 So, good morning, everyone. I would like to call to order the Durham Recovery and Renewal Task Force meeting. It seems like it's been a long time since I saw all of you because we didn't meet last week. Hopefully you guys had a great time taking some time off. I actually realized last night that we actually hit a very important milestone last Friday, which in hindsight, it's probably the real reason we took last Friday off, but we didn't even know. That we had hit the milestone. So last Friday, July 3rd marked our 50th day working together as a task force. So I think that's worth celebrating. We were halfway through the journey that has been originally defined for us. And I was excited about that, not just because we've gotten through 50 days, but I was really excited about that because I continue to be amazed at the work that we've done in less than two months. And I know that no one on this task force is 100% dedicated to just a task force. So I am truly thankful to be working with such a great team that's not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get work done. So happy 50 day anniversary to everyone. And with that, I will turn it over to Mayor Schull and to Jacob to provide some updates. Good morning, Wendy, would you like to start and maybe describe the changes in the order and other things that you want to forward and then I'll follow. Sure. It sounds great. Well, good morning, everyone. It's good. Good to see everybody again. And as Natisha said, I, I, I hope everyone did get some rest last weekend, because we all do need to re energize and refraction recharge and it is hard to believe that this much time has passed. And when I look back at the preparing for today and looking back at the agenda and the notes from the roundtables and, and also this week I really dedicated myself to trying to I'm trying to attend as many of the roundtables as I could and I saw a lot of a Brian this week. Thank you, Brian for your incredible work supporting the roundtables. What I really felt. I'm going to get the reports from all the roundtables as you can see now, kind of the level of depth that that we're getting into with trying to really bear down and understand the challenges. That's what one of the themes that I felt in the conversations that I've been in. And when I think about the challenges we have as things are reopening. We have summer camps, having some of the staff become sick or restaurants, having staff become sick and, you know, having to have your, your staff out quarantining, who may have been exposed and then how, how businesses are dealing with that. I was listening yesterday some of us were in a conversation with the schools, which we'll discuss more today. But really understanding how important the work of this, of this roundtable is because everything that is happening in the community. As Dr. Acumbaya says, it impacts every facet of what we're doing and I, I do really feel like we're making really good progress. Even the communication and the relations that are building when I sit in the roundtables and hear how people are supporting each other and exchanging ideas and clarifying what their needs are. I just feel how important this work is. Related to the safer at home order revision our ninth amendment. So, another marking of the passage of time. The main things in this order are number one aligning our mass gatherings with the governor's order to now be 25 people outdoors and 10 people indoors. So we have strengthened the guidelines around employees screenings to increase them to reflect all of the CDC symptoms which have grown things like losing your sense of taste and smell. So now there's a broader. Those have been included. We are requiring signage for businesses, all businesses that is readable and legible and visible from a distance of 15 feet for requiring customers to wear face coverings. We have reaffirmed that we are maintaining Durham's requirement about face coverings which is stronger than the state's requirement requirements around face coverings. We are strengthening our guidelines around skilled nursing facilities and long term care facilities actually, again, maintaining a actually a stronger level, slightly stronger than what is in the governor's order. And we are also there is something in the order about understanding that governments will be creating, you know, guidelines related to CDC and the health department that will accommodate, you know, possible future in person services. And lastly, there's several waivers to our current unified development ordinance. You know, one that pertains to waving certain parts of our building permit process, if the facility involves something that's cove it related. And another one is to address the needs of our colleges and universities. Right now we already know that Duke University is going to have possibly more students on campus without their study abroad programs, they are going to be moving some of their students into hotels and apartments off campus where they will actually have the operation and maintenance of those facilities. And in those particular cases, where a university or college is going to maintain management, follow CDC guidelines and have a cove a plan in place. We are also waving aspects of our UDO that relates to requirements around around unrelated people living together. And that is, I think I covered most of those amendments. And I just want to add a quick few things to update everyone on the county side. Things that are happening around our homeless shelter. We have moved everybody out of the Marriott at RTP. We ended that contract. And now we have moved. It's about 50 people back into urban ministries, which is about half of our capacity, so that we can maintain social distancing. We have our, you know, the city and county staff have worked so, so hard on this, and with community members to find solutions, but we, they have, they're moving. We have a solution where some folks are now being moved into another hotel. And also, we have a great model pilot that is happening where we are working with a local landlord, who is willing to rent out some of their duplexes that will also specifically serve for people who may be COVID positive. And also with the second hotel that we have obtained, a smaller hotel, again, is going to be for medically fragile people who are maybe leaving the hospital or they need to recover or isolate. So, this is a really big step for us to do this. We've had some positive cases in the shelter urban ministries, which you may have heard about. Those are being, you know, contained and isolated feeding efforts. We've, we continue to get volunteers from our community through the triangle nonprofit and leadership center. Our masks distribution the county had received 100,000 masks from FEMA, and we have already distributed about 20,000 masks to nonprofits in the community. We still have about 80,000 left, which is great. But we want to get the word out to nonprofits about this incredible resource. And there's a way it's on the county website and to be able to apply for those free masks. And also want to mention that, which may you may have seen in the news that our staff is working very closely with the Department of Public Safety around a pilot hotel that will be for people who have finished their prison terms in the state and need to quarantine for 14 days or are in the middle of their quarantine on their way back home to their, to their families. And so they are our staff. And the hardest part of that effort is working very closely with DPS on on that plan, which will be starting later on this month. Honestly, I just want to say, and I may have mentioned this before, but our board is funding a really exciting project called the bulls initiative where we're trying to focus on getting funding and EDA grant to help train people, retrain people who may be out of work from this pandemic and be able to get them into the great biopharma and life sciences jobs that we have in RTP and Trayburn and other parts of our community. And with that, I will turn it over to the mayor for additional other really positive news that we will talk about today other things that are rolling out this week. Thank you. Thank you very much, Wendy. And great summary of the I think some really important things. I have a couple of things I want to mention. We're going to hear from our chairs a little bit later about a couple of our two new websites that are very exciting. I'm not going to steal their thunder. But I just want to, I want to just give you a hint so that you'll be interested in what they have to say later because we have some really great things rolling out. There are a couple of things that I want to just put forward that are happening that Wendy hasn't mentioned yet one of them is the right now. I believe by Monday all this Monday money should be out. The Carolina Small Business Development Fund has vetted 132 applications for the for the grant program. 78 of those have been approved. And so the first $585,000 in grants to small businesses is going to be distributed by early next week some of the money's already out. The grant size is around $7500. And as you all remember these are for the smaller businesses and the and the maximum grant is $10,000. And there's a lot of good news associated with that 78 businesses and of those 78 businesses. So four of the 78 are minority owned and 48 are women owned and 37 of the businesses almost half are low income owners and three are veteran owned. So this is really good. So let me start and and I want to thank our friends at Duke, who funded this grant program, and also the city of Durham which has funded the administration of it. And the Carolina Small Business Development Fund which is done, done an excellent job. This means there's $415,000 still left in this fund. The, the 54 applications that were denied were denied for various reasons some of them, you know, for example, six of the businesses weren't in Durham that apply. There were a lot of the people who were denied who the staff of the Carolina Small Business Development Fund feels like if they go back and work with them some could become elder. And so the next step is to be working with those groups and to increase the number that are able to access the funds. And then with the remaining funds there will be a second application period. It hasn't been decided exactly when this will happen yet and there will be additional outreach that goes along with that. Great. The, the second, the loan fund, which is funded by the city and county has gone slower as you might expect. And I believe now there are I think they're, I may have these numbers not quite right, but I believe there were 22 applications in several have been denied a couple have been approved and I think around 10 are still in the vetting process. The expectation of our staff is that the loan fund is going to be available for a longer time into the fall. And we had good conversations about this with our some of our staff yesterday. And also with Kevin Dick from the Carolina Small Business Development Fund and so we can expect that this program will continue and the loans are available up to $35,000. I'll give you a quick update on that. And that's, again, I think that's that's really good news and I'm glad that we're we're rolling the money out. I wanted to give a word of support to our Durham public schools. Several of us met with Superintendent Mubanga and Dr Julius Monk. Yesterday and heard their detailed plans. And Dr I can buy us on the call and I thought that what she said was very significant which was this should not be a an issue for contention or criticism. There is no perfect plan