lucas is standing by watching the.

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Chat list: you may also attempt to raise your hand, which is not be a video, but.

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The raised hand function in zoom, so will now open the floor to and give me a.

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Second, we've got our first acre, yeah you'll have three minutes unmute and I'm.

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Going to allow folks to activate their own video, they don't have to it's up to.

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Them so all right good evening, all this is.

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Aaron, prime or the president, ceo of the greater bloomington chamber of commerce,.

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And it is good to see all of your faces, even though we can't be together. This.

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Evening I just wanted to give my support to this resolution on behalf of all of.

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Our members last week calling them on the phone to check on them and I can take her deep alive. It's not just the restaurants.

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Which we're very worried about it is our friends who are selling us. Our clothes.

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Or the barbers that are cutting our hair besides places that we usually go to all.

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Of those places that are our hoosiers are hunkering down as we know, but that.

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Means so many of our employers in the area and our employees have nothing to.

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Do and they can't they can't run their business without customers and people.

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There so thank you for considering this resolution tonight. We again function.

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We're working closely with with alex and the rest of the team on this and are.

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Excited to see what what this money is going to be able to do, I mean it's going.

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To be very meaningful to our members in the rest of the community and I'm glad.

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And appreciate that you're considering it tonight, I know it's a it's a hard right turn after being working so hard with the convention center for the food.

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Beverage tax and working so hard in that direction, but I think it's necessary so.

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I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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Further public comment: please signal wit, but the raised hand function or make a.

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Comment in the chat function of zoom, I I received an emphatic yes from one.

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Participant, I don't take that to mean he wants to comment. Okay, we do have one.

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Taker just a second all right. I think you should be good to go.

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Curtis, can you hear us yes, I can. Can you hear me? Okay? Yes, yes, wonderful! Thank you.

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All so much and to the council. Thank you so much for bringing this resolution to.

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Full name bc table name very sorry, stephen. This is curtis cummings with.

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Switchyard brewing company. I want to thank the council for taking the time to.

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Consider this resolution this evening. I also want to thank the council for being.

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Fiscally responsible these funds, after all the food and beverage tax dollars, do.

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Not belong to the food and beverage operators here in monroe county those.

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Dollars belong to the citizens and the tourists of this county. I say: tourists.

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On on purpose, because bloomington is known for our food and beverage scene.

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We're known for our unique local and independent shops, people visit this town.

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From all over for the culture that we create and the people that are here in.

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The city and the small businesses that they've created as one of those.

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Operators in this town that took seven years to open my business, we are now.

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Faced with a very uncertain future, it was one of the most difficult things.

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I've ever had to do in my career is laying off 24 of what I consider my.

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Family, we did not expect this when writing out our business plan. No.

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We're in my business plane doesn't say a worldwide pandemic the week prior to the.

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Cova crisis: we saw a 55% reduction in total taproom revenue and over $12,000.

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In private event, revenue canceled, we wrote the petition on change.org for our.

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Staff to show them that we're trying to do something that we are constantly.

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Pushing forward for them to bring their jobs back and to ensure that this.

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Brewery is here when they return when we can get through this together, and I just.

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Want to say thank you to the council for even considering this and if there's any.

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Questions for me directly. I have no problem answering. Thank you very much.

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Thank you. So any further public comment on resolution. 2005. Please raise your.

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Hand and zoom or speak up in the chat function of zoom mr. lucas. Any takers.

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Not that I see folks just a few more moments, anyone want to speak on.

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Resolution 2005, who is in zoom, please raise your hand in zoom or we think.

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Having on chat yeah, we do have one taker just give me one. Second, very good, yeah.

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Good evening my name is chris barton, I'm the director of operation or any.

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Hospitality and obviously represent a pretty large number of restaurants in.

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The downtown bloomington area- a very appreciative of the council here in me-.

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Tonight, and also having the the discussion that you had regarding this.

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Resolution really, you know, I think curtis curtis speaks well for how every.

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Individual independent restaurant operator in the downtown blow an area.

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Feels right now and I think it's important to understand that you know as.

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Jeff underwood mentioned couple times: you know the landscapes.

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Changing quickly- and we really don't know what tomorrow will bring- or next.

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Week will bring, but if you walk around downtown on a regular basis, these last.

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10 days every day, another restaurant or bar or private business was choosing to.

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Close even before the governor mandated that they had to because they couldn't.

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Stay open and I bring 35 years of restaurant experience to the fennec team.

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All across the united states and in a very sort of intertwined in the in the.

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Bloomington community, in a lot of different ways- and I just want to make.

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Sure you all understand that mmm a week for now 10 to 20% of the restaurants.

