I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the So welcome to this special study session for this Tuesday, April 30th. The continued item from the other day was just a study session item called Update on COVID-19 status for state, county, and city and facilities. And Mr. Falconberg, who we have to present this tonight. Yes, good evening, Mayor and council. As you know, we've been dealing with the COVID issues for about a couple of months now, and we thought it would be good to do an overall update as we gear up to reopen some of the city facilities. As you know, the senior center, the rec center and the armory will need to remain closed under the state order. But we're gearing up to open city hall. All the services actually at city hall continued and all of the permits can be issued. the utility bills can be paid primarily online. So we have a lot of people working remotely. Most of the public work functions, street functions and the water and waste water functions are all taking place as normal. So we have quite a bit of city employees coming and going from shops and that sort of thing. So tonight, I've asked Michael Martinez to lead the effort for the reopening plan, which is fairly complex and extensive. So he's been working with the director team. Holly's been working, Holly Prather internally in terms of the facilities with Karen, or Kawoski and Patrick Rome for modifications. But Michael has a pretty extensive overview, which includes many of the items that we're going to need to be doing next as the hopefully order is lifted on May 8. And we gear up to reopen city hall. So turn it over to Michael Martinez. He's been functioning as an interim assistant city manager for several months. And so he's taken on this duty in that capacity and he'll be presenting an overview tonight. We'll take any questions you have at the end. Good evening mayor and council. It's a pleasure to see all of you. I'm sitting in the same spot that I've been sitting in since last Tuesday night. I haven't moved and I haven't logged off the computer. So it's finally nice to get in front of you. As Mr. Falconberg just mentioned he asked me to coordinate the effort related to COVID-19 internally. We know that you get a lot of information and there's a lot of information that's going around from a lot of different areas. So we thought it'd be the right thing to do to consolidate that information, act as one point of contact, put it together for you so that we can digest it together and get it out to you. So that's kind of the overall idea of what I was planning on doing tonight. So I'm going to share a quick presentation about some of the things that we've been working on with respect to phase two opening talk about phase three and some of the considerations that we should take with us moving forward. So let me start to my screen here. Definitely wanna thank some people. Our emergency management coordinator Stephanie Hackett has done a wonderful job behind the scenes. She's really the one leading the effort in putting the information together, getting us all of the key steps that we need to get by coordinating with folks like the state and trying to help all these different organizations and really putting together well thought out plans for us to consider. I also want to think all of the directors. Every one of the directors has had input on this. I mean it affects all of us and so I so having a director staff is willing to collaborate the way that we've done over the last five weeks is extremely important. We've done a wonderful job with collaborating and coming up to consensus points. So a lot of kudos to our director staff as well. And of course, to our city manager, Mr. Falconberg, he's done an excellent job at keeping us on task, allowing us to be creative and some of the things that we're doing. Most of you don't know this, but I've been dropped on my head a few times and so when he asked me to coordinate this, I said yes apparently, I don't remember that, but here we are. So first thing I want to, if I can, get my technology to work here. I want to, we continue to monitor the data and information as it becomes available to us, as we're all aware, various state and local health orders may vary and change daily. So we're prepared to be as reactive as possible, but of course being proactive in our planning for the days and months ahead. And so through our meetings and discussions, we found it relevant to really break out our plan, our phase two reopening plan, if you will, into three segments. So that's what you see in front of you. One that provides guidance and information to the general public and our business community. One specific to our city facilities, public facilities that are currently closed and can be open safely. And finally planning for phase three, which will include, of course, financial and fiscal planning and looking at the impacts that this has had on us moving forward. looking at the impacts that this has had on us moving forward. And I also want to reiterate to the public that when we're speaking about reopening our facilities, I'm really only talking about the city owned and operated facilities that are under our control. We know that when we talk about the city reopening, there seems to be a lot of misinformation or general ambiguity as to what facilities we're talking about. And so, or the purpose of the presentation tonight when we