for the roll out of people going back to school. And I thought that her point was very important. There is no perfect plan. We are going to our school system has done a very, very thoughtful job. I'm really impressed and rod was on the call and our chairs were on the call as well. And I think that we heard a very, very impressive body of work by our school super by our school superintendent and the system to get us ready. We're going to be bumpy. There is no good way for this to happen that everything's just perfect. This is going to be an imperfect school year and I think we all have to live with that but I want the school system to know that they have my support for this plan. And anyway that we can be helpful. We want to be. And then finally I just want to mention our budget priorities. I think that I have the ones that I want to mention at this moment, but the importance of this going forward. We're going to talk some today about this but we really need that task force to help us figure out what are our budget priorities that we want to take the city and the county to our city council and our county commission to get funded. And we're going to need you all to help us with priorities. And we're going to need you all to help us with our budget. So, I'm looking forward to that work and very appreciative of everything that the task forces. Finally, I want to give one shout out. Our minutes have been taken every week that we meet by our city clerk's office and I see city clerk Diana Shriver is on today. The members of our clerk staff have been on each time during the minutes, sharing the burden, and I just want to express my gratitude for them for this behind the scenes work which is so valuable to us. So, thank you are to our chairs appreciate the opportunity to report. Thank you very much Mayor shul and share Jacobs for your updates. I will move us along to a couple of other items that we have on our agenda, and the first being the meeting with the Durham public schools so I think Mayor shul and share Jacobs cover that but I just want to reiterate. It's very encouraging to hear from the Durham public school representatives, the well thought out plan that they have put together. And when you have a conversation with someone and they're able to talk about their plan a their plan B and their plan C. Mayor shul tells you that they've spent a great deal of time planning as a task force, I think we can support their efforts and support their efforts by making sure that people understand their plan. And I won't sit here and try and share the plan with you guys but Mayor shul made a very good point on yesterday and we're actually going to have them come in to a task force meeting as we get closer to the opening of the schools. So the task force can understand their plan holistically and so that we can support the plan because as Mayor shul mentioned, there's no perfect plan. Everyone's not going to like this plan but I think when people understand what they're trying to do with this plan. Whether you like it or not, you'll be able to support the plan. So overall we had a great discussion. There is a lot of interaction questions from them questions from us. So hopefully the task force can rally behind what the Durham public school system is trying to do to keep the students, the staff in our community safe. So I will also give an update from the vulnerable populations team from this week that our team met again on Tuesday and continues to make really good progress again. Chair Jacobs did a great job of giving an overview of the work around our homeless population and those community members and how we're working to rally around them and be able to support through this time. So I won't spend a lot of time there but we did certainly discuss that at length at our meeting this week. And then also focused in on testing and the continued work around testing I will tell you that testing by appointment is starting at Holton tomorrow. 9 to 12 on Saturdays and then Tuesdays and Thursdays from 430 to 830pm. These appointments are being made through the health department. So the health department as they are doing their contact tracing is then scheduling people who have had a known exposure for testing in this. And this is, these are some of the testing sites for that that testing. I'm excited to get started with that at the same time Lincoln has really expanded its testing and is now at, I believe 200 tests today is that right, Phil. And with the ability to overtime ramp up to about 300 tests per day so a lot of good content really good continued work in that area. We talked quite a bit about the continued outreach to our Latinx community and then very exciting news. Our face covering distribution in the first two days of the distribution of the face coverings from the county has. We distributed 20,000 of those, you'll recall we have over 100,000 of them, but 20,000 in two days out to nonprofits to be further distributed so. Again, really good progress there. Matisha, did you want to do back on the bowl or did you want me to go into back on the ball. So go ahead. All right. So, again, really exciting and thanks to Ryan and Mariel and McKinney. We have done a soft launch of our back on the bull campaign this week we will do a more formal launch next week. But this website is up, it is up and running. I would ask that what you want to say. I would ask that all of us encourage those that we know who are business owners to please participate in this, it is a great tool, it's a great resource. And that voluntary certification process, we think will be really valuable. A lot of really good resources and just a tremendous amount of work that's gone into this. We're excited about that launch this week. And the website looks absolutely great. As I think about, you know, the times that we're in and you go to the website, and now I can't say it feels good to be in a pandemic but as you look at the website it's like wow this is kind of cool. And so it brings some light to some of this darkness that we've been living in for a while. Also, another website that we just, I say we using that term very loosely. But the Durham has you covered website just got launched and I would encourage you guys to go take a look at that website. That website features various minority owned and women vendors that are selling face coverings and so even if you don't need face coverings I think if you go onto this website and just look at the options that we currently have out there. I would also like to see that we have that type of support in our Durham community so please take the time to take a look if you have it, and please make sure that you're encouraging folks to go to the website. If they're in need of face coverings. And then Ryan just does did mention in the chat that this will be in Spanish by the end of the day as well the website will be in Spanish by the end of the day. Excellent. Since we have been operating for about 50 days, I can I don't have to call rod by rod I can say now I'm going to turn it over to the metrics man. Good morning to everyone happy over the 50 days celebration to everyone. And I too thank you for your hard work and your dedication and by extension being public health champions and helping us along the journey. We're off with just in US overview. We hit that shredded mark of being over 3 million in cases of COVID. Clearly, a bark that we didn't want to hit, however, we continue to move forward. In 32,000 debt. I'm sorry, debts in US within the great state of North Carolina were over 79,000 very close to 80,000 cases of COVID, resulting in relatively low 1461 deaths. In Durham County we currently have 465 active cases, 3826 inactive cases, meaning our Durham might have been discharged and recovered from COVID. We sit at 67 deaths slightly up from the last time we met, and bringing us to a grand total of 4359 total cases of COVID. I'm happy to report that we have committed to about 8,548 contacts have been made through Durham County and CCNC, our contact tracing efforts continue to be strong and robust. I'll go a little bit into that a little bit later on. But there's a headline and Susan always holds me to the headlines. I would say it's Durham whole steady positive rates and Latinx communities decrease and behaviors matter. I think that's worth repeating Durham whole steady positive rates and Latinx communities decrease behaviors matter. This is a weekly reflection for you all in your consideration. We continue to do well for the week that we did not meet our seven day average did truly dip down to about 59. Last week and the previous week was 67 so we're certainly seeing some ink, some, some, some improvement. However, the seven day moving average for last week was 72. So again, we still have work to do we're holding steady we're working strong. Again, on Monday, July the sixth there was 4173 cases and that represent approximately 907 cases increased from last week. And of course that that means that's the total number of cases as myself and doc doc and we always say that's just definitely going to increase by virtue of the numbers just continuing to go up. But again, we look forward to the day where the seven day moving average continues to go down. So far in the month of July, there are 430 cases new cases. So, while North Carolina trajectory of lab confirmed cases continues to increase. So does Durham trajectory of lab to their lab confirmed cases. However, we are seeing improvements. I always want to speak on race and ethnicity. So far in July, half of our cases, and I stress half are among the Hispanic Latinx individuals. And we represent at present 50%, as you can recall the last time we met, it was as close as 80 to 77%. So we're making improvements and big big shout out to Pilar and her group, as well as Lincoln and the vulnerable populations task force we're doing a great job. We're making a difference, it may not seem like it but we're doing very well, but we still have a long way to go, because our Latinx Durham might only represent 14% of our of our total population. We are like an African American, they're sitting at 26.8% of all cases, while representing 37% Durham County residents. We are keeping a close for close I, and I'll go a little bit in the detail in that a little bit later on. The number of white individuals a Durham ice continue to be very underrepresented with 22.5% of all of our cases being in this population, while they represent 54% about overall population. As far as work race, ethnicity and sex again so far in July. We have a new employer that's kind of come to the forefront per our data. We have strong numbers for those who are unemployed, but those people who are working in hospitals are being seen in our data and contact traces are tending to contact those individuals who are hospital workers, and then we continue to see people who are working in construction as well. 65.5% of our cases are associated with unemployment. Again, they were Hispanic or Latinx and 74.5% of them were female. 46.7% of our cases are associated with hospitals, and they were the black or African American community in Durham, representing 56.7% of females. 