 going to talk to us about move in today. Hey everybody we're glad to have you here and welcome to our move in 2020 thing as we talk about our Facebook live. We are outside of Reed Hall right now on the north end of campus and as you can tell there appears to be a thunderstorm that is trying to roll in with us. So we're going to try to talk really loud and use it if you can't hear us please write in and let us know and we'll adjust the mic as best we can to go through. So first I've got my face mask on here we're going to start answering a little questions about COVID because we know that that is one of the key things that you want to talk about and you're thinking about or maybe you want to forget by this point I think we're all kind of at that point too but how that's going to affect move in 2020 specifically and look a little different. So first of all I got the face covering here you have to wear your face covering as you come to campus it is a requirement from not only the state but campus as well so we're excited you know that you're going to have that we're also going to give you some PPE equipment when you arrive so hopefully that will be here in the next couple weeks for sure to have that in your room but bring a face covering with you to go. You'll probably see me pulling on this a little bit to go when I talk really loudly so you guys can hear me it kind of slides down a little bit and it's extremely windy so we're going to work with it out here. I remember a couple things just like you were if you were anywhere else social distancing as best that you can stay six feet apart wear your mask same message you would hear out in the public but we want you to be smart when you come to campus as well. Once you get inside the building for your elevators we do ask them for move-in day that you limit the elevators to just you and your immediate family to go through that way we can do as you come back down please take stairs as much as you can if you have a situation you can't take stairs we'll certainly accommodate you with that request but if you can take the stairs back down leave the the families coming up an elevator we appreciate that. One thing that we have asked to do on move-in that's a little bit different this is probably our biggest change with COVID-19 in the past you pulled up in a parking lot we've given you 30 minutes to unload your vehicle we've had some volunteers from the community from school different things that would help this year because of COVID we're trying to obviously enter you know stop the interactions a little bit like we normally would so we will not have volunteers helping you move your items in your room this year however because of that we're expanding the time frame that you have within the parking lot from 30 minutes to 45 minutes so let's just say we're in reed we turn into our parking lot here there will be staff members wearing vests like I have on that will greet you welcome you into the parking lot as you come through your park you can see just like we have here at reed you're really close to the front entrance to the building so in all of our buildings we're getting used close as we possibly can to the buildings on move-in day you'll have 45 minutes to unload your car take your items up to your room and then at the end of the 45 minutes we're going to talk about arrival passes in a second with some great information there but you'll move your car at the end of the 45 minute session for there and then we also ask that you bring only two people with you to move in again to help with social distancing to help with crowds to help with elevators just truly common sense items that you would know we've gotten a few questions about what if I have a minor with me that you know it's maybe a brother or sister who can't I don't have anywhere to leave them can I bring them we just ask if it possible only two people in the building at the same time if you can if you can do that with possibility and if you have a minor hey be smart they need to wear a face mask use hand sanitizer wash their hands same things you would hear at any other location to go through but that's kind of what it looks like differently with COVID-19 as we go through our move-in process this year this is a pretty obvious reminder but please don't bring pets to move in day with you for a couple reasons one you can't take them inside the building second of all it's hot in the vehicles and we don't want you to have to leave your pet in the vehicle in the car while you're moving your stuff in so please don't do that please don't bring your pets with you to move in dollies and elevators we kind of mentioned elevators are limited to one family at a time if you have a dolly you have a card or something like that they can help you with your items on move-in day please bring that with you we have a few that you can check out but as the semester goes on and time goes deeper in the day we just have a limited amount we can't handle every single person that move in so please bring your own cart dolly moving equipment that'll help you make your move-in day a little bit quicker and easier our move-in website if you hopefully have been on that during the summer but movein.uark.edu we encourage you to go to that website the biggest thing I want you to point out there is about two weeks ago we added routes and maps to your building and you may say I don't need that I got my GPS what's actually right the opposite of that and we'll use Reed Hall is a great example if you on move-in day kind of look out this way this is Cleveland Street and right here this would actually be blocked off where you would not be able to make a left hand turn on move-in day so if you were in the quad or the maples right down the street and you decided to come in from the north on garland