talk about the reopening of our city, we're speaking specifically about city facilities. Of course, you know, while we can provide guidance and information on buildings within the city as a whole, a lot of decisions are made by state government, local health departments, which is beyond our controls. So I really think it's important to think about that as well. We have really focused on what is in our controls, especially with a lot of the guidelines that we're putting forward today, and thinking about moving forward. But ultimately, there are things, and as you're well aware with some of the situations that have happened over the last week or so, there are things that are out of our control and the basics that we can do is really just adhere to that and think about how it affects us. So of course we know the state has transitioned to a safer at home executive order on 427. So we are currently in the safer at home executive order, but try county health extended the stay at home order, which was previous to the safer at home executive order. But Tri County Health extended the stay at home order, which was previous to the safer at home order through 5-8. Speaking of fluid situation, I got off of a Tri County health call late this afternoon. And it is Tri County Health believes that there is no reason to extend anything past 5-8. So we will be moving directly into what is considered the safer at home order to be consistent with the rest. So this is the differences between the orders with the safer at home order 50% of what used to be considered nonessential workforce will be allowed back into facilities. Retailers and restaurants can begin for site pickup which for state the cities that are not a part of the the San hom extended orders started on 427 and that was phased in for general opening on 5-1 for us in Brighton we can actually start her side picked up at retailers that weren't previously opened tomorrow that's a part of the order that's a difference than just the stay at home order but that's really the only thing that's changed. Personal services such as salons, dental offices, and dog grooming can begin with strict precautions statewide on 5-1, but for us this will begin on 5-9. Individual home showings can resume on 5-9 as well, so no open houses, no group showings, but you can start showing homes again. five nine as well. So no open houses, no group showings, but you can start showing homes again. And most importantly, this is a big one for us. Child care services can reopen as well, taking of course strict precautions. Unfortunately, we're still at a point where bars, restaurants and events spaces, gyms, most remain closed. These are all statewide order. We are expecting more guidance this weekend to next with respect to bars and restaurants. But events spaces and gyms are really going to be a sticky situation because we don't know when we'll be able to reopen gyms, when we'll have events again. And the gym, the gym specific order is also what we base our rec center decision on. So as gyms begin to open and the guidance comes out through the state four GIMS, we'll also apply that to our rec centers. And of course, public gatherings are limited to 10 people or less. And that's public gatherings of individuals in one place. Well, the next few slides I'm going to, I'm going to fly through. These are just some slides that were shared with us that the state has provided. The first slide that you see here is really the three levels that the state is considering with respect to how closures happen and how we're trying to react to COVID. So the first stage or level level one would stay at home. That was where we just were everybody is expected to shelter in place really not moving unless necessary. We're currently moving into that level two area, so we're still going to experience a lot of folks staying at home and we're advocating for that. We really want to increase the capacity of our testing. Testing to get more of us. And that's really one of the largest steps that we need to do locally, statewide and nationally, to get back on track. And then really level three is relaxing a lot more of the requirements that we have now, but still being vigilant. Here is the timeline that the state has set forward to us, gives a few graphics of what we can and can't do. Of course, this doesn't apply to Brighton currently because we are extended through the Tri-County Health Order, but you can see how the dates are pretty fluid. How we're currently in that and beginning May 9th, these are the services that we'll be able to begin again. This is a pretty good slide to explain what safer at home really means. And so I'll let you read through this. But again, it just gives guidelines on what can happen in certain businesses. So things I've already mentioned like retail businesses. Unfortunately, the bars and restaurants were main closed except for takeout. The telecommuting is strongly encouraged still, but you can have up to 50% of your workforce, so on and so forth. So with respect to public facilities, staff is working to secure city of right and facilities for reopening May 18th. As our city manager mentioned, we do have facilities that are open. We do have facilities that have been operating since this has happened to us. And we're going to have facilities that remain closed until we get further guidance. So the facilities that we are currently working to