75.3% of our cases are associated with construction work settings, and they were of the Hispanic or Latinx community and 96.5% are male. So we'll work continues around the construction and all of these different trades. As far as the zip codes and mapping within Durham proper, the zip code 27704 in the eastern part of the county still has the highest case rate at 20.88 per 1000 individuals. And just be reminded 27704 covers the eastern stretches of Hamlin Road, Gears Street, Cheek Road, and also includes parts of Bragg Town, Colonial Village, and Merrick Moore neighborhoods. So we're seeing improvements in the zip code of 27703. I think for the past month or so I've grouped the both of those zip codes inside our watch list, if you will, but that's showing signs of improvement and we're certainly delighted about that. So additional notes for you all in your consideration per Duke University's model which we receive approximately every two week. North Carolina's growth continues at 1.9% and Durham's growth is the same at 1.9%. Over the past week North Carolina infections have grown 16%, whereas Durham's infections have grown 5 percentage points late less at 11%. Their model also includes a seven day average and they made sure to note that they're seeing a slightly downward trend from a high of 78 last month. So again, it's great to continue to collaborate with them. As mentioned, one of our key metrics is our positivity rate and I also like to highlight the small victory that we receive. A temporary order has gone to affect mandating that all labs, I stress all labs, are to report both positive and negative test results throughout the state of North Carolina. A huge win. Again, I cannot thank Mayor Hsu and Chair Jacobs enough for advocating for this. I truly believe that their input toward the Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen, and the governor himself Roy Cooper were instrumental in making that happen. So myself and 84 other health directors, we thank you. Statewide order for COVID testing also went out from the state health director Dr. Betsy Tillson. That should garner more activity. So that means that there's, there's going to be a whole lot more diagnostic COVID testing going on, and they don't need a physician's order. I mean, this is something that's just huge. So again, Durham should also hear directly from a vendor to set up free testing and areas with high positivity rates and historically marginalized populations. I'm still waiting to hear that because Durham was listed as one of the, what the state calls op nine or operation nine counties. So that means that we don't have to wait on the state the vendor is going to contact us directly. And I most certainly have those targeted areas through conversations with Reverend Davis and a number of different individuals from the Latin 19 coalition. I'm just waiting to hear back from them. And once I hear from that vendor, I will be in touch with these advocates to, to make sure that we can begin the mass community testing. As Katie so eloquently said, Holton testing site comes online to Saturday. We're so delighted to partner with Duke in managing and ensuring that we are able to get individuals in that particular section of Eastern tested on Saturdays Tuesdays and Thursdays. So we look forward to continuing a positive trend of activity with their. We are finalizing some additional contracts ladies and gentlemen, with a lab testing vendor that specializes in community testing. And our aim is definitely to increase community testing in partnership with, as I for mentioned, pay the faith based community Latin 19 advocates and continue to target the zip codes of 7703 to 7704 and the state also asked us to target zip code to 7701. I cannot emphasize enough that behavior modification doing cove it is needed. I did participate in the round table with superintendent Mbenga and Dr Julius bunk, who I've also maintained a great relationship and communication with throughout the whole cove it experience. For the most part they have a great plan in place, and I certainly expect our school health nurses to step up to the challenge and make sure that our babies and students and teens and pre teams are safe, but it's worth repeating, and I hope you all will bear with me for just a few seconds. COVID-19 continues to be a disease in which there is no cure. There's no vaccine. There's no prevention or meaningful medical remedy at this time. Once you get it the only thing that can remedy or relief our supportive therapies. The number one weapon we have to fight this disease is classic good old fashioned public health measures. You all should notice and I'm saying you all to the Durham community and those under the sound of my voice and remind everyone that you know about this. I think sometimes we get COVID fatigue and every so often it's worth reminding about the true facts of COVID. There is no vaccine at this time. As mentioned about schools, those of us around the round table who are parents, we're certainly concerned. And the last point I will make is that the choices that you make right now on July 10 will affect the ability of our students to safely return to the classrooms approximately around August 17. You can't flip the switch on August 15. We have to practice these behaviors right now. So we're talking utilizing face coverings, washing your hands, practicing the three W's social distancing yourself. It's important because again, these things are going to be drilled down to our students. So you might as well hear from me, because I can promise you you're going to hear from your babies. With that being said, I'll turn it back over to our chairs. And if I can add, first of all, thank you, Rod. You always do such a phenomenal job with sharing the metrics and giving us such a thorough update. Mayor Schuyl did ask me to provide a brief update in addition as part of the metrics on our hospitalizations and I'm happy to do that. So today, currently we are at 90% occupancy between Duke University Hospital and Duke Regional Hospital. We have a total between the two hospitals of 1223 patients in our hospitals as inpatients. We currently have 63 positive COVID positive patients that we are caring for 23 of those in our ICUs. I'm happy to answer any questions about that. Can I ask one? So how would you characterize the sort of qualitatively the situation in our hospitals, you know, we hear from Houston and other places that so many of the hospitals are being overrun with cases. And other other places where there's fear of that. What would you say is the situation that we're in, you know, 90% occupancy 63 positive cases 23 ICU cases. Is that threatening to us? You know, how would you describe our situation? Yeah, I think, you know, we are managing at this point. We are concerned about the increases that we have seen. Certainly in cases in the community and then in hospitalizations, we have seen increases in the last few weeks and in those hospitalizations. And so between across all three hospitals this week, we were at 90 or above. And that includes Duke Raleigh Hospital in Wake County, which I didn't include in this count and calculation since we're specifically discussing Durham. So I would say we are managing. We have plans to be able to manage, but it's not without its challenges. This is, and one of the challenges in caring for COVID patients is that it just simply takes more staff. And so even where we have physical bed space and physical bed capacity, it's making sure that we have the staff that we need to be able to safely take care of our patients and we are working on that. Every day we do have the staff now, but we are, and we are working on bringing in and recruiting very, very aggressively recruiting additional team members to be able to help us, knowing that again, this is, this is, but a point in time. The numbers I'm sharing with you today, but COVID is not going away anytime soon. So unfortunately, and so we're looking and planning out. You know, we can't plan out on this, I think six months, but we are certainly looking and projecting out a month, two months and what we think we are going to need in terms of that staffing and that bed capacity. So we have levers that we can adjust. So, and if we need to make those adjustments to be able to accommodate this volume. So I would say, we are not at the position that we're hearing out of our, our colleagues in Houston, for example, and certainly not at the position that we heard from our colleagues in New York City, where the situation was so dire. We are by no means at that point. And I feel very fortunate that we're not, but we want to make sure that we don't get to that point right because that that means we're really in a crisis point for our community so everything that we can do to reinforce the basics of infection prevention as Rod said, you know, where are those face coverings, wash those hands, maintain social distancing, safer at home, disinfecting of high touch areas or surfaces. And those are all the basics that every one of us has the ability to impact today, and we need to. We need to all be paying attention to that and reinforcing that with everyone we know. Maybe if I, if I could. I'm sorry about chair just wanted to make sure I added one more thing. I know every so often there's, we definitely touched on testing, but every so often there's some concern or questions about contact tracing. And I just want to remind a group and during proper is that we started off with our project with with CCNC and their contact tracers. We started out towards June 6 prior to that we had approximately 20 in house contact tracers who have since been converted to what we consider to be contact investigators. Since that time, we've worked tirelessly with CCNC and I'm proud to report that we have approximately 55 contact tracers through CCNC. We're really keeping our, keeping our focus on contact tracing, making sure that we hone the tool that they have. But I think bigger news I'd like to report is that we are exploring a partnership with Matisha's very own Blue Cross Blue Sheep. And they have expressed an attitude towards service, and they are concerned, and they have a army, small army of nurses and professionals who think it not robbery to commit to community service in Durham County. So we met with them yesterday afternoon, and we still have some homework assignments, but it looks very promising. And the same way that we were able to bring on to PA students to help us with contact tracing. We're hoping to do the very same thing with them. So I just wanted to provide that update as well. That's fabulous. Thank you. Thanks to you and thanks to Matisha as well. Wow. That's terrific. Yeah, that's great news, Rod. And thank you. You are just pushing all the time. I really appreciate all of your efforts every day. Katie, I just want to, it's really great to get this hospital capacity report from you and I'm wondering if we could have this be part of our weekly roundtable update and also if this could be possibly incorporated into the data hub for public health. This is actually one of the, one of the questions that I heard at the restaurant roundtable. This is one of the data points that that I heard that people would really like to be able to see. Do you think that's possible? Yeah, I think that's probably possible. We can certainly take a look at how we would do that. Absolutely. Certainly I can give an update here every week. The one caution I would provide on this is that, you know, our hospitals run full, ran full before COVID. So again, if you look at that sort of proportion of number of COVID positive patients to the overall number of patients that we have in the hospital, so 63 of our 1223 patients, our hospitals run full anyway. And that is the challenge that we run up against when we're talking about hospital capacity, right? And it's not like the other, you know, 1150 patients are not sick patients who need hospital care. They are very sick patients who need hospital care. So that's that balance we come up against. But certainly I can provide that update weekly and I'll be happy to work with Rod and see how we might incorporate that into the data hub. And