 Well, good morning, everyone. It is eight o'clock and we're going to go ahead and call the meeting of the Durham Task Force on Recovery and Renewal to order. And I would ask if we could just take a moment this morning with everything going on in the world around us and in our community. And the hurt that so many in our community are feeling and and our hearts heavy. If we could just take a moment for reflection, please. Thank you for that. And as a reminder, our work of this task force is very much grounded in the framework of race equity and that perspective and that lens of race equity so all that we do we need to keep that in mind in our work. And with that, I will turn over to Mayor Schuyl and chair Jacobs for their updates this week. Thank you, Katie and good to see you and thank you for opening us with that moment of reflection we are in a very difficult time in Durham and in the world. And it's unbelievable to me to think about how our world has changed, not just in the last few months but just in the last week. And we all have to do everything we can to try to create the just society that we all want. And I'm proud that a lot of our work here and the work that you all have been leading on the task force has really been geared that way towards thinking about our vulnerable populations and thinking about equity at the center of this work because we know that the virus affects different populations that that the virus has attacked different populations because of the social inequalities that we have in our community and in our nation and in the world. So I'm very grateful to all of you all for keeping that in the forefront of our minds. And talk to Ryan earlier in the week about what to emphasize today in introducing the meeting and it's really clear and it really relates to the things that we've already started the meeting talking about. And that is that as you're going to hear from Rod in a little while. The next population is really bearing the brunt of the virus in Durham. And so we're going to have that as an important focus of today's meeting. And I think that's something that we just have got to do everything in our power to take on in the immediate future. Whether it's whether we're thinking about education and advocacy whether we're thinking about PPE. Whether we're thinking about our roundtables and how we're and all this some of this work has already been ongoing this week. With our construction roundtable for example, to think about how we can better protect our Latinx neighbors from the virus. And so there are a lot of other things I could say today about our work and there's been some amazing work in this last week I'm so impressed and so impressed with the work that everybody on this group has been doing it's fantastic. But that's the one thing I really want to stick to that because I think that's, that's the thing that's really on my mind and on my heart and I know that it is also for the rest of you. Thank you very much. And I'll turn it over to Wendy. I'm sorry everyone I was having trouble getting into this meeting this morning so apologize. And apologize not hearing what the mayor said. But good morning everyone. Good to see everybody this morning again. And again, as always, thank you for the incredible work that everybody is doing. I think when I, I don't know if the mayor said said this but it has been a pretty intense week. And so when I think about where we're at right now. I'm, I'm definitely thinking about it with a different perspective. And so it looks like we have lost Commissioner Jacobs. I thought it was my computer that had frozen up but it may have been hers. Let's see if we can get her back on the line. Can you see me now. There we are. Yeah. Sorry about that. Anyway, I just, it was hard to social distance. And I guess when I think about just, you know, coven 19. I don't, you know, there's been a lot of discussion about how, how is this going to impact what are we going to see in two weeks. With all the, all of the protests. I think that's for me is a big question mark related to that. And then of course with all the work that's happening in downtown with our businesses. I was glad to see this incredible artwork which is behind me right now last night on one of the pieces of plywood boarding up one of our businesses downtown. But, you know, this was the week that a lot of our downtown businesses were going to also try to reopen and move out onto the street. So I just think now we have also another reality. And I'm going to be looking forward to hearing what Nicole and Susan and Jeff and all the folks working on the right revitalization. What, how this is going to impact the timeline of even people won't, you know, being able to move out onto the street and reopen. And of course we've been incredibly fortunate and Durham that we've had peaceful protests because we've seen what's happened otherwise and that could really, you know, have an impact on people. And that's really opening their business. So that, that's really on my mind right now. And the other issue I would just raise is that the numbers and I'm looking forward to hearing rods report are definitely increasing and it, it, and I know that mayor was talking about concerns about the Latinx community we just lost our first child in Durham, second grader quick side who is his, you know, Latinx Hispanic and evidently her whole family is sick. So of course, really tragic that we have lost a child. And I look forward to hearing from people are about that because I've been hearing things about related to that family and great news about masks which which I hope we'll hear more from folks about that great great news about our capacity. All of a sudden Jody I think knows about this and drew. And just the issue of homelessness. Again, I would like to hear from drew about this today are basically our contract runs out at the hotel where we have about 150 homeless people, July 1. And so that's only a few weeks away and right now we actually don't have a plan in place, and we're only going to be able to be at half capacity for a homeless shelter so that's a another thing that's really front and center for me so again a lot of important things to talk about this morning with everybody. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mayor shul Commissioner Jacobs, great updates. I will give just a brief update on the PPE. So we had two meetings this week to two working groups that convened to really look at plans for providing face coverings to both vulnerable populations, and also increasing access to to be able to purchase those face coverings for small businesses in our community. And we've actually got some very good news on this front so we have Durham has secured more than $100,000 in funding to provide free face coverings and we'll be distributing more than 40,000 of those starting this month. Additionally, the county received more than 100,000 I think it was actually 112,000 face coverings this week. And so the two teams are continuing to work continuing to meet and really looking at how we can coordinate the distribution of these masks. And certainly in the, the group that met around vulnerable populations really looking at there is a group called cover Durham that has been doing a tremendous amount of work in this area. And bringing that together to really coordinate that with the county, so that we have a very coordinated approach to this so more will be coming in the, the next week or so. But we're moving pretty quickly on this. I think that's good news. Matisha, did you have any updates for today. No, I don't have any additional updates Katie. Okay, and I will ask Ryan to keep us on track here was there anything else that I was supposed to update on that I forgot to update on. No, that was good. Thank you. Thank you. Then, with that I will ask director Jenkins to give us an update on the key metrics, as well as Dr I can boil. One of these days I'm going to figure this out. I apologize. I was saying good morning to everyone on a task force and I was saying that I echo Commissioner Jacobs sentiments on the death of the young Hispanic individual and you know our hearts and mind goes out with the family. It's it's been a little tough on the public health staff and the work that we do because we are seeing such a heavy increase in the Latinx community. And it's, it's certainly taking a toll but our work goes on and we continue to do the great work of public health. So I'm going to provide you with some key updates, what I affectionately now call weekly reflection data reflections for the week of June 1, 2020. Currently, within the United States we're sitting at 1,842,101 cases of COVID resulting in 107,029 deaths. In the state of North Carolina we're at 31,966 cases of COVID resulting in 960 deaths. And in Durham, we're at 1,920 cases of COVID resulting in 49 deaths. As we always do we recommend going to the data hub, we continue to try to increase that and make it as transparent as possible, and make it Durham's source of accurate factual information on all things COVID. We started off the week with a total of 1677 total cases, and this did represent a 348 case increase from last week. So it's not an understatement to say that we are seeing a heavy increase in our numbers. The metric, that's one metric that we came up with total number of cases because the total number of cases helps our community to better understand total disease burden within our community. And then we moved to the second metric was which was the seven day average for the week. And we did see our seven day average move up dramatically. Two weeks ago, it was 20. Last week, it was 41. This week we're seeing the seven day moving average be 51 total cases. And that certainly shows that they're the trends in the disease prevalence is increasing within our community. Then I like to go toward speaking about the month of May if I, if I can. The month of May saw significant increases and cases, there were a total of 882 new cases for the total month of May. So that's that's staggering. So again, it shows that coronavirus is not going away continues to wreak havoc on on our community. And we're doing our very best to do our part to continue to promote awareness. As far as race, ethnicity and work information. We continue to promote health equity because we know that it's central to Durham County's health department's values and also Durham County's values. And as it stands right now in the month of May, the most cases were among the Hispanic or Latinx individuals and they represented 67%. And again, that's for the month of May. So suffice to say the Hispanic or Latinx community were overrepresented, because they represent 13.7 or roughly 14% of Durham County's residents. But then, as far as COVID cases, they represented 67% of all of our cases within the black African American community, they were underrepresented for the month of May. They represent a total of 37% of Durham County residents, but for the month of May, their COVID-19 cases represented 19% of all cases. As far as white individuals, they represent 54% of Durham County's total population, but for the month of May, they represented 12% of all our cases. And then we were proud to announce that we have reduced the amount of missing data on race and ethnicity hats off to our data analytics team for making sure that they were able to properly identify all individuals. So we still are missing ethnicity for 5% of our cases, but that's certainly down from 17% in the month of April. So we continue to hone and work on our skills and make sure that we report the information as we receive the data. Continuing on with work, race and ethnicity and talking more or less about occupational community settings. It's important to understand these common workplace and congregate areas in terms of COVID-19 transmission because they help us to target resources, ensure proper worker protections, and identify root causes for disparities. Again, talking about for the month of May, the greatest number of cases occurred among people working in construction, those who are unemployed, and those individuals working in nursing care facilities, a further breakdown. 