reopen right now are City Hall and Historic City Hall. So, ideally, we want to be ready to go May 18th, which is a Monday. And so, starting on May 11th, we will be reintegrating staff back into the building at 50% as we are going to follow the guidelines. So we want to continue to encourage all of our staff who has the ability to tell a commute to do so, but we want to reintroduce up to 50% of our staff through May 11th and into that week. We believe that taking the entire week to do that is gonna give us time to work through some of the processes that we're undergoing right now, like temperature taking and that sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to work through some of the processes that we're undergoing right now, like temperature taking and that sort of thing, it gives us an opportunity to work up. We of course wanna continue to promote and enhance virtual services, including online utility payments, community development functions, business licensing and permits. We believe that this really, when we re-imagine government, right, we're looking towards a more technologically advanced government. And so we're seeing a lot of folks currently using these services. And hopefully in the future, not just because of COVID, but beyond that, we'll start to see folks who really do embrace technology and using these services, but we want to continue to promote the opportunity to do that. So you don't have to come in, you don't have to pay your bill in person, permits, and community development functions can still be done online. We want to implement sneeze guards for all of our public facing counters. This is an extremely important step in the in the call that we have with Tri County today. They encourage that everybody do this, whether you're a public facility or retailer, if you have an opportunity to add sneeze guards or at least add a layer between your customer service front facing folks in the public, you do that, but we wanna make sure that we add sneeze guards at all of our counters for those public facing. Social-distancing spacers are spacing reminders on floors. If you've been to Home Depot or really anywhere at this point, you'll see six foot reminders or Xs. We're going to do the same thing throughout City Hall where there's going to be queuing or lines. I want to make sure that folks can visibly see what social distance it looks like and have reminders on the floor. We're also looking at doing those reminders both in English and Spanish. And we want to minimize or eliminate waiting areas where appropriate. So if you come into City Hall now, you'll see that the I4R displays have been removed. So that allows us to have more folks just in a general area. But we really are going to discourage any waiting areas where appropriate. We want to make sure that folks are not irrigating the folks waiting for this. So we're going to really expect spacing to be a maximum and we'll have folks who ensure that on the ground. We'll have hand sanitizing stations at all entrances, extremely important. And we're going to request that all visitors wear masks while in city of Brighton facilities. This is important for obvious reasons and we will be providing masks to the public if they don't currently have them when they enter our facilities. We also will have masks for employees as well. And we want to allow residents the opportunity to make appointments for services. This is something historically that we haven't done in Kudos to David Quo for introducing this idea to us, but we have the ability just like every other business to start making appointments to be more predictable so that we don't have folks just waiting around or waiting in lobbies. So we're exploring what that looks like and how we can allow residents to start making appointments for services that we know are going to take more than just a few minutes. employees, as mentioned, up to 50% of our employees can return to open facilities. We want to make sure that strict social distancing is followed. So that means the six foot role is in place, wearing your mask, and appropriate. But we really also want to encourage health commuting. We know that we can operate without having to have everybody in our facilities. This has been a good experience for us and a good opportunity for us to learn how much more effective we can be exploring some of the different options for our employees. So we know that telecommuting works, we know that virtual meetings work, and we want to encourage all the directors to use their discretion when it comes to having employees back in the building. Temperatures will be taken upon arriving for your shift. As I learn this afternoon through Tri-County Health, they are actually mandating that any employer over 25 employees has to have the temperatures taken of their employees when they arrive for their shift. As I also learn government facilities are not exempt from that. So by mandate, we will have to take temperatures. We have already put a plan in place on how that will occur. And so Karen Borkowski is working on setting up the logistics of that. But we feel like we've got a pretty good plan in place to make sure that that's successful. This is an interesting one, and this is one that we can certainly use more direction on. We are encouraging public meetings to resume with strict precautions. Of course, if we're gonna open City Hall, we wanna open the ability