I can give an update on that. Right. And maybe with Dr. Acaboya just thinking about what would be the key data points related to hospitalization. So maybe is it just, you know, number of people who are COVID positive who are in the hospital. How many people, how many of those are in the ICU? What is the ventilator capacity? You know, I think people just wanting to know, again, thinking about what's happening in other places and also our PPE capacity, right, for our hospitals that at certain points that has been a really critical issue. It does concern me that one of the trends that Rod mentioned is that health, we're seeing an increase in healthcare workers being COVID positive. So, you know, understanding what is that part of increased hospitalizations or whatever. I don't know. And I think the point that Rod has made and Dr. Acaboya and that I think one of the themes is that, you know, the everybody's behavior everywhere counts. So people may be very careful when they're working at their jobs at a camp or as in a school or in a restaurant, but what are people doing when they're at home or with their family members or even their friends. We've seen that with the Latinx community when people are having lunch or driving to work. Sometimes it's the more informal situations where we have to reinforce people's behavior, but you know, the outcome is as Rod says, some of these concerning trends. Yeah, I'm happy to share that, you know, certainly we are working very hard to reinforce the importance of we require a face covering at work. So, unless you're in an office behind closed doors as I am right now. So, the moment someone either knocks on my door, or I walk out that door I have a face covering. I have a hospital issued face mask on. And that is a requirement to even enter the hospital for a visitor or for an employee. But we are really reinforcing the importance of that outside of the hospital as well. Because we all need reminders on that. I want to make just one comment. Happy to help with understanding some of the hospitalization numbers. But I don't necessarily think it's a reflection of lack of PPE at this point. I think if community prevalence goes up. We as a community work in the hospitals and so we will see hospital. Well, we will see more infections amongst healthcare workers because we all live in community together. And what we do within the community when you're with family, friends, preferably kind of staying within the closed set and staying in your households, I think if that's what we're seeing with the shift in the higher numbers of infections and healthcare workers. We cannot say that the risk of acquiring COVID-19 in the hospital is zero. But we have a lot of PPE to ensure that we're preventing that. And we'll continue to monitor that situation and can report on it if it becomes urgent. Thank you for adding that. Yes, we do not have any shortage of PPE at all. It's really diligent. Our supply chain team has worked with us. Just done heroic work to make sure that we have what we need and what that our team members have what they need at the bedside to be able to provide safe care. Katie. Listening to you. I was struck by the idea that we've been, we've sort of been trained to look at hospital capacity bed beds period, but you were talking about staff. The, and the recruitment challenges, is there anything. Is there anything we can do to help with that in terms of the attractiveness of Durham and that kind of thing, or, I mean, you know, I think Durham is covered. I think Durham is very attractive. And we have been very successful in our recruitment. We are always in recruitment mode. That is, that is part of hospitals. There is, you know, there's a nursing shortage. Nationally, we actually do very well here. And I think a part of that is a reflection of Durham and the triangle being such a wonderful place to live. So, I would say the, the one thing that, you know, anyone here who knows knows nurses who may have an interest are not currently working within our health system and has an interest. Certainly, I am more than happy to have them directed directly to me refer directly to me and I'll, I'll pass that information along to our HR team but it's just something that we have to keep our eye on all the time and and stay ahead of that. But thank you for asking that. Katie, this is Lois my question regarding the hospitalizations. All of these local people are any patients being sent here from other surrounding areas. All local so that's a really good point and that's that's one of the reasons that Duke University Hospital in particular is always at capacity, because Duke University Hospital is a major academic medical center and referral center. And frankly Duke regional we get referrals from all over the state and beyond, because of our capabilities so. And that's the fact that, you know, that we're part of the Duke health system so no these are not all necessarily local. Which is which is hard. Go ahead. No, I'm sorry to tell you I didn't want to interrupt there but to add to that point and that's why we probably have to be cautious about how we use the hospitalization numbers, because ultimately, Duke is mostly full and I think most of our colleagues and our co hospitals around the region will function at a capacity that's mostly full and patients shuttle around. So you may not always be reflective of the Durham community, but it may speak to you how much capacity we have if there's a sudden surge. Are there other questions on that. Other questions for Rod, before we move into the discussion of the budget that Matisha is going to lead us through. All right, Matisha. All right here and none. So may or should we'll talk a little bit about the importance of us close together a budget and really prioritizing what we need funds for so we really need to very quickly. Figure out that process and as I think we realized throughout our duration together. We were figuring these things out together so we don't have a defined process yet. But as we think about a budget process, I think it's very important for us to align with one of our guiding principles. But we need to move this forward with a sense of urgency to compile these budget request and go through a process to prioritize these budget request. We also need to be mindful, as we pull together budget request that we have the ability to tap into other resources. So other resources to help us continue to donate their time. Other resources that may be able to donate funds to us. We don't want to forget about those resources as we think about pulling together a budget process. As we think about pulling together request, there's two more of our guiding principles that I think we need to stay aligned with. We need to make sure that when we are putting forward a request that we're applying a racially equity lens and we are trying to come up with a framework to address the widening disparities that's caused by COVID-19. We also need to be mindful that when we're putting forward something that we're requesting funds for, that it's being guided by our public health experts and we are being responsive to the needs of the people and the businesses that are directly impacted. So those are two things that I think we need to keep in mind. And we also need to keep in mind as we think about budget request, think about our role as a task force. Our role, our primary purpose is to advise Mayor Shull and Chair Jacobs as they make, as key decisions are being made on how we proceed with recovery and renewal and Durham. So any request that comes forward should very much align with our purpose and demonstrate that we are trying to do just that. I'll make sure that we are opening or continuing to expand things that we've opened in a safe manner. So what I want to do at this point is actually have Susan walk us through a budget request that's been put together by the communications team, a great budget request that I might add. And then after that we can spend some time talking about as a task force or there are other items that are top and top of mind that you already think that we possibly may need some funding for. So Susan, I'll turn it over to you. I'll be happy to and what I'd like to do is share my screen if that's alright, and take you through a very brief. Let's see. Very brief presentation that I think lays this out. Can you all see that. Yes. Okay. All right. So here are a few principles for you all to know about what we've done and sort of layout where we are from a communication standpoint. Looking at this. First of all, we've been able to as as Matisha was talking about looking at what other resources are available. We have pulled everything that we can together from a volunteer or contribution basis so all of the creative production, which is largely thanks to the Center for Advanced Hindsight and McKinney, and a graphic designer on the city's team. The media planning and buying all the direct communications like email that's going out to all the roundtables and we'll go out to all the business sectors. All of those things are provided pro bono by the various organizations involved. And where we get stuck is if we don't pay for media placement. All of this work doesn't really go very far. We looked at what the reach would be of all of our collective social media channels that we could potentially tap for this and we can get maybe as far as 50,000 people. And that's not something we could sustain on a weekly basis. If we want to, if we're committed to getting this out into all these communities, there has to be some paid media behind it. And we recognize that no one wants to spend money on paid media right now. So what we did was we put together a plan. And we recognize this might be the Cadillac and what we can afford to do is something less than that that's fine it's just a matter of we need to we need to look at this in the eye and figure out what we want to do. So our recommended plan is about establishing widespread awareness and really pointing businesses and residents to the new website the back on the website where they can get the education information so there's the room, the communication messaging does a few things that reminds people to wear masks it creates awareness for the whole effort but it also really focuses on pointing website. So we've designed a plan so that can be very flexible it's broken into three different phases. And we recognize that we may completely rewrite this plan at any point if we need to depending on what's going on in the community. So phase one, and there was a phase one and then we made it to phase one a based on our conversation, I think that was Monday. We didn't need we need to launch this now that we have the website ready to go. We need to be able to launch it into the community and we know that we really need to focus on reaching the Hispanic community, and Polar has done a fabulous job of setting up those relationships and providing the insight on where exactly to focus those media buys. And we'd also like to be in outdoor in bus advertising, for example, we would be in social media, and we would do a bit of print. The first one of the first things we'd like to do is put out a full page in the ad. And that has a wide readership and start to get some real attention. And then we want to assist businesses with signage that's something that the city has already been pursuing, printing up 100 posters that are excuse me 1000 posters that can be put out there. So the cost of doing this is $14,100. All together, we put this together and presented this to the chairs of this committee and Mayor shul and chair Jacobs and a few others to talk about this early this week. Because