91% of our cases were associated with construction work settings and were amongst the Hispanic or Latinx community. That's the need for the construction roundtable, which I'm certainly happy that we instituted that. 85% of our cases were unemployed and were also amongst the Hispanic or Latinx community per the data for the month of May. 65% of our cases were associated with nursing care facilities. And again, they were amongst the Black or African American community. And as Lois has asked last week, we are happy to provide some information about our efforts to curb that within long term care and or nursing facilities. In terms of data distribution, adults were considered 18 years and older. Nursing care facilities, 72% of the residents, 72% of positives were residents, and 28% were staff. And adults 65 years and older were also listed as unemployed or were assumed to be retired. As far as our surveillance tracking, we want to indicate that we're continuing to track the prevalence of positive tests in insured populations and in community based populations. Positive prevalence for insured population rolls from 9% to roughly 13% at the end of the week. Positive prevalence amongst community based rolls from 9% to 19% by the end of the week. So we provide these estimates upon a weekly seven day moving average. Again, unless something is changed and Mayor Schule or Chair Jacobs has some updates for me. I have access to all negative tests completed in Durham County. I continue to hound the Department of Health and Human Services for this information, but I've not received it yet. So we don't want to indicate, you know, anything that may be misestimating. However, we do go by those, those tests that we have accurate information from and that comes from Duke University Medical Center and Walgreens because we know the total number of tests and we also know the total number of positives. I'm also proud to announce that on our data hub. We have provided more information about how to locate a testing facility. And within the data hub their icons for either CVS or fast man, or Lincoln, which shows like where they can go through geo mapping exactly where to go to get to test. And as some of you have also heard and what I've been talking about for the past couple of weeks, the state did do an announcement about the tools that our residents can use to further find and understand their symptoms and also where they can also get tested as well. So proud to announce that as well. At this time, that concludes my weekly briefing. More than happy to answer questions. Thank you so much. Are there questions? I do have one question. Rod, thank you so much for the weekly reflection reflections. I love the report is a lot of great information. And I do understand that you just can't look at one item to draw conclusions, but you talked about the increase in cases over the past week. And as you said, it's a pretty large increase. It's about 20% 20% increase over where we were. Is there anything that you are aware of that was unique to last week to cause this increase. I have taken hours upon hours to really quiz my surveillance team to pour over the data and to really take stock. Leticia of all of our efforts and everything that we've done. And I, I really truly do believe that the results of our efforts to get the word out to our Latinx community is really paying dividends. We are shouldering the burden on the back end of course with contact tracing investigation. And that's what we do. But when I tell you that when I look at the line list and I look at the number of the names and the number of individuals that are coming. It's 85 to 90% Hispanic. It's a fair and true honest state. The surveillance team, they don't necessarily like me to be inside their space but I'll go in there just to get a feel for what's going on and to really feel you know really give them support and just ask questions. And I was in there for several hours late yesterday evening. And this is what I'm seeing. So I am forever grateful to Pilar and El Centro and El Fatoro and the folks from Lale, which is the Spanish language radio station and all the things that I will be more than happy to detail as far as our efforts to get the word out later on inside the agenda. But the word is out and people are getting tested in droves. And that's a good thing because we want to know we want them to know what their status is. We want them to get access to care as soon as possible. So I think that's where we are right now. Tisha. Thank you for that. And are we also seeing any increases in congregate living either between Butler or any of our skilled nursing facilities, or has that tapered off. That's a very good question Katie and that has presented somewhat of an anomaly, because as lowest wanted information. Last weekend we're prepared to provide that to you today. So congregate living was really given us a run for our money if you will. And in weeks past, but it's sort of tapered off a little bit. We do have the presence of a few clusters. Katie and by that we mean there's several that we're really taking on and we're looking. And that there was a couple of cases this couple of cases that we saw, particularly at during rescue mission, and a couple other places that we have, you know, been really keeping an eye on. But in terms of like, massive outbreaks Katie intern in places and some of the long term care facilities that we have in our community. Tapered off a little bit. But it's still still there. But we've not had, for example, we've not had a situation in which we had like 30 or 40 in one facility. So, I think I have some some wood here I'm just going to knock on wood that it continues to taper off a little bit but you know we're fortunate that our efforts, which I will explain a little bit later on. We've been doing dividends as far as working with the many long term care facilities nursing facilities in Durham. I think, you know, again, us having a presence on site, having a register sanitary and a public health nurse as a team as a strike force, and providing that information from public health is really helping out. Excellent. Thank you. There are other questions. I have a question. Rod, any, anything you're seeing with childcare facilities as people are going back to work and more people are using childcare and also in terms of the contact tracing with Latinx Hispanic community maybe we'll hear more from this about Pilar. I know there have been challenges with people not necessarily wanting to share information. And is, if you could talk about that and, and if we can't do the tracing adequately can, can we at least say to people will please tell everybody that you've been around for the last two weeks that you're positive, even if you won't tell us. I just don't know how do you how do we approach these situations so Very good questions, Madam chair more than happy to expound on it. I'll take the second one first if you don't mind. As I said to Madam chair and the mayor earlier this week. It's not an issue of us having the right language spoken in order to do the contact tracing we have the people in the capacity and the personnel. It's the trust. It's the people giving us the answers to help us box in the coronavirus in these communities. And sometimes it's, it's, it's frustrating to the surveillance staff to make the calls and to not get the answers that they need and to make another call and get the answer to one of the original calls. So it's quickly becoming ladies and gentlemen and investigation within an investigation. That's the best way to put it. So we, we continue to do our best we continue to get the word out to let them know that public health is governed by HIPAA, and that their confidentiality is of utmost importance, and that we are professionals and we won't release their information, but we do need the names and contact information for those people who they we consider to be close contacts. And it's not all doom and gloom we are making some breakthroughs in terms of being able to get the information that we need. Some of it is like really coming as a result of us being in the same location, calling out information or names and somebody else say oh I just talked to that person, or or I know about that situation so we continue to do the very best we can with that. I will have to exit this meeting a little early because we are proud to announce that we're finalizing the details on our CCNC contact tracers. Some of you on the call know that CCNC has had their challenges putting that platform together and getting that up and running. But, you know, again I had to shake a few trees and really let them understand where Durham is. When you have a day where you have in like 100 cases in one day, then that's that that's a call to action. And I don't care who I got to talk to us like look my folks need help. You guys promised us this, there are federal monies that came down for this we really need for you all to assist us. So going back to question number one Madam Chair, not too many issues with childcare facilities. There was one that that came on our radar that we knew of, and we again we just asked that they follow the protocols. They contact public health, and then we make sure that we guide them to making sure that they do what they have to do but they were there were there've not been too many maybe to Right, can you shine a little more white on and give some insight into the unemployment percentages, I think you mentioned that 85% of the cases were unemployed. That just baffles me. I'll do a little, I'll do a little bit Mr Nelson but um, it's important that I give that clarification. A lot of the cases again involve the Latinx community, and a lot of the positives are family members, particularly spouses, and the majority of them Mr Nelson are unemployed. So again they they are listed as a positive, but they are in fact unemployed and in addition to that, those individuals and congregate living facilities who are 65 years and older. We, we have no other choice but to make the assumption that they are either retired, or they're unemployed. So that's, that's what the data is really saying. So we're looking retired, I'm sorry, we're looking retired and unemployed together. Is that correct for the purposes of our data collection. Yes, sir. Let's just say one real quickly on that I think my understanding of what Rod said Rod you can correct me is that it's not that 85% of the cases are unemployed and Rod correct me it's that 85% of our of the cases of people who are unemployed are Latinx. Is that correct Rod. That's correct. And again, it's important for me to also note that that was for the month of May. Rod, I would like to, if we can have a conversation later on about the tracing and the phone calls because I had a lady who called me and she was feeling very uncomfortable. She was actually giving the information and receiving so many calls and why do they need her kids names and she already gave it to somebody else and she said I'm not going to answer anymore the telephone. What do you think and I said you need to give it is a way and explain everything but if we can have a conversation to see how we can help on that because it's a trust issue and how so if we can have