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That existed in downtown bloomington a month ago will not a month from now 50%.

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Of the restaurants that existed a month ago in downtown will not maybe more, we.

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Try to understand what to use the f&b tax on in this time of crisis. I think.

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It's also to make sure we fully understand that the base of that tax.

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Where people go to spend their money to generate the revenue into that tax,.

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Bucket could easily typically different in a month, so anything you can do to.

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Help every independent operator in the downtown bloomington area is going to.

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Make a difference and no matter how it's used, whether it's used specifically for.

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The owners or for their team members it's going to make a difference, and you.

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Know the tourism in bloomington, one of the big draws is obviously you know what.

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You can do in downtown bloomington and that landscape is going to change, and I.

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Would just really appreciate, as you vote tonight, thanks a lot. Thank you. Any.

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Further public comment on resolution: 2005: please raise your hand in zoom or.

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Speak up in the chat function of zoom, so that mr. lucas can see that you're.

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Interested mr. lucas, any takers.

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No more takers that I can see: okay, we'll wait another 10-15 seconds if there's.

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Anyone who wants to speak to resolution 2005, please use the raise your hand.

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Function and zoom or use the chat function to speak mr. lucas will well is.

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Observing the chat all right, then, let's come back to the council for further.

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Questions if any or debate mr. sims sorry, is this final comment or either/or.

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Thank you. First of all like say, I definitely support resolution 2005 and I.

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Think there'll be more questions and, first of all, thank you. Everyone and all.

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The discussion scene, because it brought up a lot of issues and questions that I.

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Think we're all been thinking and I think there'll be more developed. But.

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Time we get to the appropriations ordinates phase and I think that'll give.

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um And particularly folks, like mr. crowley and mr. underwood, a chance to.

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Flesh out in miss guthrie a chance to flesh out some of the questions that.

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We've had this evening, I had some questions or concerns initially about.

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Eligibility businesses other than those that are considered a food and beverage.

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Entities- arts organizations were mentioned earlier, not that we didn't.

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Think about those, but I think it's very important: how is the entire downtown, who.

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Was basically built on or ism or its sustained a lot by tourism.

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um How were their eligibility be considered? These are questions that can.

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Be answered tonight, but I'm looking forward to them being answered later. I.

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Also want to thank mr. crowley again and the group that he's working with, I think.

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These are some very important issues that they're working on on. How do you.

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Quantify the local economic need. What are the the total sources of funding? How.

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Are these models that they're seeing across the country being used and.

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Particularly in those areas, but how are they been aiding us in developing our.

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Own local model and enough, most importantly, make his measurements. How.

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Will we measure this need and then measure its effectiveness, so I am.

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Looking forward to more discussion as we move toward the a board or I'm sorry.

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Appropriation ordinate space and I just want to thank some of the community.

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Members for some of their comments as well.

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So thank you. Thank you mr. simms councilmember sandburg. Yes, I think we're.

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Finding ourselves in very somber time think about the whole culture of.

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Bloomington and what makes it so unique and special our independent businesses.

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Restaurants, the arts, and so I wholeheartedly support what we're doing.

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Tonight, which I understand is step one. We have many more questions. We have many.

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More things to get solidified before the next phase- that's I do want to also give.

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My thanks and gratitude to the internal team, the the whole co cg, the.

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Continuation of city government team and the subcommittee that's working very.

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Hard on the mechanics that cannot be understated city council cannot do this.

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By ourselves, without the day-to-day staff, who are very diligently working on.

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The details, not the least of which our legal staff who are working with the the.

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Legal decision-makers about what we can and.

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Cannot do going forward so we're all very fluid in these times. We need to be.

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Very flexible in these times, but with regard to the empathy that we have for.

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Our restaurants and our bars and our entertainment that just put bloomington.

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On the map and to think that any of that is being jeopardized in these really.

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Difficult times when people can't get out, people cannot, you know, participate in in all of these businesses. They're gonna.

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Need the support to keep their doors open if we have any hope of bringing.

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Bloomington back to its glory, once we are able to do so, so this is absolutely.

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Necessary, I'm all for it. I will be voting yes. Thank you.

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Thank you, council, bur sandberg, further comment for members.

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That's over smith. I certainly would like to voice my support for this resolution.

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It's an incredibly important and step towards trying to help out people that.

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Are really suffering in a community so thanks to alex crowley and jeff and.

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Everybody, phillip, miss guthrie and the internal team as well. Thank you very.

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Much I'll be supporting it. Thank you, council, member smith, further debate from.

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Members kind of over piedmont smith. Yes, thank you. I am very grateful for the.

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Report from mr. crowley tonight it really reassures me that experts in the.