if we're going to launch this over the next two weeks, we have to have a decision on this right away. So we tried to carve out a small piece that would get help us start to build awareness in the market. That that one is the most important and the methodology I'll spend just a moment on these other phases to give you an idea about the scope of them. Phase one be the other piece of it was really what we would do through July and into August. And this would be expanding awareness. We'd like to use broadcasts if you really want to reach everyone in Durham, you've got to go to broadcast media at some point along the way TV and radio. We need to and where we can get great deals on media and get our partners to come on board and provide some great rates we certainly would do that. Billboard advertising is another way. You'll see a number of things about outdoor advertising because the nature of a lot of the people the essential workers are out in the community, outdoor advertising is a good way to reach them. We know that public transportation has been a point of concern about the potential for that spreading the virus and we want to make sure that people on public transportation see things also. We are going to be using video search engine marketing that will direct traffic to the website and then we've got a few things that we'd like to do like coasters that restaurants can use that remind people to wear a mask for example or stickers or pen so we've got a little bit in there for that. This phase one B as you can see is $80,000 phase two is would be September and October. This is just continuing the messaging and expanding things that are working and we will adjust things that aren't working. We put about 110,000 into that phase and then November and December so the totality of this campaign takes us through the end of December. Like I said, we will continually change this up and pivot. As needed throughout the campaign. Does anybody have questions you'd like to ask you. I'm sorry about one thing I'll say is in the there was a link in the briefing materials to the full communications plan I think it's about a 10 page word documents so if you are interested in a lot of details about the media plans for example you can see more details there. All right, thank you so much Susan. So again any questions for Susan on this plan before we move on. Let me just comment briefly. You mentioned I think when we talked about the comms plan that the way Susan has gone about doing this budget to set a very high standard is very thoughtful and very details. And so I think that that's so helpful, and it sets a real good standard for when we think about the rest of our process. I wanted to say that the city manager is on vacation this week I'm trying to let him be on vacation. We're not hassling him about all kinds of things. But Susan, I am in, I will, I got your email and will be in touch with him today about the, the request for the 14,000. And we'll have some, some quick discussions with him at the beginning of next week. Thank you for that. And we can be in touch about Susan. Okay, thank you. Yeah. Okay, so again as we think about the budget process and I think what mayor she'll set a spot on Susan and team has set a very high standard. And I appreciate that because I think anytime that you're you're dealing with money, you want to make sure that you have the appropriate information that you need to make a good decision. So as I think about us moving forward and trying to get additional requests. We're going to try and quickly work up just a few key points that we want to be included in every request and I think I will go back to just making sure that in the request it clearly articulates how the request aligns with our guidance principles and our overall purpose. I like how Susan just presented this information and presented. So what's immediate I think it's important for us to understand in any budget request, what is the immediate need. And I would say, you know, when you lay out the immediate need be able to articulate. So what bad thing happens if we don't fund this immediate need so that we just kind of understand what are the implications. Like how Susan and team laid out the timing because I think the timing is very important because any budget requests won't need to be funded necessarily on day one, it could be spread over over a period of time. So I know Ryan has committed to help us trying to get something built out that we can share pretty soon. I just want to open it up to the task force to talk about any items that are top of mind for you, as you've worked with the various roundtables as you've worked on the various things that you've been involved in. Are there any items that are top of mind for you that you just want to share. I wanted to make one comment just in general which is, as we make this budget I think we really need to coordinate closely with the Emergency Operations Center. So I think for example, the Emergency Operations Center has what we would call a roundtable but it's really through them about food security. And they're going to have some budget needs. And so, you know, Jody's here, and it's in touch close touch with all those groups. So, you know where does a quarantine hotel fall in our budget. Where does what what other food security needs are there that need to be part of it so I just wanted to mention that as we go forward to, to that. We would include the EOC and their working groups in our, in our, in our budget request and kind of make this a holistic kind of thing. And this is when I just want to jump in on what the mayor said, I think it even is to the point that and Jody is actually the perfect person she's really our expert on the CARES Act funding. And that is also important that the budget requests are we try to align them with what we know is reimbursable funding for for from FEMA or through the CARES Act or through other state or federal funding. So it may mean that the way that we even kind of language that we use around these, these budget requests, if we can tailor them to what we know is is reimbursable funding is also going to be important so I, I agree with the the mayor that the community be involved, and especially Jody and Jody I don't know if you have any comments about how we look at these funding proposals or budget requests. Mayor Marshall and Chair Jacobs, you were both reading my mind because it really struck me that as we talk about each of these strategies we'd be thinking about it as sort of a holistic broader community aspect and making sure we're understanding the financial needs and responsibilities and how we pay for these things is going to be very important. The other thing I was also thinking about in terms of the media and communication plan is, we have a very robust public information strategy through the emergency operations center and working with public health and wanting to make sure that there's collaboration and alignment with any communication strategy that we're doing together so that we're making sure we're targeting the appropriate communities and that we're sharing resources and information and so that we're reaching out to those areas of the community that are most in need but also sort of the larger community as well. So we can, we can work together on this as we continue to better understand what our needs are and what the financial requirements will be. Any other thoughts or comments about the process, things that we should take into consideration as we move forward. Things again that you've already given some thought to. I have a question. So this was presented and this was great with what Susan presented. What happens, she's presented. She said that she would like that she would need $74,000 spread over six months. Does the task force discuss it or, I mean, what what's the next step for Susan. Is there a budget? I mean, is there a limit so that, you know, by September we know there was $200,000 and we only have 15,000 left or is it kind of a never ending budget which, wow, that'd be awesome. How do we do that. But I'm just curious because it seems like she's presented and I'm really not sure what she's going to what what we're going to get to push this out to the public and then if someone else comes what's that what's the steps. Great question, Nicole. And thank you for asking that question. So in the house you present the information and as Susan mentioned, there was a meeting earlier this week where KDI Mayor shul chair Jacobs went through the actual plan. What she's included is an item that needs immediate funding and I think that was about $14,000 and I think that's the item that Mayor shul said he was going to reach out to the city manager to see if we can get funding for that immediate need, but everything that's else that's in here is going to go through the budget process because again we need to prioritize things. And, you know, as I'm thinking out loud, but it's probably not going to be a task force that comes together to go through the budget request because I think that would be a heavy lift for all of us to try and go through this budget request, but it's probably going to be a small group of people that go through the budget request and hit on all of the items that we just talked about and then come forward with a prioritized budget to say task force. This is what we're planning to move forward with to make sure that we are all aligned with our path forward. In a sense, it does. Is there like a deadline that you have to get things in so that you're on that list. Understanding that we don't know what November might look like compared to today. So, so things could so drastically change. So is there, you know, must submit things by this date or not. That's what we're trying to define Nicole. We're trying to get some dates that we're trying to understand when will we need to present the budget to the Savior County and work backwards from that date. We haven't gotten clear definition on that. But the way I think about it Nicole is our current plan and we're going to see if we can pull this off is to possibly send out some information this upcoming week to say if you've had a budget need. Let's go ahead and work on getting that turned back over to us and maybe give about a week to turn that around. So at least we have the information because it's going to take us a little bit of time. I'm not saying weeks to get through the information to distill it down to what we think may be a priority. And so that's why I say we need to move forward with a sense of urgency. I wish I could say by this date I need this from everyone, but I don't want to put false dates out there until I get better clarity around. When do we have to present the budget that we need to a body for their approval or disapproval. Okay. And the thought is that it would go to both the city and the county or one or the other formal presentation to in order to move these initiatives coming out of the task force. This is what we're requesting and then the city and the county elected bodies would decide. That is correct. That is correct. And again, I missed that a couple of meetings ago I missed it but thank you for clarifying. Now, and again, because we don't have those specific dates yet. Our ultimate goal is and I think I've heard this from your show you mentioned it at our last meeting which was two weeks ago that we need to really get moving on this with a sense of urgency. We need to really position ourselves to do the work and have something ready. I just want to make sure that we're ready to push this forward, regardless of the date that we find out so we're not going to sit and wait and figure out okay. We