a conversation later on. Absolutely. Thank you for that information because the one thing that I have learned is that in in my communications with the Latinx advocates and public health or health care advocates. It's sometimes the messaging in the way that we deliver the information may need to change in order to establish a certain comfort level. So I'm more than happy to have that conversation with you and I thank you. Thank you. And just a quick comment we're running to some of the same issues here where we have patients that are positive being contacted by their provider research team. And then somewhat of the internal contact tracers just to figure out where they went. And I think a slight update that may have made a difference is at the time of testing. And ensuring that people know they will be contacted if they're positive and it's more for their safety safety of the family and their local community. It didn't fix all the issues but it may help just ensuring that at the time of testing. The same way we do with a lot of tests you will be contacted to discuss your results but to also ask you about where you've been for the last two days. That's great. Thank you. So this is actually I think a really good segue point into talking about what additional steps we need to take to really help reduce the spread in our Latinx community. We've heard the numbers we know we have a significant challenge here and really want to get our arms wrapped around this. So Pilar, do you want to start us off. Yes, thank you. Kate and thank you everybody for a major and the commissioner for putting this important place in the agenda and for everybody. We've been having different meetings and a lot of conversations with different groups and even people from this task force. So first identifying probably what are the barriers for our community or the issues we see. And of course one of the main we've seen is people don't want to say they are sick if they are starting feeling sick because they need to work. They need to get the money. So they don't say they don't tell anybody and they go to work even if they have some symptoms. The other thing is, I think the masks is an issue. I don't think it's a big issue, but we still need to come to work on that. In some places we see if they are the only ones using the masks and others are not using it or at the stores or other places they feel is not recommended is not mandatory. I think that's the probably the work that they feel why they need to use it. Also, we talked about how to work in certain places with the mask on how comfortable or uncomfortable it is. The other thing I gather is people and contractors and other people feel that because restaurants are opening and other things are opening means we don't have to worry as much as we had to worry before. They are relaxing the recommendations we put out there even using the mask or cleaning everything, wiping with Clorox or using the masks or washing hands or distancing. So I think we need to continue working on that. Some people don't want to share with others that they are sick because they feel rejected. So last week I helped a lady who the lady who called me for this and she said I don't want anybody to know because then they will feel we are not desirable to be around or the neighbors will look at us and send in a strange way so we don't want anybody to know that we are sick. I think that's a problem also with tracing. The other issue we are seeing is in construction mainly people traveling together to the working site. So what would we do about it? And also some of the employers, the contractors they feel they are following the recommendations and they try to do everything at the work site but they feel over the weekend the workers relax and they share with other people and then they come on Monday with no following the recommendations during the weekend. I'm going to mention some of the things we know are happening already the efforts that everybody's doing right now and probably I'm missing some but I tried to make a summary. So we know the health department has been doing a lot of work having videos in Spanish for the community. The flyers actually I received a good flyer yesterday from Alicia about the new COVID fact sheet. And I was happy to see also that they included in the symptoms that they losing the smell and the taste because that's the thing I've been hearing in Latin in the Latinx community. A lot of them they don't have fever when they start getting sick. They just feel a little No, no, no very sick but a little but mainly they don't they can't smell anything or taste anything. So that's in the new flyers. So I think that's very important. And you made some a cover Durham is connecting with different Latinx outlets talking in our culture or superior the credit union. And on the church giving masks so we know that's going on giving masks to the community. We are the central box some masks from people from the community who makes them. And we've been distributing those masks but also with them we are planning on having some Facebook lives, them explaining why they decided to make this mask masks and why it's important to use them and give recommendations so it's not a game. As a center or the Health Department telling them but it's their own community or their neighbors or their friends or family members. And then we are forming the immigrant refugee roundtable. So we will start next week meeting next week early next week. So other ideas we've been gathering for how to work on these distribute masks in the neighborhoods Latinx neighborhoods but including educational materials. I believe if we don't include these materials. Excuse me. If we don't do anything really giving the masks because we that doesn't assure they are going to use them so we need to really include these materials. I would say we need to be very specific try to be specific in depending of the sectors. So if you're in construction, if you're painting if you're working inside outside gardening or other places so they know you are driving with somebody else because it's the only way of transportation. What are the measures you need to take to do that so we need to be very specific in that material. We've given it with the masks. Also, we think it's better to give some of the clothes masks. So, because I think it's better for them to it's easier to breathe with those. And also talk work with contractors about signage of all the recommendations they need to follow insist that they have to repeat every day to their workers, the recommendations so I think we need to work closer to the contractors and also the workers of course the community members. Another idea that came up was provide some stickers that communicate about wearing masks to protect your family with the hard hats. What else have I here. Again, I said with the printing material. Also important developing a communications campaign with the Spanish media. I've been, we've been meeting with newspapers radio TV in Spanish, and we are working in in this communications campaign, but I would like to see how we can really centralized or I don't know the best work to use, but because I feel we are doing so many different things in this area. And I think that you know the resources in time and and money and people are not a lot so how we can capitalize in what everybody's doing and trying to. And also I think that that will give to the give to the community. Sorry, a unified message and really they know this is what I need to listen and everybody saying the same thing. No different messages because I think that that's also confusing for the community so I will want to hear some something about that. When we talk about the creating about testing. So I talked to road and feel about the idea probably helping with some testing with our mobile unit but we haven't finalized that that conversations because mobile probably is enough testing what we don't know is how our community feel about it but hearing from Rob seems like our community is really coming forward to the testing places but we don't know if about trust, if we'll help if somehow we are involved in that but we can continue talking about that. And the other thing we talked was about what another thing we think is people if they feel sick, they still need to go out get food for their families so they don't send anybody but they go to the supermarket and other places. So how we can if we can start a campaign or something this similar to what we are doing with the positive covid that when they are sick. They contacted I know the county has a program we have also a program they can contact us and we will bring them food. We buy some groceries for them and the medicines and deliver to the home. So if we could do that if you feel sick, if you have these symptoms. How we can help you bring into you the food or whatever you need so you don't have to go out while you get get tested. So that's something I think I would like to see if we can go to some of these and something very important in all the work and I think the mayor mentioned this at the beginning of the meeting is really to implement a commitment to two way communication on the part of the city and county agencies staffing hotlines and service windows with Spanish flu and representatives who can respond in a real time. I think this this can also be help along with that. We mentioned having Spanish speakers represented in the different roundtables. I think that's also very important and including in all roundtables. People from our community. Yesterday I connected Brian with a lot of their Realtors that are Latinos so they can know all the information but also give their ideas how really to work with our community. Simultaneous also full and accurate Spanish translation of key resources, print and online and also released at the same time as we released the English resources. I think that's important too. And we've been talking with Tilde about this and language justice. Also simultaneous interpretation at any task force meetings where key information is shared with the public at large and Spanish dubbing of videos and other recorded announcements released at the same time as English recordings. And also only to acknowledge that language access goes beyond Spanish English and even in the Latinx community, there are many indigenous languages speakers that go unnoticed so probably just mentioning that fact might help people to feel included in this work. So that's what I have. So I would like to see if we can have, I don't know if people have questions or a conversation about how we can really implement some of the ideas or if people have other ideas, but I think this is urgent. At least for, and I know for everybody and for us at the same choice, one of the priorities, and we've been working hard on these but we need also the support of everybody and see what others think and can propose. I have a question. Thank you. It's just disheartening to hear these these effects and implications, but also I didn't I was listening intentionally trying to hear whether or not you were going to point out some things that other communities could do to help the Latinx community. The Latinx community obviously, you know, it's a sad reminder that many of us have have suffered within our own communities for for for centuries, looking for help and not expecting help. So are there things that the black community and the business community also could do that that you hadn't put on a table that could help alleviate some of the some of the tentacles from from COVID-19 in the Latinx community. Thank you, Ed. So I think I think helping with all the messaging all over and not only to our community but