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Field of theater headed long-term thinking. People are on the case and are.

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Looking at the economic consequences on our community of this epidemic- and I am.

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Very pleased to hear that I'm looking forward to hopefully receiving a copy of.

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The white paper that they're preparing for tomorrow evening, I think that will help us in our deliberations on the appropriation.

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Ordinance which would come after assuming we passed the resolution.

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Tonight and the fabtech passes their recommendation along to us next week or.

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On friday, so I am very grateful to this team that the city's assembled to plan.

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For the economic times, the uncertain and dire economic times that are ahead of us.

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And I look forward to their expert guidance as we decide what details to.

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Put into the appropriation ordinance and then how to administer the funds so that.

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They are used most efficiently and most effectively to help businesses and.

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Employees survive this economic downturn, so I'm very much in favor of this. Thank.

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You thank you councilman morello. I I want to echo everything. That's been said.

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I I expect this crisis to go on for, unfortunately, quite a long time, so I am.

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Very supportive of this, but I considered a first round attempt at bridge funding.

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For businesses we have to revisit this again. I think the administration of this.

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Will be complicated, I think it will be the eligibility and so forth in order to.

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Comply with the state board of accounts rules, so I guess we. This is a good first.

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Round, I think that this will we'll have to recalibrate as we proceed on the.

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Basis of evaluating at the effectiveness and I and I would like to thank the.

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Administration esd the controller, miss guthrie and mayor hamilton, support for.

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This thanks. Thank you further debate. That's what we're flaherty yeah just a.

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Few comments first echo those saying that I very much appreciate the.

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Diligence and thoroughness with which city staff controller.

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Mr. crowley definitely have all looked at the details of this and the allowance.

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Of it and how exactly we fit in the contours of the state statute and the.

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Guidance from the state board of accounts- I know we have some more.

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Guidance forthcoming there I'll mention- and it's been mentioned by a few others.

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That I've heard from a number of constituents, including local restaurant.

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Owners downtown, as well as servers and bartenders that are a little concerned.

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About this, going only to business owners as opposed to the service workers and.

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Staff and employees, or even in some cases, former employees, so I think that's.

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A really important piece- I know it's on the you know the mind of the folks.

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Working on this, including the council, members and members of the sustainable.

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Midi, it's just something. I've wanted to do spotlight and and say that we need to.

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All be keeping in mind as we look at what types of policy guidance we would.

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Like to see in the appropriations ordinance and in other documents related.

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To any expenditures of these tax revenues, and finally, just thank you to.

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The chamber, the local business owners curtis coming, certainly who got this.

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Petition started, and others who've been working on this for those watching.

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Tonight or later, I would suggest that you, if you have specific ideas, related.

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To any of this concerns questions please reach out to your council members and.

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And share those with us, so we can make sure that we're getting good input from.

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From constituents from the public from business owners as to you know what.

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Their needs are and how we can best craft, a policy that will serve the.

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Greater good of the bloomington community, so that's! That's all for me.

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Thanks. Thank you. Any further debate from council members, councilman bruce.

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Campbell larry. Thank you again. I want to express my thanks.

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Certainly, to alex and his team, but particularly to those teams that have.

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Kind of come together on the fly to respond to these kinds of question. The.

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Bloomington economic development, corporation dimension, don't link cdfi.

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From the region- and many others have really, I feel better- I sleep better.

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Knowing that you're working on this, I guess it's going to say, but I just want to say thank you so and I'll be supporting you. Thank you.

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Seeing no other council members who wish to speak, I want to say a couple things.

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And I'm kind of gonna kind of combine the last part of the meeting the council.

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Schedule with my comment so because the governor has asked for only essential.

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Business to be done in order to prevent some business that would almost have to.

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Be done otherwise we're going to be cancelling the regular session of april.

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First, but I will be immediately asking after this vote because I assume it's.

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Going to pass for a special session to be called for april first and their.

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Normal time we would have had a regular session just to consider the app board.

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That what the appropriation ordinance that is, the logical successor to this.

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Resolution- and this is where there will be a lot of questions and debate about.

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How we should structure the use of this money and it's going to be very.

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Important and I think in particular mr. crowley, this message is to to you about.

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The bankers who have stepped forward to assist they're, going to be an essential.

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Part of anything we do, we need help to figure out how to structure the loan or.

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The bridge loans, or whatever we're going to to do to mitigate the impact of this.

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On low at the local private sector and again, the it requires a 10-day period.

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Between the advertising of it and the approval of an appropriation ordinance.

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So it seems to me that the earliest we could approve the ordinance would happen.

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To be the time of the next meeting we had scheduled, which was an unusual day.

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It was excused day it seventh meeting, whether it's tuesday or.

