City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 14 Aug 2020

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Scam calls, Boulder’s Business Recovery Program, and city council

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This week on inside folder news, scam, phone calls related to cova 19 contact tracing are being reported, we'll tell you how you can avoid falling victim to these calls. Boulder's business recovery program has been extended, see how this has helped. Local businesses keep afloat and city council seeks community feedback on its online meetings.

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Welcome to inside builder news your source for all things boulder, I'm jocelyn, avendano, boulder county public health announced this week that it is seeing an average of 13.6 new coven 19 cases daily compared to last week's number of 23 cases per day, though, the average number of cases is in the decline as of now. The county also reported that the number of boulder county residents who are currently hospitalized for jokovic 19, is on the rise.

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A high rate of hospitalizations according to health officials, will decrease the medical system's ability to provide care for those who need it most seeing home whenever possible and minimizing shopping trips and in-person meetings are essential to stopping the spread of the disease. Boulder county public health also announced this week that has been receiving multiple reports of a scam involving phone calls from people who claim to be conducting contact tracing for covet 19..

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During these calls, residents have been asked to provide a credit card number to purchase a test and they're told they need to get tested within 72 hours. The county reminds the community that it will never ask payment of any kind, never ask for social security number, never ask for proof of residency and will never require testing without discussing the individual's exposure.

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First, the community is encouraged to call the number seen on screen if they are contacted by someone stating they are a contact tracer who asked for financial or personal non-health related information, as discussed during the august 4th council meeting boulder city council and engagement team is seeking input on online council meeting participation during a listening session scheduled for august 19th. The city is asking three questions. If you have not participated in an online city council meeting, how could we help you to do so? If you have participated in an online council meeting?

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What did you like about the experience and how could we improve it? Community members are invited to join this virtual session on august 19th from 5 30 to 7, 30 pm council member bob yates and rachel friend will join city staff for this session. Registration is required in advance in order to receive a link to the meeting participants can register on the link. Seen on your screen, more information on the virtual listening session may be found on the city's newsroom.

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It's no secret. The large impact kova 19 has had on our local businesses and restaurants. According to the colorado restaurant association, 62 percent of restaurants say they will consider closing permanently in the next six months under current condition. This was the case for this boulder restaurant, who, with the help from the boulder business recovery program, has been able to continue operations operating since 1995.

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The buff restaurant has opened its doors to tourists and locals alike through its 25 years of service. This casual restaurant has become one of boulder's, most popular breakfast and lunch spots. Unfortunately, like many other businesses across the state and the country, kova 19 brought sales to this boulder business to a halt. Whenever.

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We would worry about how our income was going to be. My husband always said. We have tomorrow sales until we didn't, and that was march 16th, and we had to close our doors.

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With over 60 employees to take care of at the buff meyer found herself having to take difficult measures, we were.

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Not able to keep afloat, it's been really difficult. Most restaurants that I know have been decimated by what happened. We took a second out on our house to take care of our employees to the best.

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Of our ability, once the guidelines began to ease the buff and many other restaurants were able to provide curbside service to clients in may the city of boulder voiced its commitments to make the reopening process as simple as possible for the local business community. It's been.

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Almost like opening up a brand new restaurant again stepping in we had retired and now we're here, every single solitary day doing the best that we can to get at least 60 percent of the business that we had before.

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Through the boulder business recovery program, local businesses have been able to convert some existing loading zones for general curbside pickup use for businesses that are not in the vicinity of an existing zone. The program also offers a free application for new curbside pickup zones. The program also allows businesses to expand outdoor seating into public rights of way and elsewhere on private property.

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It's been necessary. Expanding our business outside we didn't have a choice. It was kind of a maker to break it. Come july, 1st that if we didn't have some business, we were going to have to close after 25 years.

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This week the city announced the extension of the boulder business recovery program through october 31st to date, there's over 20 curbside pickup zones and over 94 outdoor expansions. The community support is still more important than ever. It's it's actually.

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Vital for everybody to shop local and to do what they can if they, if they aren't comfortable coming into a restaurant, I strongly recommend that they get curbside and do whatever they can to support the shopping. The small local shops, the mom.

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And pop shops for more information on boulder's business recovery program. Please visit the website seen on screen boulder county in partnership with the city of boulder, launched a small business equity program, a new initiative by partners for a clean environment, also known as pace to help small businesses, save energy and money by replacing outdated restaurant and grocery equipment and lighting. We realize.

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That a one-size-fits-all program is inadequate, and especially during this time that we're in right now with the pandemic and the economy.

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This program, I think, is really going to serve uh small businesses, small locally owned businesses that are challenged to stay.

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Open there are two separate grant offerings in the small business equity program. A restaurant and grocery equipment grant and an outdated lighting upgrade bonus both covering up to 70 percent of project costs and because.

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Equity is such a focus for the city. This program is really looking at who benefits?

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Who who receives city services, and how can we help them through these difficult times, and so we hope with helping to replace some inefficient, maybe broken equipment we're going to help lower overhead costs, lower utility bills and ongoing maintenance costs.

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To be eligible for this program, businesses must be located within boulder county minority-owned. Businesses are highly encouraged to apply. There's.

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A list- and it's not it's not hard and fast, but it's guidelines to say who's eligible for this amount of service, both financial and technical assistance through pace and so going to pacepartners.com equity you'll find all the criteria there. Thank.

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You so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside building news stay tuned to boulder channel 8 for up-to-date information on coronavirus. You can look at us on facebook and twitter. You can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox. Just go to boulder channel 8.com and click on subscribe and be sure to check out the city's online newsroom for the latest city news. We'll see you next.

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