to other community members and I guess businesses because a lot of them have contact with our community members. So I think with the messaging that could help. And also, I would say we could implement some of, you know, like the program helping bring in food to the people if we can get volunteers that that will be helpful. And about that, you know, I was thinking a lot about that piece because we always say, oh, people feel more comfortable seeing, you know, Spanish speakers, but we are talking about people who are sick and what we do we don't have contact with people we just leave the groceries and then we let them know we just deliver the groceries or clothing whatever they need at your door. So I think that that could be really helpful. And I guess we have some funding but I think even funding to buy the food or the things people need. I think that's the other piece. Elar, if people are interested in helping with funding. Do they make a donation through El Centro? Is that the best way or is there are there other ways to help with funding? Yes, so we have a fund, an emergency fund and we've been helping people through that fund with food. So yeah, that could be I can share the link. That would be great. Thank you. Elar, what about sick leave? I paid sick leave. I think about people going to work because they feel they have to work but if they had paid sick leave, it would help the employer because their other employees are not getting sick and it would help the employee and I wondered about what the status of paid sick leave is. I assume that means that a lot of people don't have it. And I wondered what our business community could do in response to that. I was thinking about the construction round table and the other industries that you mentioned, could we do some work on that and I'd be interested in hearing from some of our business representatives here about that. What are your thoughts, Elar? Yes, thank you for asking that and I forgot to say that because one, at least I was able to talk to one company yesterday and that's what they are doing after they got their first case because what they are saying is if you feel sick, don't come to work, get tested and if you get tested and you're positive, we will cover two or three weeks while you recover. So you don't have to worry so people can tell us and as you said, they don't bring it to the work site. But I'm not sure this is happening in all the companies. I was very surprised this person told me that. So I think that will be really helpful because that will help really to alleviate this and people will be more for coming saying, I'm not feeling very well, I'm having these symptoms and then pushing them to get tested because also even though testing I know is going up, I had a conversation with another lady that they, I think her sister, her husband, her brother-in-law was positive. So she told her sister to get tested and the kids and they weren't sure, they wouldn't do it, they better take some vitamin C and some food that will help them and finally they didn't get tested even though I pushed for that. So I think, but I think that will help a lot because they don't feel that I have to go because I need to provide. Just a kind of a wild idea thought kind of pulling from, you know, Ed's point about how different communities might also be able to support, knowing that, you know, not all employers are able to offer sick leave, particularly some small businesses that are already really struggling financially. I'm just curious if there's any, or if there has been ever efforts to, I know that within a single business, there are sometimes opportunities where somebody who has sick leave that doesn't need it can give it to a co-worker that doesn't, that sort of doesn't have it and I'd be curious if there's ever been any sort of more community-wide efforts around that. Obviously we need to get some of the large employers in the area on board where, for example, as a, you know, where, you know, potentially Duke employees who don't need their sick leave can gift some to another business to be able to pass along. And so just kind of throwing out a wild idea, but another way that different communities might be able to help support that aspect of it. That's actually a really interesting idea. I hadn't thought about that, but I wonder if we could get traction on it. What would be some next steps, Katie? Do you think that would maybe help us think about that? Who would have to get together? And maybe Jeff can have some ideas. Yeah, Jeff, because it would really be the business community largely. Certainly I can have some discussions here at Duke and see whether there ever would be that opportunity. I think it's certainly worth a conversation. I'd be more than happy to reach out to some of our larger employers. I don't know how that would necessarily work. If I'm understanding the question, how would a larger employer gift sick leave hours to maybe some of the, I don't see how that would work, but maybe it's certainly worth the conversation. These are extraordinary times. So I'd be happy to reach out and have some of those at least discussions if there's a way to do that. And people are please share that your link with us. I know that we'd love to share it with our network and make sure that we can push that opportunity out. Our corporate partners have so far have stepped up for the community and supported a number of different either nonprofits or other funding mechanisms to assist. And so I know that there'd be an interest in doing that for you all as well. So please do share that. And I will have some conversations additionally with some of our large employers to see what that could possibly look like. Sure. Yeah, and I'll look as well. I don't know exactly what it could look like. Although it could be as simple as, you know, take away the sort of PTO piece of it or paid time off and and look at just do we do we set up a fund that that could be established through El Centro or somewhere else that could be used to help provide some financial support for those employees. Yeah, Katie, that was that was the long lines that I was thinking is that, you know, it's, it is a budget line item, you know, benefits and including stick leave is a budget line item for businesses and so if employees sort of surrender some of their sick leave that I imagine there could be some sort of a cash calculation on the business but I don't I don't work in HR I don't know the calculations behind it and that essentially would then become a donation to a community based. Yeah, it's a good it's a good question I think it's worth exploring so maybe Jeff and I can work offline on that. Yeah, and I would suggest that you know the donating vacation or sick because traditionally, some employers do not allow you to donate sick but they do allow you to donate vacation. This is Wendy and I apologize I'm on my way to a doctor's appointment and that's why I've exited out of my video but people are that was a fantastic report, and you really I think gave us an incredible amount of insight into a lot of the issues and I think what I hear people doing is trying to respond to the, you know, the issues that have been raised and I think it's incumbent on all of us to come up with a plan that tries to address all of the various issues that Pilar has has raised. And I'm just wondering about the construction roundtable which just had its first meeting and if we could hear what were what came out of that in response to this. This need and you know what what are they doing what are they willing to do and even around this whole issue of sick paid sick leave. If that was that anything that was discussed. So that's a great segue right into our roundtable updates and let's start with construction I will mention, we do have a meeting I think on Tuesday afternoon of the action team focused on our work for our traditionally underserved communities and so we'll have a lot more I think, about this work but let's turn it over to Brian to give us a roundtable update. Good morning everyone and thanks for all the work you're all doing for our community. I'm going to go into the construction utilities roundtable. There's certainly recognition across the industries and by the employers that this is a issue that they're focused on for the short term and the long term on behalf of their work and their employees. And there did start to be some really good conversation between different entities, particularly some of the umbrella organizations like the home builders association about ways that everyone can work together to support one another. I don't want to say that there's some back and forth on what the specific next steps are going to be in terms of what's being pushed out to the sites and to actually who's who's delivering that information. But I do think that largely there's been a lot of good best practices out there by local state and national groups to try to influence the work of this sector, but it is coming down to what's what happens on the ground. I think there's also a important clarification that the work. I think employers and particularly some of these construction sites recognize that while they could be a that they are a place where people are gathering in to do the work that some of the data maybe reflects. That these and people who are contracting diseases. These are their occupations. Can you I take to put director Jenkins on the spot but could you clarify really quickly does through the contact tracing obviously some of the work goes back to where individuals have been. But does the data show where the transmission occurs or does it just show the occupation of the person. In most cases it shows the occupation it doesn't necessarily show where it occurs. So we in turn all through our questioning that's where we determine exactly where most of their time was spent, but it just asks what their occupation is. Yeah, so I just wanted to put that out there to help us understand the connection between everything we were just talking about and the industry specific conversations broadly is that there's a great recognition by both sides of the need to support the work that happens in the community outside of what happens on the work site. And so I think there's some really creative ideas that have started coming up about public private partnerships. And a lot of these systems have been in place in the past there, the public sector work that supports these industries tends to tends to be good two way communication to try to work together on regulation and best practices. And so I think you'll see some specific next steps moving forward from that but it's certainly important for us to get our, all of our people together from all sides of the issues. I'm happy to take some, some other questions about specifics that are coming out of roundtables but I would before giving a little bit more general update. I'm sorry, Mayor and Chair Jacobs to kind of put you all on the spot but can, can I get, can we give ourselves and the rest of our community just a quick reminder on how you are currently receiving the regular public health updates and then making decisions about how the task force and others can help make decisions about safe rate home orders and other public messaging on, on community priorities. Sure, we, we get now a weekly update from Rod in the MAC call which is on, which is the multi agency call, which is through the emergency operations center and that's on Wednesdays now we've moved to once a week. We get the kind of information the detail that Rod gave earlier we get. And then of course there's a lot of constant updating on the data hub so we feel like we have a lot better data constantly that