won't be able to take this forward until some date in the future I want us just to be prepared to go and keep this moving. So they are immediate needs that we have. There may be a way that the task force can rally and try and figure out are there other options to get funding for some of our immediate needs. Thanks. Appreciate that. You're welcome. Thanks for your thoughts. Alright, so hearing none and again we will continue to work on this and communicate iterate and share with you, you know how this is shaping up and share with you what we need from you to help support the process. All right, then I will turn it to Katie to do the round table update. Great. Thank you so much. All right, so I think you have the round table updates in your packet. And I hope everyone's had a chance to review those. I'm going to ask Brian, if there are any specific highlights from this week's round tables unfortunately I was not able to participate in any of the round tables this week but I know many others here did so would love to hear any specific requests coming forward to the task force that that we need to be considering at this point. Morning everyone. I'm sorry my audio is kind of going in and out but thanks for all the good work you're doing. We had some continued conversation great conversations in the round tables and the ability to drill down on specific issues to different industries. I think the one big theme I just want to go ahead and throw out there and then certainly am available to answer questions is, I don't know how the states numbers are going to continue to look as the potential to move towards additional phases at the state level, but for those industries who are in a phasing situation like fitness centers, I think they're interested in some indication of whether Durham might expect to be in sync with the rest of the state. Whenever that announcement comes, or if we may continue to operate on somewhat of a delay. So I just kind of ask to lift up that question and and then certainly available to answer additional questions. Thank you for that question I think I think that's an important question. I'm hearing the question around particularly those those businesses that feel like they're in limbo at this point right because they're they're waiting for phase three and not sure what when phase three may come and if phase three will be similar in Durham or or whether we will continue to to operate a little bit more cautiously. And then the other question that I think has come up is around guidance for our festivals and large events and wanting some guidance from this group around and we define a period of time through which no large gatherings would be permitted. So, we'd love to have some discussion here on and and and I'll ask Mayor shul not to put him on the spot but I'm going to put him on the spot a little bit around this. In terms of what he's thinking around that phase three guidance knowing that that may come in the next week or two. And then maybe we can have some discussion around specifically large events. Sure. I don't mind being put on the spot about that I already feel on the spot about that so no problem. I'm sure Wendy does too. I think what I'll do is rather than sort of speak to the specifics I'll speak to the process a little bit. What we do when as we anticipate the governor's orders is we consult with Rod. We consult with our public health folks we look at is Durham the same or are we trending better or worse than the state. Do we have any special conditions in Durham. Any of these businesses that might make us want to do something different. That kind of thing. And so, I can't say now, for example, what we would do about gyms, if the governor decided to open gyms, you know our first. But we place a high value on consistency with the state order, because we know that anytime we're not consistent with the state order it does cause confusion and compliance issues. So we place a high value on that. But as you know we always we haven't always done that for example we had the face coverings mandate for a couple of months before the state did. So that's the process. And, you know, we, we, we take it very seriously. We don't do anything callously. Our goal is to try to let as many things open as possible, as long as they get that can be done safely. That's our goal. Our goal is to have as many things that are safe, as possible. Thank you. Chair Jacobs, anything you wanted to add to that in terms of process. No, I think that Steve really covered it we consult with, you know, Duke. We look at, you know, the Duke data and also the county public health data, everything goes through, through Rod, I know Dr. Duke is a key expert that we rely on as well so I think it's just going to depend on our community to be honest. You know just reinforcing I think what we've all been, you know, one of the themes today. Honestly, a very big factor for our community is going to be our students from Duke and you and NCCU coming back into our community. We just saw yesterday that Orange County is going to be closing restaurants and bars at 10pm. And the reason they had to do that is because over the past month they've seen their actually their cases triple, and they're seeing a trend with, you know, young people. And I think Rod did not get into this today, but I know from his report to the emergency operations center on the multi agency call on Wednesday that what we're what we're seeing in Durham is that younger and younger people are testing positive. We have our average age now is 39 in Durham County. So it's going to be really key when we have students coming back into our community from all over the country, and even all over the world. And they are going to be living in the Durham community off campus. And their behaviors are going to really, you know, impact all of us and I think the more, and that's why I'm so excited about our let's get back on the bull campaign. And I think why Susan's request for additional support for communications is so so important, because we have this great opportunity to really, you know, pull in the whole community get everybody on board. And help everybody understand that that each of our own individual decisions and behaviors. We're not in isolation, everything that we do impact somebody else. And so, if we want to be able to move into the next phase, and, you know, my heart breaks when I sit sat on the fitness round table. And to see that who is our fitness and our gyms. They are small businesses. They are owned by minorities they're owned by women. They want to reopen. And, you know, my heart breaks for them. And so, you know, for we really need, as our students come back to understand that when they have parties and gatherings and what they how they behave is going to be really what is going to impact, you know, these what we're able to do. I think the more we can be successful with that and work together. And, and again getting back to what I think the request is around market and communication to really leverage this incredible three work that we're benefiting from from McKinney and Duke Center for advanced advanced hindsight. If we don't have the ability to really get this out into every part of our community, we're not going to get the full benefit of it. So, I guess that that's my long winded response. But thank you. Thank, thank you for that. And I do know that we are working on scheduling or have scheduled some meetings coming up with Duke University as well as NC Central to understand plans for bringing students back and and and how we bring them back into the community as well. Can I just add one comment and maybe someone can help calm my fears, because I think I hopefully heard this right that I think it was a UNC football team that got infected with COVID-19 but the football team. And the same thing has happened and this was maybe a month ago at Clemson University. The football team, the whole team, the team got infected with COVID-19. And I think that's very concerning because this is just a football team. And I understand, you know, playing football you're with your teammates and you're in close quarters probably at all times. But as you think about any college campus unless they're going to drastically change the way students are able to interact I do worry about that because we've had those two incidents that have happened. And both of those are pretty close to home. So that that's very concerning. As we think about just going back to a campus to the members of the ground table if I may just wanted to just give a couple of quick points. I have been in touch with a number of health directors throughout the state from the mountains with App State to Joshua Swift, Forsyth County with Wake Forest to Quintana Stewart with UNC. And this is something that we've been talking about probably for the past two months in anticipation of this. We have talked with several of the athletic directors and medical professionals for these universities. I personally have reviewed NC Central's overall campus. Back to school plan, but particularly with their athletics because they come back so early to begin their training. It's very comprehensive and just like we mentioned with the schools, it's not perfect. It's not. These are contact sports. We talk about anything from how they travel to games, how they work out, how they are living arrangements. And, you know, again, with this being so novel. We were just kind of given our best guess and our best effort. But nevertheless, there's a consortium of health directors that we just kind of rely on each other for best practices and just talking through different things. And there's a certain amount of relief. Now I'll end with this. There's a certain amount of relief when we hear that the Atlantic Coast Conference has decided to hold off until September 1 or Ivy League schools have decided to just shut it down completely because they too realized that, you know, you're putting lives at danger. And being a sports fanatic like I am. You know, again, you know, we want sports, we want some type of respite from all that we have going on, but we want our community and our nation at large to be safe. So, Matisha, I feel you. I understand your concerns and your fears. Personal as they may with your college student, but I totally get it. And I can speak on behalf of the schools that I've talked to they care, and they definitely don't want any harm to come to the way of kids but let's be clear ladies and gentlemen. The UNC system has said they are not going to shut down. They're going to keep going. And we just have to continue to try to support them as best we can. Thank you. I wonder if George had any comments from the perspective of team sports he is our resident expert. But I don't have a sport to worry about you know how that's going for me with with no baseball. And honestly, I think that's why why the minor leagues have gotten the shaft really is that the major league clubs didn't want to work. I want to talk about all of this in 160 different cities and towns across America with 160, you know, different situation. So, so they just threw in the towel and decided to concentrate on the on the major league sports. I actually be interested in what rod, what rod has seen, you know, my reaction about it to these football situations was those those young men probably brought that problem, brought that to campus with them as they return. And I almost, I would like to think that they're actually about to enter a much more structured environment. I realize there's some certainly some dangers, but they're about they're about to enter a structured environment with a lot more protection and a lot more