and turn left on Cleveland you couldn't get in your parking lot because you can't turn left so please follow the parking maps that are on there it will get you the most right hand turns we definitely say we want to be like FedEx right hand right hand right hand turn as quickly as possible that will get you to your lot on move in day so please do that follow those maps to make your move-in day smoother now let's take Reed Hall it's another great example of why you need to use the parking map if you look you would think that that would be the entrance in and I'll just come up razor back and that will be it that is not how you get into Reed Hall actually there is a staging area that is back behind the Pat Walker health center that will be available for students in Reed Hall and students who are in Maple Hill West they will go through the staging area and then will be released into Maple Hill into the Reed area so if you come up razor back on move-in day from Maple Hill West to Reed to turn in you won't be able to get in the parking lot unless you came from the staging area and we're released into it so little things like that to help adobe he's a little bit different because we're parallel parking on a closed street lots of little tweaks will happen like that follow those move-in maps for us also want to mention for parking spaces for parents after and before so if you look at your parking pass that christopher's got right here with me on the back of the parking pass you will see some qr codes one will be for Harman garage one for garland garage and one for lot 56 this is generic one so it has all three on it but if you were on the south end of campus you would see a Harman garage parking permit if you were in yoke them or something like that if you're in the north you would see garland on your permit to go through you can scan this qr code it will show you where to go park after your 45 minutes have surpassed and for students we encourage you to go to lot 56 the easiest way to remember that that's the big parking lot south of bud walk and arena north of the Chick-fil-A off of mok that'll be a parking lot we will close the parking lots every single day for the next day of move-in so that way we can have a great open parking lot for you guys when you get here on move-in day to go through so please make sure that you follow these guides and maps hopefully this will help you to get back there'll be people in the parking lot who can assist you as well as you go through your move-in days a couple just tip typical reminders we don't allow u-hauls into the parking lot so do not bring a u-haul with you to move in day because you will not be allowed into the parking lot with it um u-haul and then we mentioned u-hauls drink water we're looking at the initial forecast for next week it's supposed to be in the low 90s and and no rain except for maybe Tuesday so it's going to be a little warm make sure your drinking water staying hydrated common sense items right there then right here beside us and i'm gonna walk slowly this way um this is a cardboard recycling area that we have every building has one of these set up close to it um and then if we can turn a little bit to this way you'll see a dumpster we're right out here by the maples that'll be an area where you can throw your trash away so trash will go in dumpsters like that recycling will go there there and there's currently nothing in here our team has already picked it up but if you do have a cardboard box please stick it in here break it down and put it in the box and we'll recycle that um we have a company we weren't with it works with a great recycling program so we can do that to go through um we've mentioned this before in other sessions that we've done check your urk email it's very important um to do that the day before move in we will send you a urk email that'll just be some reminders how to check the move in mouth how to do um you know just common sense reminders as you get closer to move in day but uh if there is something that happens the day before on move in day and we need to adjust the parking route um or something like that we would include it in that map and we included that prayer day move in map so an email so please make sure you're checking that because if something changes that's how we're going to communicate that with you as well also I'd encourage you to follow our social media channels particularly on twitter we'll put in some move in updates pictures and things like that um I remember four years ago um we had to alternate some routes during move in day because we had a gas leak on razorback and it shut down razorback so we had to change all of our move in routes so we communicated that through social media um as best we could so check that social media follow that during move in day we'll give you some great tips there um weather readiness we kind of mentioned that initial forecast looks pretty good for us a little hot but no rain if we do have lightning we will stop move in um for the safety of the staff out in the parking lots um so what happens if we get into a delay we ask that you not drive into the parking lot because we don't want you out in the lightning and weather either our staff will come inside and then we'll kind of adjust our day and pick things back up and be flexible with you with the move in day but we ask that please if there is lightning please don't come into the parking lots um that you can stage in lot 56 on the south end of campus or one of the parking garages um on campus as well until the severe weather goes around we will keep updated on our website um to go through so to make sure that if you have any questions about things that to go through with that um and then right behind us uh Christopher is here with us he's been holding the flag because the