Rod and his team have put together. In terms of, I'm not sure exactly the import your question right around the orders but we're not, we are, there's the only. I would say the only thing that we're hearing now locally from industry is from the real estate industry around open houses. They had met this week and I was expecting actually to get something from them haven't yet. But, but other than that we haven't really been I haven't been hearing I don't think Wendy has either from other specific industry groups that are that that are unhappy with our local order, there's still a lot of you know the gyms and the bars are really dealing at the state level with what the restrictions are. I do think the other thing that I've heard is that because the gyms are restricted from. You know, I've heard I got a one email. Actually, it was through George of from a gym owner concerned about the limit on outside mass gatherings because they want to have more people working, you know, exercising outside. So I guess that's the other thing that I've heard. I don't know. Can I just jump in? I just, I kind of, I'm going to have to run into this appointment. The other thing is we get epidemiological modeling data as well. Every week from Duke I just wanted to mention that that's another important source of information for us. Thanks for those reminders of how you are regularly thinking about it and making these decisions. The real estate services did get together this week and they have developed some voluntary self certification ideas that I know are under consideration now. And, but I think broadly there's been some conversation the fitness centers also got together this week about how to just understand the process of decisions being made moving forward as we potentially move the state potentially moves into a new phase or there's updated public health guidance and things like that. You're right. Mayor that the gyms are among those who received updated public health guidance from the state this week on outdoor fitness activities. And in general, the, the reason that I'm asking about the decision making processes and the public communication of that is there's some recognition of the difference between public. Public health updates that are coming out and then what's written into the order and while everyone is the community is generally interested in certainly abiding by everything that we are doing locally. The types of questions that I think outdoor fitness and others are getting our along the lines of the state has a number out there. We locally have a number out there. I want to feel safe. The customers want to feel that they the information that's coming out from the city and county is affirming what they think is important for their customers as well. And so I do think that it's important for the work to move to get ahead on the voluntary self certification program. Yeah, well, let me just comment on that. You know, we're the, the, we, you know, our orders always lag the public health guidance, the public health guidance comes out, and then we revise our orders accordingly. And so, especially now I mean at the very beginning we were all making a lot of very, you know, quick difficult decisions with very incomplete information we have much better information now it's very different process that thank goodness. But we're the reason that we have as you mentioned the roundtables and the self certification is that for people to bring to us. You know, if I'm wide open to, as I've told the real estate people I know Wendy is as well. Bring us your bring us your safe practices and your and your voluntary self certification around the around the real estate business and we're, you know, very happy to monitor monitor, you know, modify our order similarly with the, with the gyms if they're outdoor safe practices and they want to bring those to us and they think our limit is too low. The two areas where we are different from the state the three areas where we're significantly different the state is one is the 10 limit on the mass gatherings. Two is the no real estate roundtables and I'm sorry no real estate open houses. And the third of course is the face coverings. And so if those two industries have, you know, bring us the self certification, the voluntary self certification and the in the same practices were, we're happy to to take all that in and modify our order accordingly. So that is the point of the roundtables right really is is to be able to get that from from the industry experts, and then pair that with any guidance from public health, and, and, and certainly Dr. Royo also provides that epidemiologic and infection prevention guidance as well, and pair that together so that we can advise this task force with the roundtables can advise Mayor Shul and Commissioner Jacobs so Sure, well, thanks for all those clarifications and I do think in general there's been additional up, uptick of our communities participation in the count on me in C program as one way that people can signal that. But we did have some good conversation and I know there's some things moving forward. I don't want to take anything away from a later item on the, the local voluntary self certification process that folks are coming up with but a lot of roundtables are are developing that guidance and are looking forward to integrating it into the programs that are presented. I'll note that there are additional roundtables that have started to meet. We have plans now for sports and recreation, entertainment and cultural venues. Parks outdoor events and festivals and several others to get together and that'll certainly be important as we recognize others may be moving around us into different phases of what's going on at the state level. And there is in general this continued conversation about resources. I think there's been some really good progress made locally on some financial resources. But there is continued interest in what is PPE supply look like locally for folks and so glad that there's great work going on around the task force on that. We have had really good public support in from both the health side and the the permitting and regulation side on trying to get direct answers to individual roundtables. And so we had a great one on restaurants this week. And I'd love to give Susan and Nicole the opportunity if you've got any specific takeaways from those. I'll also ask for anything from the barbershop salons and personal services that Ed and I held yesterday afternoon and certainly want to hear from Dr. Davis about places of worship. But I do want to give the opportunity if there are specific other questions or thoughts and want to say a big thank you. This Russia Goldberg did mention earlier that she had connected the realtors with from different communities together and we are appreciative of her doing that and looking to do as much outreach to make all of our roundtables representative of the different industry. That we're working on. So yeah, I'll kind of open it up to those roundtable leaders that have met this week. Well, I'll jump in here and talk a little bit about restaurant bill to clear it's waiting right now it's been passed by the House and Senate and is in the governor's lap right now. There's a lot of speculation back and forth it seems about whether he will not sign it or whether about the degree to which they can expand outdoors and so they're very interested in that. I think another issue of course is the fact that for our downtown restaurants many of those are boarded up and there's discussion going on about when it might be people will feel safe to take the plywood down and think they'll have a huge positive impact and I know Nicole's advocated for that happening as quickly as possible, but I think it will depend on when people feel comfortable doing that. And I know there's Nicole can speak to all the work that they're doing on how we would provide for outdoor seating space for the restaurants and there's one more piece I'll turn it over to her is one more piece that happening which is still a lot of discussion about the level of support that the restaurants might be able to get from the city and the county and the way of funding. And there's a meeting that happens after this one where they're going to I think they're going to talk further about that. So Nicole fill in all the gaps I left. Morning everybody. We are watching with great interest what happens at the state level with this ABC or bill would be great if we could get that through as a lot of the downtown restaurants have said serving outside would be I won't say pointless but they really would like the opportunity to expand how they can serve alcohol when they're also serving food. So this has slowed us down a little bit and my hope is that the our state politicians will do what's best for our economy and push that through. But we're waiting to hear around the downtown area and the outbreak eating. We continue to work with the city. We had a great meeting last week with the planning department transportation parking. Public health and general services. I mean I know that they've had internal meetings that is moving forward. We have come up with a layout that seems to work that that should be able to work for most of the downtown businesses and again I can I can only speak to the work that we're doing within the downtown area from Golden Belt to East Campus and the old ball park to 147. So just so everyone knows the area that we're very focused on with a concentration in the loop where most of our restaurants are but certainly not all of them. So we continue to work. The city has what we have provided and they're putting together the guidelines. We're now in the space of trying to find resources for the restaurants so when they open they don't have to buy or go out and try to find this. So we're going to start reaching out to our partners at the city and the county to see if we can find barriers especially for anyone that is using a parking space so that we can protect folks sitting in parking spaces from on traffic. At this time we're not actively. Supporting or pushing for closures closures of roads complete streets we have considered and we are talking with the city about maybe closing some lanes at very specific times of the day. But recognizing that a lot of our streets are used by buses and delivery and just people who are coming back to work so not wanting to impact any of those individuals. So it's it's growing. I think we're very close to to something that that we should be ready to roll out. But we were trying to address these these last little little issues. Anyone on the call who has access to barriers chairs tables tents umbrellas who would be willing to offer these to the businesses either at a very significant reduced rate or just because you want to support the opening of the restaurants we would greatly appreciate that and you can send your information to me and I will pass it on to Rachel Wexler who is doing a lot of the work on on DDI's behalf on this but we are actively looking for those those things now that is an additional cost that the businesses recognize and are trying to figure out how best they could do it. And it is too great of a cost for us to do alone DDI to do alone and finally I will say that we we did watch the City Council meeting yesterday and the conversation around the small businesses and we recognize since we're talking about restaurants that the way that is currently structured with the limit of 25 will impact quite a few of our downtown restaurants who have more than 25 employees. So I would imagine that that will come up in today's conversation that starts at 10 o'clock because because they too were watching