City of Bloomington, MN The BUZZ: 2020, 16 Jul 2020

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From YouTube: Bloomington Today: The BUZZ July 15

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A new proclamation means face coverings are required at City buildings, where to go if you’re in need of rental assistance and learn about a new grant awarded to Parks and Recreation.

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Welcome to bloomington today, I'm emily taplin thanks for joining us. Now we bring you the buzz for the week of july 15th through the 21st. A new proclamation announced by the mayor on monday july 13 means face. Masks are now required to be worn in all city buildings.

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This comes after hearing many concerns from bloomington residents about not feeling safe around others not wearing masks and knowing wearing masks is one of the multiple steps to help stop the spread of covet 19.. The council will also host a public hearing on july 27th to determine if masks will be required throughout the entire city.

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The mayor has said he expects and hopes governor wells will require a statewide measure before that, if you have fallen behind on rent or utilities because of coven 19 hennepin county might be able to help, hennepin county is offering emergency rent assistance to low-income households who have lost income due to covit. If you would like additional information visit, the web address on your screen this month, parks and recreation was awarded a 363 thousand dollar grant from hennepin county. The hennepin county cares act.

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Funding is part of an effort to find new and creative ways to make summer fun. Amidst the coronavirus.

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We're super excited to get this grant from hennepin county. It's a lot of money and it'll be a lot of work, but we want to do everything we can to make sure the rest of summer is just as fun for our youth.

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Some things we're working on are an online recreation center, our mobile recreation center, which will be going around to different parks throughout the city with different opportunities take home summer camp, which is a variety of different boxes, from get active to jewelry, making that you can take home and do on your own all summer long paddle, board classes, archery classes, learn to bike classes and even some historical and cultural programming there's something for everyone, and we can't wait to see you this summer.

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Information about the new programs will be available in the future check back at the address on your screen for the latest. That is the buzz on bloomington today for the week of july 15th through the 21st.

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If you would like to watch other stories from the show go to this week's playlist, there you'll find an overview of racial equity work being done in the city, plus a virtual tour of the latest inez-greenberg gallery exhibit presented by artistry thanks for watching.

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