wind is blowing so hard it would kill our sound volume but um as you turn into your lot you will see a flag like this now if you notice on your parking pass that you received um it's a different color your color will match this map this flag that as you turn into your parking lot so that will help you as you come into the edges of campus you will also see signs that will have arrows that are color coded um that will help you so basically follow your color code it will get you to where you want to go if you happen to get lost on move in day um with your arrival pass take this hang tag put it in your vehicle in your hang tag you should have gotten two in the mail um one for you and one for a parent if the phone number on the bottom of yours is incorrect um please just print that in force that would be super helpful um to go through so a student at reed would have a pink yeah so a student at reed or maple hill west would have this color uh pass and a diamond to go through and also for color for color issues as well we have some uh specific shapes as well to help you out with with that uh as we go through so check those flags check those colors as you're coming to campus and follow the maps if you follow your move in maps you'll get in very quickly it'll be really really efficient for you and very quick as you get into the parking lot to go remember you'll have 45 minutes to unload your cars that doesn't mean you have 45 minutes in your room that just means you have 45 minutes to unload and take things to your room and we jokingly say you can stay in your room as long until the student until your student kicks you out so if you're a parent watching that until the parent the student tells you to go uh you can stay in the room as long as you would like with your student you just have 45 minutes with access to the parking lot to get your items up there uh the last thing i want to emphasize i'm gonna really go do it for the reed uh reed folks here uh please come at your arrival time so if your arrival time is 9 15 please come at 9 15 do not come at 8 30 try not to come at 11 o'clock come at 9 15 um we we have been very very strategic about how we have maximized space this year to keep people distance to keep a maximum number of people in the building at time so if people show up and do what you're supposed to do um at the right times it'll be very very limited to the contact we've minimized that contact as best as possible but please come at your arrival time because otherwise you're just creating really chaos force because we have people coming at the wrong times that they didn't sign up for so if you do that your move in day experience will be good and you'll also make the experience for others as well so we actually have a couple questions from people about the arrival passes so kelly asks what if we have not received the arrival passes yet and we are scheduled to arrive next tuesday okay so the arrival passes we were told by the company who printed them and mailed them that they should be here at or before tomorrow so if you haven't gotten yours yet you it may come in the mail tomorrow it could come um saturday different i guess tomorrow is saturday but or monday you should get it we've talked to multiple people within the state of arkansas we talked to someone from all mail the other day uh someone else from east arkansas they had gotten their passes already um so hopefully yours should be coming any any day in the in the mail if it doesn't if you don't get it before move in don't panic um come to your lot at your arrival time and we will give you a blank temporary one that we will fill out so if it doesn't get here it's lost in the mail which happens from time to time don't worry you can still get your lot on move in day or you're driving from texas and you just get halfway here and you're like oh no i forgot their arrival pass not the end of the world will let you in your lot but if you have it this is really helpful this really helps our uapd officers who are out because they can help you if you get lost they see colors and they can know where what you're out to send you so it's super helpful that's great um and becky asks can students park in the garland garage um students if they have the garland garage sticker um that's a good question because typically in the garland garage is has been open um we would encourage you to go to lot 56 if you can for the first few days to because that's where our parents are going to park um for move in we anticipate the resident reserve lots will open back up saturday evening around 6 30 um so that should we should be done with move in around 6 or 6 30 on saturday evening and we will not protect the lots past that point um so if you are if you have a resident reserve lot after your move in process saturday about 6 30 the lot should be open for you to come back in and start using your resident reserve passes great um i think that's it for the questions closing thoughts so hey we're excited to have you here um you know our mass may be falling down and things might be a little bit different this year um as we move in but we're excited to have you here you know with classes sometimes some of your classes may be on lines and different things one great thing that's great about it is you still get to have the community experience in housing and we're so excited to have you here we have spent the entire summer walking through many many planning station stations and different things as we prepare for move in um and so we're excited to have you here and we look forward to it follow those parking maps and uh you and bring your arrival pass and show up at your time and you will have a great experience some move in day and we're excited to see you all right well thank you billy uh you want to give us a wave all right bye guys