that. So we will report back what we hear but we appreciate all of the work of the city and the county. We appreciate that there is a small business assistance program that has been crafted and does seem to be moving and we look forward to pushing that out to all of our businesses in support and I will throw out there that and Brian I think I sent you a text but I will throw out there that the retail businesses are asking when there will be a retail roundtable. So they see that the restaurants are getting the attention and we hear this quite often restaurants get the attention. What about the others. So I'm happy to work with you Ryan Brian on trying to set up a retail roundtable recognizing that there's a number of retail restaurants outside of our downtown but that is something that I'm hearing probably from the majority of our retail businesses now that they are anxious and would like to have a conversation around that Noticing that open and are operating under the 50% with the social distancing and trying to make sure that they are only allowing the maximum number of people within their spaces. Sure and there have been some conversations along the industry but we had not done a formal roundtable and so we'll look to do that next week. It is one of the industries that is somewhat covered by the count on me and see training and so I think they'll be anxious to see what that local compliment to that is to be able to help them and their customers. Thank you. I had missed an email I was really concerned that I missed an email so You're fine and thanks to everyone we are looking to refine the process so that it's a little bit easier to plug in for yourselves and for our businesses for the short term and long term. I do think there's going to be an opportunity to have some of this work expand beyond the The task force generally you know a lot of these sectors had already had some informal meetings and some formal meetings before this. Some have expressed a desire to continue it beyond you know the immediate recovery need and I think that there are some several organizations represented here and otherwise that will help play that role. But I also think it's been great for those that maybe only had convened via a Facebook group in the past to have some some formal structure and be able to have their thoughts and voices heard so I do want to give an opportunity for Mr. Boyd and for Dr. Davis on some of the specific roundtables they were in but I also know we need to move on. Just quickly. I think we were Brian and I were were admonished yesterday by the massage therapists that wanted to make sure that we mentioned that they had been reading a lot of massage verbiage around massage parlors and they wanted to make sure that we understood that they were not parlors and that they were actually therapists and they would prefer that that that verbiage is corrected. I just want to put that out. The personal services barbershops beauty salons. I think it was nails and anestheticians anestheticians excuse me. There's still a lot of concern because none of them actually have statewide are getting good statewide guidance. They're also they're they're all led by statewide licensing boards but they don't feel like there's an adequate information given to them to them. And just a sheer nature of all of their businesses goes directly against every recommendation that's being put out that tells us how to prevent ourselves from from from contact contracting Kobe 19 and from spreading it. The other thing I think is just to to the last point because one of the one of the business owners downtown actually think she was downtown or Brightley Square actually was was concerned and and one and update on some of the black barbershops that had mentioned on the first call kind of what they were going through. We've kind of seen a similar a relative drop off in the participation on from them as well on the round table. But there's a huge concern just in that in that community in the community because you're talking about a business that it's really getting in upwards of 85 to 90 percent of their revenue generated from the exact same community. And so with that community also being adversely affected by the by the by unemployment. There's this trickle down effect of these businesses that is devastating and one of them. Mr. Lynn Lilly who's been a barber since 93. I think he said he has barbershop on West the West End. Just mentioned how the importance that he felt he served for so long in the community of not just being a barber but just being a you know almost a counselor and a leading figure in the community. And that he had been spending a lot of time just texting clients and community and people in the community just trying to keep updates. But I think Brian can you know attest this there seem to be a lot of I don't know I felt some some hopelessness there from from some of them. A lot of them obviously are husbands fathers leaders of families and and have been providers you know for years and are just at a crossroads and I don't know if Task Force has answers I know I didn't have answers. But I definitely wanted to I mean they they they stepped out of a comfort zone enough to share share that. So I definitely want to present that in this public forum as possible and then I'll take off. Brian this is Lois I just want to ask a quick question and that is to what degree at these roundtables are are folks asking about just navigating all the different types of guidance. For example you know you're talking about workers and customers and the general public and even if we're talking about restaurants operating differently. Well you have CDC guidelines you have ADA guidelines you have OSHA compliance right. So to what degree does does that seem like to be an issue or concern just knowing how to navigate the different types and levels of guidance that people need to pay attention to and how do we support that in any way. Sure and that's where I think ideas like the local voluntary self certification program are great in trying to help get that to one place for now I applaud again the county and specifically the public health department. I think that there's great updates coming to the dco public health dot org website constantly. And there includes some information there that is generally aggregates that that guidance from different places but it is difficult to to check the CDC website every day. I've been trying to do that for some of these industries. And so I think the information that the information is out there but you're right that it is hard to to stay updated. And so I think it's great for all of us to try to figure out how we can help do that move forward. Dr. Davis I know that you continue to meet with your round table and that is a concern with places of worship as well who are getting some interim guidance and updates but Yeah, thank you, Brian. One of the things that the places of worship round table has been focused on and we're hoping to have this document of best practices slash procedures. We're hoping to have that together next week. We've set a target for Wednesday. We'll hope and pray that we're able to do that. But what we're what we've been doing, everybody has been asked if you have information from your denominations associations. Anywhere so and so we've developed thanks to Ryan a folder where we've been able to collect all of these in these things and we're looking to develop this was probably right now two stages. So kind of your prep and then what to do before you open and we're trying to also keep in mind that there are places of worship that have already open. So the information can be used for them, but then also it can be used for those that will be opening. And so far, we're like I said we're getting a lot of positive feedback and input. And so we're hoping to be able to put something together that I guess you would say has has some teeth to it, but then also it allows people to look at it and have some direction. And so one of the things and I'll be finished. One of the things that has come up repeatedly is how will we get this information out, because there's so many places of worship that some have physical addresses some don't. So we'll be working to kind of do something with that we're hoping to have it on the, you know, city and county sites and things help with that. But that's something that if people will have any insight and assistance with that once we're finished will be definitely needing some help there. Thank you. I was going to comment on that if I could. It's a great segue because I know that for each of these roundtables, we might have half a dozen to several dozen people on the call. And it's a very small percentage of all of the people in that sector in the Durham economy and something that we need to be very mindful of one of the things that communications team has done is and is in the process of doing is assigning essentially a communications manager to each one of the roundtables who has some responsibility for that group and the charge for them is to go out and figure out how to communicate with all of the business owners in that sector. In some cases, it's fairly straightforward. And certainly many of us as part of this task force or leaders in the community have access to some data about some of these sectors. But it's far from being an exhaustive way of reaching out to people. So if you all have additional data sources. That is very helpful. We're also looking to leverage all of the social media accounts and existing communication channels of our different organizations as much as possible. And then we've asked people to just look and try and be creative and figure out some ways to get out to people. A hairdresser somewhere along the way I'd gotten an email about the protocols that one hair salon was going to follow and I sent it to my hairdresser and she was so grateful because she was really struggling with how to create something by herself. And she's mentioned that she went on and forwarded to a bunch of her friends who really appreciated having it and it's just evidence that people are really struggling to figure out how to get to this information and we should be thinking about which of you may have some access to some particular channels that would be relevant here and if so please do let us know. But we're going to continue to work on how we get that information out there. We're also looking at how we can create a centralized hub a website or landing page where people can go but you still have to point people to it just because you build a website doesn't mean everyone knows to come so if everybody can be thoughtful about that it'll be really helpful to all of us. Well on that I want to again applaud we've got some great. Assistant coming from the public sector in what their employees are doing for example the inspectors and others in certain industries I think are being very communicative with best practices when they go out. But I think the integration of the communication strategy the round table strategy and the long term economic strategy will be very important moving forward. Alrighty, so thank you Brian and everyone for the updates on the round table. Really appreciate it. I'm going to move us to the next item on our agenda. And I just want to say to everyone I really appreciate all the great work that you've done and all the great work that I know that you will continue to do over the next couple of months. It's really great to be on this task force with so many hard work and committed engaged individuals so many thanks to you for that. The next item on our agenda relates to our priority areas and of course we have a whole list of priority areas, but