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Wednesday at this point, I feel like that's going to be the right amount of.

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Time between getting the details right of this program, but not waiting too long.

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To invoke the program so and as soon as this vote is done, I'm going to move to.

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To ask that we move to cancel the regular session and to call a special.

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Session, it doesn't, it seems, like rearranging deck chairs, but it really.

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Isn't it's an important step we need to take? I want to thank everyone for.

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Considering this on such a short notice, the resolution was prepared, maybe 48.

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Hours ago, and it was an anticipation of and in response to, the the good first.

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Step that the county has taken to address the issue with what resources we.

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Have at hand the one thing that I have thought all along about this use of the.

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Fund is that at least we've established in the first two years of the existence.

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Of the fat tax that there is a substantial aid as a substantial, we.

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Restaurant sector in bloomington at 3.5 million dollars last year, that's a 350.

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Million dollar a year gross revenue, food and beverage sector. The second thing is.

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That, if we can get our industry back to where it was, we can generate the revenue.

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To build a convention, or we may have to put more money into the bond than we.

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Were planning to spend instead of just spending cash, so we may have to finance.

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It but that's still a far cheaper price to pay and to lose this substance. A.

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Substantial part of our local economy- and I don't think that the entirety of.

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The sector is in jeopardy, but I mean if we don't move within a month. I I agree.

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That you know we were at risk of losing half the restaurants.

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Sector, it's not like other communities, don't have similar problems, but its.

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Particular focus for our community, we rely on it more and we, you know we value.

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It so I will also say that I am concerned about at the same time that.

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I'm concerned about the businesses who have been forced to lay off staff, I'm.

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Concerned about the staff that laid off- and I don't know what the answer is.

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Right now, whether money should go directly to people who have been laid.

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Off how to to make that work, I am open to all suggestions and I want to urge my.

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Colleagues to consider that whatever gets put into the packet friday for that.

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Appropriation ordinance is going to be in need of work, so don't hesitate to.

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Write amendments we're not going to be able to cobble together a plan for how.

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To use this money in two days, it's going to take that entire period, and so we may.

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Be looking at amendments on april 1st we're looking at amendments on april 7th.

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Or 8th, but it's going to need everyone's help to craft this language and to is.

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The resulting program that mr. crowley and others will be executing so I'm.

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Asking you for your help here, because I can't no no, but no one person can write.

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This particular ordinance alone and considering that everything else has to.

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Go on the back burner. This is essential business that I need everybody's focus.

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On with that, if there's no other comment, other question second give a call in a.

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Second, with a clerk, please call the roll in resolution. 2005 sounds remember, p,.

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Month, met yes, 30, yes, smith, yes, sandburg, yes, raleigh.

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Yes, skinned valerie, yep, rosenberger, yeah.

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Sims, yes, boland! Yes, thank you that pax is nine.

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Zero. Thank you all with that. We're gonna go to council.

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Schedule I need a motion to cancel the regular session through next week.

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Motions and cancel favor signify by saying aye opposed, say, nay, the eyes have.

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It need a motion for a special session. At the same time, I move that we hold a.

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Special session next wednesday april, 1st, starting at 6:30 p.m.

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Thank you second motion in a second all in favor, please signify by saying aye.

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Opposed say, nay, we will have a special session instead of a regular session.

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Next week at 6:30, and we will likely be taking up an appropriation ordinance in.

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Response to this, the fabtech again meets 5:30 a 5 o'clock on friday to consider.

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The resolution we've just passed. We are of course, going to be meeting virtually.

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By zoom, as we did tuesday and as those of us have done here tonight, mr. shermin.

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Do we have any other business? No. Thank you all right with that. I want to thank.

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Everyone for being patient in this experiment, zoom seemed to work pretty.

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Well, if you have any comments about how this went tonight, please feel free to.

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Email, any of us on the city council, if there's no objection by the way, also.

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I've seen you all it literally in a new light tonight, and I think that this is a.

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Good way of meeting- and I wonder if we can't integrate it into our processes,.

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When we go back to normal mr. simms, thank you. I don't want to screw up the.

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Process, but I think one thing that we failed to mention this evening: I want to.

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Get do thanks. That's too clerk bowden for her part in.

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Facilitating zoom in this virtual meeting here here I.

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Also want to say thanks to andrew krebbs in the mayor's office and to steven.

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Lucas, who has spent all day, coordinating this very unusual meeting, and it has.

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Proven to me that we can successfully meet online and that zoom is a pretty.

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Good tool for it, so with that, if there are no other comments, move we adjourn. Second, all in favor say aye aye. We are adjourned.

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Good night, everyone we'll see you on april first good night. Thank you.

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