focus on this and you know the ending won't be as troublesome as the beginning, but I don't, you know, I, I see both sides of this you know I wish we were playing baseball. I wish I was in a position to make a case for something big we had planned at the ballpark. I know the D pack would like to be back in business. But, you know, to me the big thing right now is, is to real to get the schools going and see what happens from that. I mean that to me is the next like colossal wave, the thing we've got to do and and and and see what happens before I would become a lobbyist for for big public events. I wouldn't feel right about it. So that's actually I think a good segue into into this discussion point about big events. And I think that our round table as I understand it the round table on festivals and large events is looking from some guidance and some direction from us. It is really challenging. Having done some event planning in in in my past it is really challenging as an event planner to be trying to plan an event I can't imagine in the midst of a pandemic where you don't know whether what's going to happen next week let alone in three months when your event is scheduled so and there are so many penalties if you don't cancel by certain dates and there are things that so many things that need to be put in place there are so many details that need to go into planning any kind of event like that so they're looking for guidance and direction. And I think would put out to this group you know, can we provide a date by which, you know, we would recommend to people and Commissioner Jacobs, there be no festivals prior to this date. So is it that prior to October 1, there would be no festivals is it that prior to, you know, do you go to January 1, but, but I don't know how we get our arms around sort of. I feel a little bit like any, any decision would be somewhat arbitrary at this point. But I think they're what I'm hearing is that they're looking for a decision, even if it is somewhat, somewhat sort of pulling this out of out of thin air in terms of a date, because they have to be able to plan I don't know Susan if you probably you are so much closer to this than I am. Yes, well you've laid it out really well but you're exactly right and given that Wake County made the announcement a few days ago that they are they're going to cancel all events and festivals and things through the end of October. It raised the question here. In some ways it does make it easier even though no one likes to contemplate that we won't have events. Even that far out, it does make it somewhat easier for those event planners, they're, and they're dealing with the venues are dealing with clients every day who are asking about when we'll be able to have events so yeah but what you said is great and I wish I had a clear cut answer for how it gets done. I don't know. I'll probably get nuked on Twitter for taking this position but I would, I would, I think I would sort of base this on what happens after school resumes. So I mean I, I would be comfortable with a date, like that that is the appropriate time after which school has resumed at which you would be evaluating this. It's like schools got schools resuming the middle of August, and we need what do we need right I mean we need four weeks or whatever the magic number is, and, and, and then we'll decide whether, whether it can be done. I'd agree with something like that and also when we come out. What the events need to do, you know, DDI does a tree lighting in downtown Durham. We're looking at do we do that, but the bigger concern is, how do we ensure if there is a limit on how many folks can can be in a space, how do we ensure that people, more people don't come because of just the excitement of some kind of normalcy. It's really the thing that we and I think a lot of events, especially outdoor festivals, you want to comply, but word gets out, regardless of how much you may or may not market it word gets out and folks are like oh my gosh that's something I'm used to I'm going to come down. And you know you can't really go first come first serve and then we're just going to have barriers up and, you know, have you waiting or is that the option so I think when we run we roll out events, we will take a look at events and festivals happening at this time. And here are the safeguards that we'd like and be put in place to ensure you're going to comply. The same thing I would would throw out there is, as we're not having these events, the economic impact that is happening not only to those venues and of course it's very obvious when you think about the bulls D pack, but you know schools not having football, the money they're bringing in and I'm not, I'm not advocating so I don't I don't want to get out there that I'm advocating that we should push, but that is an economic impact that the city will fill in three four years from now, because they are not making that money and it's not generating the things that have a that that build upon that. So because they're not bringing in whatever the millions of dollars that they bring in ncc you and do. I mean, three, three years from now. So that that's another consideration and maybe that's something for the task force that I'm on with Ed Pilar, Susan and Jeff for us to kind of consider, but I think there needs to be some thought about what what is this going to do to our local economy by not having those those events. Good point. So, I guess, you know, the thought of sort of tying this to let's get students back and the schools back and give some some sense of time after that. Wake County, I think is end of October they've said is that correct. Okay, so I'm seeing some nodding heads. So, you know, do we want to make a recommendation that we've that we align with Wake County, or, you know, schools start back in August, could we say, you know, no, no, sort of think about it in quarters of the year, no events through the end of September, which would be end of a quarter and then reevaluate at that point. So I will always just go back to the data and I think I like the idea I almost feel like we planted George to make a comment for Rod and I, but we, I like the idea to we expect both university students and elementary students to go through I think eight is the most recent plan to return to a congregate setting sometime within the next month. And I wonder if it's worth giving about four weeks from all of those restart of the school settings to see what the data is and ultimately making a decision. And that may line up to probably the end of September, and given some guidance afterwards, based on data. And I, and I do hear all of the concerns I know we can't always say we understand exactly what everyone is struggling with with the unknowns but also so with lack of planning, but also with the true financial impact that everyone is experiencing right now. And I think we can give more specific guidance actually for the indoor setting, because there are a lot more ways you can control who's coming in and who's going out. The outdoor setting has so many just stands to have a lot more nuances and moving pieces that I think ultimately accepted there's a true entry and exit when it's more of a free flowing outdoor event. And I struggle to understand what social distancing would look like in that setting. So all of that to say is, we need data. And when we have data, it would be easier to make a more informed recommendation. And that might be a little bit easier after about four weeks of our local schools being in some kind of structured setting. Thank you. Rod anything else from a public health perspective. Sure. Again, we're all decisions of data driven. And, you know, again, I've been pressing personally pressing State Department of Health and Human Services in terms of guidance around these topics and I've not received a whole lot of answers. You know, we kind of plant the seeds and then we wait on them to let us know and maybe it's a situation which, you know, more than one person is saying the same thing and all of a sudden they kind of gravitate toward that topic, if you will. But I would caution mass gatherings. Because, again, you know, it's the clusters, it's the, it's the, you know, inability to social distance, it's the, you know, fervent desire for normalcy that really gets everyone in trouble. We're seeing great spike in Florida and Texas and Arizona. We just don't want that. I mean, we really want to get, well, I would say keep things in control. So I would just say, you know, caution schools. And we're a community that love our kids, we love school, we're an academic community, and that's where a lot of our priorities are. So I think we really need to focus on that, and then we need to make sure that we can assess the data and show that they're after. Brad, can you talk a little bit about testing, the importance of testing as students come back to the campuses as well as students entering the re-entering the K through 12 environment. And, you know, we talked about giving it four weeks, but it seems like there needs to be a certain amount of testing that needs to go on in order to give us the appropriate measurements after that four week period. I want to make sure that I'm clear with one thing. And the COVID-19 test is a point in time test. And testing is certainly not the end all be all while it's very important. Testing is important, Mr. Nelson, because it helps us to locate where the prevalence of COVID is. And, you know, I say this with a whole lot of trepidation. But, you know, again, we, as the mayor said, it's going to be a bumpy ride, because as the chair said, from the colleges, they're coming from all over the world. They're coming from all over the country. And we simply don't know what they're bringing with them. Some colleges are instituting protocols to where they're going to test every student initially. Some are not. Some have segmented dormitories set up. Some don't as far as K through 12. You know, again, A, B, and C, that Dr. Mbenga eloquently laid out. And we're going to do our best to support them in every way possible. But again, testing is, it's just one facet. But as I've been saying for months, it just all goes back to old fashioned public health practice. And once you are able to identify those individuals who may or may not be positive, you still fall back to those public health practices. So I certainly hope I answered your question. So I think, and this is great dialogue. Thank you all so much. Really appreciate it and appreciate the insight that everyone's sharing. I think what I'm hearing generally is certainly any decision would need to be driven by the data and should be driven by the data. That's what we've set out in terms of our guiding principles for this task force. In order to have the data, we need at least four weeks probably after the beginning of school. That four weeks would put us at mid to late September. So to make it easy if we said, no, no mass gatherings, no, no events, festivals or events between now and the end of September, and that at the end of September, we would reevaluate and provide guidance based on the data for events moving forward. And that that would be the recommendation of this task force to Mayor Schul and Chair Jacobs. Am I capturing that appropriately is there anyone who I've not heard any, any dissent on this and certainly would want to make sure we're capturing. We want to capture all perspectives here so if there's someone who has real concerns with that please share that now. I think that's a reasonable approach one thing I would say and I agree with the idea of using the data, but I doubt that we would just wait until September 