we only have agenda space to cover a couple of those in any given meeting. So there's a couple that we want to focus on today and the first relates to economic recovery. And I'm going to ask Jeff and maybe Anthony to give us a brief update on just what's been done in that space and any support that you may currently need from the task force as a whole. Dr. Nelson to me to start off and then I'll kick it over to you. Feel free to jump in whenever. Great. So Dr. Nelson and I had a chance to catch up on a couple of occasions. This week sort of means going on with our role with all the task force and is going to require a lot more feedback my frozen. In my back. You sound much better than my back now. Okay, sorry about that. I'm not sure where I when you realize when you're talking and everybody else is frozen something has gone wrong. And it's probably with me. So I think we're back now. I apologize. I don't know where I dropped off. So I'll kind of start from the beginning. So through a number of our conversations. We realize that the task is much much more of a longer game and it's going to require more input than just the what Dr. Nelson and I can come up with we realize that there's probably room for some committee type work that is born from this task force. Anthony mentioned he had been talking in detail with with Ed Boyd for a while. I know Susan, Nicole and I have had a number of different conversations. We'd love to bring Pilar into this discussion as well. So our thought was is that because it's a longer game and even though there is some economic data that's come out recently that this is going to be sort of a potentially a V shaped recovery. We need to be prepared to work beyond just the term of this task force. So what we're planning to do is convene this group again born from the task force members at some point next week just to sort of start plotting out sort of what this recovery looks like. One of the things we discussed was the need to identify certain metrics things like net new jobs and unemployment percentages, but make sure that we overlay that data with with racial data to make sure that we're ensuring an equitable recovery as well as overlaying that data with specific industry trends. I think we've all recognized that in all likelihood there's going to be a there are going to be some industries that recover quicker and there are going to be some industries that are slower to recover. So that's going to require this group to start looking at things like pivoting in skill sets. Maybe there's a pivot in an industry sector because you know what you're what you're actively doing now maybe that job's not waiting for you. I think there's a huge opportunity for us to retrain our citizens. We had a huge announcement this week with Grail coming from the West Coast. Looking at 400 new jobs and 111 million dollars worth of investment. The big fallacy there is not all of those are high level R&D. We can get those jobs filled without advanced degrees. We can do them through high school, high school graduation as well as some training through Durham Tech. So we need to make sure that we message that to all of our communities to make sure that people realize these are accessible jobs. And I think there's a significant part of what we do as a group from an awareness standpoint throughout all of our communities to let folks know that there are opportunities waiting for them at the end of this COVID experience certainly. So that's sort of where what we're looking at at this point. You guys the folks that I rattled off. You can look for an email from Anthony and I trying to convene coming weeks, but it's a it's a longer game that I think we all need to be recognizing the fact that while it's going to be a steeper a quicker ramp up for places as fortunate as Durham. Ultimately, I think the work is going to exceed the life expectancy of this task force. Thank you for that Jeff and it's really good to hear that you guys are thinking strategically and you're thinking about what happens after and I don't know how many days we have left but after our initial 100 days because you know if there's work that still needs to be done. That's an offshoot of this task force I really hope that we can figure out how do we continue to move that work along so thanks for thinking strategically about that. And I'll turn it over to Anthony. Great. Thanks, Jeff pretty much summed it up. You know, it's definitely going to be a long term process. We're certainly looking at those KPIs or those those metrics that are extremely important just as we're concerned about the physical health. We're also concerned about the economic health and which industries are doing well and which industries are not and how can we help individuals move towards those industries that may be doing better and what can we do to help industries that are not doing as well. So it's a matter of looking at those those metrics and you know the number of businesses that are lost number of businesses that that start the net new businesses that the revenue generated by the businesses the unemployment rates. So getting all that data to help us shine a light on where the problem areas are and where the good areas are and then looking at comparative data. I would suspect that, you know, there are national averages out there that we would want to compare ourselves to to find out what, you know, how we're doing so. You know, it's it's a matter of taking our temperature economically and finding out where those rough spots are and then something about it. So, but I think, you know, Jeff kind of hit it on the on the button in terms of being able to gather a group of people so that we can get as much of this data as possible. Alrighty, thank you for that. And just looking forward to that core group coming together and continuing to move this along. The next item we have relate to voluntary cooperation and communications because I think in our first meeting and then subsequent meetings there was a lot of conversations around how do we have folks voluntarily comply. As we move to continuing to open things up in Durham. So I'm going to ask Mario to give us an update on the voluntary self certification tool for businesses. Great. I'm happy to do that. I also did have a quick question for Dr Nelson and and and Jeff around, you know, as we are opening up like this is sort of relevant on the voluntary compliance thing. You know, there are lots of businesses that now can open and are choosing not to because they still don't feel like it's safe. And so I'm curious if you guys are hearing anything from those businesses that are allowed to be opening, but are choosing not to what are they waiting for what's that information that they're waiting for to feel comfortable opening. And I'm wondering if that's just in the discussion at all. I would suspect that those types of conversations are happening in the round table so and I haven't really been privy to many of the round table discussions so I'll let Jeff take that for for add even. I think I might be familiar with that. I'll defer to Brian he's on all of them and the ones that I've jumped on I've jumped on several of them also. And I've just been hearing fear and not knowing when went to open. Honestly, things like they just been sitting back waiting to see how things go with those who do open. Yeah, I would just point Mario, you want to go Brian. Okay, I'll jump in from an office standpoint. Many businesses are finding that they will first off many of them just moved and pivoted to work remotely. And so the official opening of an office where you have somebody, you know, sitting behind a counter bug me people in. You know that that's not as quite as necessary because they're realizing that you know maybe you can roll that back a little bit slower. Certainly I think probably from a from a restaurant standpoint to retail standpoint where there's a lot of that. That most closer contact and prolonged contact. There is an element of fear when I've listened into a few of those, those conversations. That's sort of what I'm getting is some of that level of apprehension. And also that it's not necessarily a terribly a, you know, the thing about going out to a restaurant or experiencing retail it's very, very, it's personal and it's supposed to be escapism and we are reminded of the difficult times we're in when we go to certain places and everybody's wearing masks and saying separated and so there's a reluctance I think from the consumer to engage in that level of activity as well. So I think that that's sort of where people sort of slowly testing the waters. The administrative side of like a lot of our larger corporations in our lab work, they are still functionally made being able to manage that remotely. And so I think that that's kind of a kind of a balance there between personal personal safety, the ability to still be productive. And we also have to remember that, you know, many of our workers are have children school age children, and many of them are still trying to, you know, finish up home school and or figure out what the cancer situation is going to be like. And it's hard to physically dive right back into the office and I think employers are taking that into consideration as well. Just, that's all anecdotal and based on conversations nothing, no statistics there necessarily. Yeah, and I just quickly note, I think there is a combination of consumer confidence employee confidence and some of the relief programs that are out there are still, you know, very actively supporting some of the employees and the short term needs there and so as we get to see what what's going on in other parts of the country in the rest of the state. I do think that there's a lot that are recognizing that even as they reopen it may be at a limited capacity. For example, I think some plenty of restaurants are choosing to continue to do just curbside and delivery only right now. But it'll be, I think we're figuring out how to move from the short term into whatever the medium term looks like. Yeah, thanks. Um, so I'll give a quick update on the checklist assessment self, you know, self assessment tool. And so we now have draft versions for a wide variety of different types of businesses. It includes restaurants, personal services, gyms, event venues, hotels, hotels with gyms, hotels with restaurants, hotels with pools, other type of hotels that don't have those grocery retail and places of worship. And we have this week we got great feedback from several folks on this call who previewed the tool and particularly Dr. Acoboio and and Director Jenkins and also Katie of course. It's very, very helpful. We are incorporating that feedback now going through and making revisions and we very much hope to be able to send each of those tailored checklists to each of the roundtables because we think that that's a really important next step is to make sure that we're getting as well to just does it make intuitive sense about how it works? Does it feel like it's relevant and speaks to their own business or organization? And so that's sort of that very next step. In addition, of course, we have to think about where this lives. It's a digital experience. And so we've been working with McKinney in sort of creating the wrap around experience with the tool that includes, of course, a website landing page for it. And so just actually last night they presented out the wireframes and website designs and some of the templates for materials. So we're giving them some feedback and also Till Day, which is the language justice organization that the city is working with to make sure that also the materials are relevant and accessible to our Spanish speaking population. So they are also reviewing all the materials to make sure that it will also just to give that feedback to make sure that it resonates with those populations and that it will be easily, it will be something that can translate into other languages. And so we are sending that feedback back to McKinney to make some additional changes tweaks. We're hoping to have all of that finalized early next week. The developer for the website is also already looped in has materials and sort of exploring right now technicalities, but feels like everything's going to be totally doable. And so we are obviously we, we wish this could have been done weeks ago, we know that that would have been beneficial but we're all working as as fast as we can. But I wanted to give an opportunity for questions I know that we've talked a lot about this. And, you know, not everybody has had a chance to see it yet. But I, but I did want to answer. Yeah, answer some questions and I just I also want to know, you know, what you know we're working as hard as we can. And, and, you know, the the center of course we're we're donating our time and effort to this. And additionally McKinney also donated their time and effort to it so we're lucky and happy to be able to provide that back to the city and the county. Thanks so much, Marielle. Lots of great work and as I think I heard Susan make the comment about she shared information with a her hairdresser that she got from another. And that's kind of cascaded my hope is that this, these checklists will really enable a wide variety of businesses to feel comfortable opening without having to do all the homework themselves. So really great work here. Any questions for Marielle before I turn it over to Susan to talk a little bit about the communications team. And just to just to emphasize that that point Misha is that, you know, this is something that we have seen that we've seen some businesses that are very, very good at this right so some business are already doing all of these things that are on the checklist. And then there are and so this will feel like a redundant exercise for them right and we acknowledge that and understand it, which is why we're trying to keep it, you know, pretty streamlined and fairly easy to move through. But this is exactly for those businesses like the hairdresser that is like I don't have a huge team behind me to figure out how it's the right way to do this. And so really trying to take those best practices that a lot of businesses are doing and help share those easily digestibly and actionably with with other businesses that just don't have that same sort of level of resources that some of the different organizations have. And, and of course, and of course the the other major component getting back to this idea of how do we build up that consumer confidence is that it has a front facing component for for consumers to get visibility and sort of commitment around what different businesses are doing. And I would note that something that McKinney also brought to the lens is making sure that there's also a lot of language tied in about the things that residents also need to be doing. Because one of the things that we heard from Brian and other folks who joined a sort of multi sector round table for us to listen in on and ask questions. Is that, you know, a lot of businesses aren't just concerned about their ability and actually many are less concerned about their ability to, you know, keep the space. The way it needs to be and keep their staff doing the things that they need to do but how do they control the customers that come in and aren't social distancing and aren't wearing masks and. And so we're also, that's been a nice additional ad is really focusing on the customer confidence that they can trust that this business is doing things but also some really clear messaging and focus on the responsibilities that that residents also have to make sure that Durham is opening in a way that can that it can stay open. Great. Thanks Mario. Thanks so much for that. Looks like near sure has a comment. It's just a question. But yeah, first of all, wow, this is awesome. We, I'm so excited and I think this is the first time that we've had the reveal about McKinney being involved with the design and they have been donating their services and I'm really excited about the combination of having the Center for Advanced Hindsight's thinking and the McKinney's expertise in communication is fabulous. So my question involves the last thing that you were talking about I was thinking about this. After you do the work on the checklist for the businesses. I wonder is there is some similar kind of confidence building measures. A checklist for customers or consumers, you know that our community people would themselves sign on to Mario, you know, I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this but where there is a similar kind of checklist that you know these are the things as I'm I pledge to be a good customer a good consumer a good, you know, you know, I'm not exactly sure, but I just wonder if you all have been thinking also about that as a kind of next step. Yeah, I think that's a great question. We've thought a lot about how different folks can demonstrate their commitment. It's not just that you just taking a pledge or something. You know we do think that like having the commitment and the pledge is really helpful we know that that's something that count on me has incorporated is this guest pledge. So we want to think about how we would integrate with that rather than just sort of duplicate it perhaps. We've thought a lot about we know the real important part of not just acknowledging for yourself that you're doing this but ways to signal to other people that you're doing this because that helps really create a social norm that this is, this is what we do in Durham of course this is we follow different things and and by broadcasting that and showing that which we think is a really important component it helps really to some of the pillars earlier points it helps reduce the stigma about wearing masks, it helps because it emphasized the fact that this is something everyone is doing and it makes people feel sort of less awkward and weird when they're the only ones who are adhering to these. So it's really so we're also thinking about how do we demonstrate and share that in different ways. And that's a great point about you know making sure we figure out ways to incorporate the town on the NC guest pledge, if that feels relevant appropriate. Thank you very well. Yeah, I know you guys are still working out some final details on graphics and the the concept thing work with McKinney, but you all will bring it to this group when it's ready. I think that'll be great for everybody to see and understand what that messaging is you do you know what your timeline is for that right. Um, that's a great so we are providing we're trying to provide feedback so we got the presentation from McKinney last night and we are trying to provide feedback to them by end of day today and we expect they'll be making those revisions on I would say Monday or Tuesday. So we're really expanding that out and then, and I know that we are also getting the input from from till day today as well. So, we would assume it will be. I would say by mid mid week next week. Great. I'm communications team standpoint. We're the heart of what is this group is communicating is what Mario is just very excited to see this work come forward and have that they're creating. And that sets the stage for a lot of other things to have the graphics and some of them key messaging concepts. So very we're having a hard time here. Yeah. I'm sorry. Okay, that's better. Okay, I can hear you all fine. So, we've had it was a good week for communications we've had new volunteers join the group, which is helpful, especially since our number roundtables has been expanding and we want to make sure that we have people dedicated to each roundtable to make sure that we are communicating out to each one of those business sectors and very pleased that we've got till day on board to help with the translation work. So we talked a lot about the main pieces of creating that communication and finding ways to get it out into the community. That works underway. We're also the communications team is also working on a longer term plan to look for what are the kinds of trigger events that would mean that we need additional communication. So when we move to a new phase, if there were an uptick and we needed to make some correction on our reopening plans. So the team is planning for those kinds of possibilities. And how that information goes out. So there's just a lot of effort going on now to plan out all of the components of this and start to push this messaging out of all these the graphics and checklists and things ready to go. All right, excellent. Lots of great work. So with three minutes left. I just want to add a quick appreciation of Susan and the communications team they have been bootstrapping this thing they've gotten volunteers and from the various organizations Susan's been on a great job leading it and I just really am grateful because they've done a lot and it's been super important. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you but just want to get that in. Appreciate that. Thank you. And I need to give a heads appreciation to Margaret and track who's really been leading this on an everyday every week basis. Thank you, thank you. So with three minutes left on the agenda I'm going to close this out unless there's something that's pressing on anyone's mind that you want to cover. And the last two minutes that we have. So I just want to open the floor up for that so anything that's really pressing on anyone's mind that you don't think we gave any justice to today that you want to bring to the task force attention. If I could just one minute. Yeah, just one. I just wanted to say literally I've just been sitting here thinking about it. As we engage in the work that we're all doing. I don't I don't want it to fall short that there, there are those of us that are this is this is being done over a terrain of implicit bias racism and etc. And black women in this country have have there the responsibility or the burden of being what we call the double minority right. And I just think that some acknowledgement publicly should be made today from every one of us, you know, whether it's just checking on a black woman that you know or just uplifting her praying for whatever the case may be I just I don't want to lose sight of the thing that while we're all truly in this together. There are those of us that are kind of bearing the burden of this in a different way and have and have continued to do so for years. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you. Thank you for that. I really appreciate you sharing those thoughts and ask that you do just what it said. I think it would be greatly appreciated. All right. Well, it looks like we're at 959 so with the last minute left again many thanks to all the great work that everyone continues to do. I've just been amazed at how much we've done and I think I saw Ryan say, we have 79 days left, which means we've been working together collectively as a task force for about 20 days and as I think about the things that we've done over the past 20 days, it truly blows my mind. And as I think about the next 80 days that we have before us are 79 days. I know that we're going to continue to do great things at the task force. So many thanks to all of you and I hope all of you have a great weekend and looking forward to our next meeting on next Friday. Everyone take care. Thanks everyone. Thank you.