30 and let people think that starting October 1 events are okay, because I think we're going to learn more over the next six weeks, and we may decide along the way that we want to move that date out. That would be the only thing I would say that I might add to what you just said but I think that's a reasonable approach. I really like the approach because it's not arbitrary we have some basis to support the record recommendation so I feel like it's a great recommendation, because we can tie it back to this is the why. Right. Okay. I think that kind of disagrees with that recommendation. All right, so that will be the recommendation from this task force. To Mayor Schul and chair Jacobs, and then from there, you all can decide how you then take that and and move forward with that. I will include that in an upcoming amended order I'm sure Anna Davis is on the line here our attorney and I'm sure she's listening as well so we'll make that work. One thing we might do is just allow for a period of providing. Particular types of events. What I see in some of these rulings is you make the rule and then you find no one considered one little pocket that actually is a reasonable exception or something like that. I've already gotten a comment here about what about races and marathons is that included with that be included in this what's the definition of an outdoor event. I don't know that there would be anything that we would want to exclude but I would just say if we can take a couple of days and think about whether there are any specifics that need to be either written in or excluded from the order, I think that would be a good idea. I wonder if this could go back as the recommendation to that round table, and then ask if they have considerations around what what exceptions if any might need to be made. That would be great better than we do. Or then I we could do that. That's a great idea and we can certainly do that. All right. Perfect. Okay, anything else from the round tables. Good work. I do want to just bring something to everyone's attention. It's more since I have the forum, the forum to share. There is a bill going through the US Congress to help independent restaurants. And I'm going to send something out later on this afternoon about that bill and we're looking to get. I mean I have to do a huge shout out to some of our local restaurants. Elizabeth Turnbull and a few others that have really taken the lead on that, but I'll send something out to my email and if you could share it we're really trying to gather and garner support for this. It is to creating a fund to give money to some of our independent restaurants, a dedicated fund to independent restaurants across the country. And price and Butterfield have our cosponsors, I believe I could have that a little wrong. And they're looking across North Carolina to get all of the US representatives and senators behind this but I just wanted to keep an eye out for that this afternoon. And if you can please share it. They're just looking for support folks who are willing to reach out and call their representatives and say yep this is a great thing please do it. And at the federal level, and they're looking for a sizable amount of money that could then be given out it would go through the Department of Treasury I believe not the SBA. So it would probably behave a little differently than the PPP and would be open for any number of things to include rent mortgage payments to assist some of our independent restaurants. Kind of came out of the roundtable, but really it's just, hey, this is really important if you have a close connection to your representative or no people who do please share the email that I'll be sending out to all your friends and networks. That's terrific thank you so much for that update and that's that's really good news. Good news for restaurants, hopefully get it passed. Other updates that folks have or anything else that you'd like to discuss even if not today, as we're running a little bit short on time is, is there anything that you'd like to discuss for next week that you want to make sure we include on the agenda. Okay, I just wanted to before being ended, I really want to recognize, you know, Rod, and all of his staff and Pilar, and everybody who has been working on the outreach to our Latinx community, I really don't want us to, you know, to let it slip by the fact that we have really gone from, you know, 77% of our cases down to 50% in the Latinx community. I mean we still have a long way to go. But I do think that that speaks volumes to the work that is happening on the ground. You know, from, you know, just the outreach public education resources, you know, the contact the more bilingual culturally competent contact tracing the help of the construction industry. I shout out to the Home Builders Association and folks who have put together a great video and and, you know, guidance to to the construction contractors, subcontractors about safe practices for their employees when they're driving to work when they're at lunch breaks. I think that these, it just shows that these efforts are paying off. And so I'm just grateful and want to recognize you Pilar and Rod and everybody who's working so hard on that. Thank you and Phillip. I know you've been a part of those efforts. It just it really speaks volumes to the teamwork so thank you. Yeah, thank you. It's been a heroic effort. Yeah, I could Katie also we'd like to update the group on a committee, our committee's work as far as an equitable recovery. We've been meeting for the past, I guess, month or so, and have kind of created a framework about a sort of a rebound and recovery and various different metrics and we'd love to kind of give you guys a summary report next week and then open up for a broader discussion. Excellent. We'll add that to the agenda for next week. That's terrific. Anything else. Chief, we'd also like to get maybe an update from the immigrant immigrant refugee roundtable next week I know a lot of continued really good work again going on there. And maybe some specific requests that they have for us so would love to add that to the agenda for next week. Katie I have just a couple of quick comments. What a great task force gosh. I cannot believe how awesome this has been. I'm so grateful and Wendy and I have been exchanging chat about this group. Today, we're so lucky to have you thank you so much. And for the people are supporting the task force so we see along the bottom of our screen here Brian and Anna, Ryan, Amber, Marielle and drew with gratitude to all of you all. The, just a couple things, the budget process I just want to add this, I want to say again what Mattisha said which is I really feel a sense of urgency around this. I think what the task force needs to do is to give us the, but you know, we need to understand what the big picture is so the coordination with the EOC. You know, how important is a quarantine hotel and what does it cost. What is our overall PPE need and what is it going to cost us. You know we don't know exactly but you know estimates of these things. So what is what is what do we need him to continue to do around food security and then all the things that we have surfaced sort of big and small. You know we have this request from restaurants for support for outdoor dining. We have a request from restaurant around restaurants around airflow mechanics. So the comms, the communications request and I think that I know what will be valuable for me and I think would be for our managers and for our city council and commission is. What is the big picture look like, but then also sooner than that, what are the really top urgent priorities what are the things we need to be spending money on now that we can try to kind of quickly move. So if our chairs and our task force could help us do those things that would be great. You know, I, I, one thing I wanted to mention I forgot to mention is that in support of back on the bull. We're going to be distributing a printing and distributing 1000 signs, along with face coverings and education to some of our small businesses to help them talk about, talk to their customers about about masking up and their employees. And so we want to be assisting our businesses to do this, not just, you know, this will be threw back on the bull as well. And I did forget to mention that I wanted to. The other thing I've been thinking about is this and, you know, what is the prevalence in our community so right now more than one in every 100 people in Durham has contracted coven. If we move if we if we have 60 cases a day. That would mean for the next three weeks. Well let's see in the next, if we have 60 cases a day in the next month. That would mean one out of every 50 people in Durham would have contracted coven 19. So this is, you know, for me, I have, maybe many of you all have already known people well who had coven 19 I haven't until recently. I now have three good friends who have coven 19 and are sick, very sick. And so the, the threat of the virus continues to be very significant at the same time this we want to reopen. And so I'm just so appreciative of everybody trying to stress these public health practices, they're just so crucial. And then the final thing I want to mention again is what I think is the need to help us with compliance. I really continue to think we're going to need more sanitarians. And I feel like Rod and his staff are already so pressed that we have to figure out how to fund some more of these. And I really hope that that will be amongst our budget parties, people that can go out to businesses and come and help educate them and can work with them on best practices and to figure out how we can get more compliance. So those are some thoughts that I have, but my main thought is just gratitude to you all. What a great group and you all have been doing such amazing work as Matt and really is making a big difference. Thank you so much. And, and I'd echo it thanks to all of you for just the incredible work this is, this is an amazing team. It really is just an incredible group. Matisha anything you wanted to add before we close out. I don't have anything new. Just a couple of items that we need to focus on moving forward over the next week. I've captured those items and I'll just highlight a couple of those if you don't mind Katie. So just coming out of this meeting we talked about Katie presented to us weekly some hospital stats and trying to define what are those critical stats that we want to focus on as well as trying to figure out is there a way to get some of the information on the data hub. Budget, a lot of work to do on the budget process and we will work diligently on that. And I'll take the lead on that working very closely with Ryan. I think Mayor Schul committed to working with the city manager to get the funding for the phase one a communication plan. And then we had some conversations about the recommendation about like outdoor events and I think where we landed Katie we basically said we're going to ask the round table wasn't sure which round table, but a round table to really shape up the recommendation that we can move forward and then Mayor Schul and Chair Jacobs will work to get that in an amended order in the future. So which round table is going to take the lead on that festival events. Yeah, entertainment venues and events. Yeah. Got it. So that was it. All right, great. Well if there's nothing else we have, we're going to give you back 30 seconds, 30 seconds in your day but I don't know about you but I'll take 30 seconds any day so thank you all so much. Have a great weekend. Thanks for all the work. Thanks everyone. Thank you everybody.