to have public meetings, but we also have to understand that there are still a lot of strict guidelines in place, which dictates to us which public meetings we can and can't have and at what length. So as with anything else at this point, we want to encourage virtual meetings. So if you're doing a meeting on Zoom for a board or a commission and it's working, please continue to do that. For the vulnerable population, we want to make sure that you're not coming to City Hall for some unnecessary reason and Exposing yourself to the virus if you can have a virtual meeting. Let's continue to do that Another limiting factor is public gatherings of more than 10 are still prohibited This question was asked today again about government facilities and no government facilities are not exempt from it Well, so if we have a public gathering in one specific area, no more than 10 people are allowed in that area. We still have to follow six foot minimum spacing. And hybrid solutions should be considered in order to protect that risk individuals. And when we say hybrid solutions, we're really talking about if, for example, council wants to have some folks in the building and others who are not comfortable coming in outside of the building. We want to look at having potentially a Zoom meeting with folks who are in the building in front of a computer so that everybody's on the same technological platform. But if you are at risk, we still encourage you to stay home. So we're looking at hybrid solutions. Of course, technology is limiting in this sense. We're working through that. But we wanted to present the opportunity for that to happen to you. And as previously mentioned, some facilities will remain closed. Currently, those facilities, amongst others, are the Brighton Rec Center, the Eagle View Adult Center, and the Brighton Armory Performing Arts Center. One of the other things that as a director staff, we have really been considering is event alteration, postponement, cancellations, and facility closures. So we're considering which events we can do, modified, we're considering which facilities, long term we can, can open or shouldn't open for logistical reasons. And we want to know how we can push some of the events that we're considering off to a more appropriate date so we can work through this. The Oasis Water Park is one that we're really internally battling with amongst ourselves because we don't have enough guidance from our state and county friends to tell us whether or not they are going to allow outdoor water facilities. And today we're not the only city asking this question on the call that we had this afternoon. We had city managers asking about pools for obvious reasons and there just isn't any guidance. So we've been told that the state is going to provide guidance at some point as to whether or not pools can open. The general feeling is that state why there's going to be an encouragement of pools not opening. And so we are looking at neighborhood pools as well. There was a mention this morning or this afternoon of HOA pools, how do we help with that? And so there has to be some sort of statewide order that at least gives us guidance, or at least statewide guidance that helps us make a better determination. The OASIS Water Park is really one that we need to consider what we're going to do with because we know we have such a limited time, right? There's only three months of good swimming time, and we're really encroaching on that if we don't make a decision soon or if we continue to postpone this. And it's expensive to operate. If we're going to operate it for a month or two, we really need to take in the financial consideration. Well, we're looking at Brighton Summer Fest as another event that we could continue on to a later date. And so maybe we don't have it in the summer as originally planned, but maybe we make it bright and fall fest. We're still working logistically through that. And Kristin and her team have done a great job of thinking outside of the box as to how we can do some of these events, summer fest being one of them. But remember, we also have other considerations to vendors. We have contracts that need to be fulfilled. A lot of communities are giving a six to eight week margin of time before they cancel an event. So if they have an event say in eight weeks from today, a lot of communities are canceling that because we need to pay vendors, we need to fulfill contracts. There are a lot of logistics that go into that. Summer Fest is falling kind of right in that time frame, so we need to be cautious of that. The fourth of July celebration is one that's interesting and I added alteration to that title slide there because we originally were talking about potentially canceling that but Kristen and her team have come up a pretty acts kind of as that that buffered point, if you will, so that we don't have folks trying to come to Carmichael to watch the fireworks. But still continuing to do that. We think that it's important that we do a fourth of the live fireworks celebration. Maybe it doesn't look like it has in the past, but we still think that's an extremely powerful thing to do. So we're looking at creative options as to how and where we can do the 4th of July celebration. And of course, any additional large gatherings over 10 people aren't allowed at this point. I don't see that changing in the near future when I say near future. I mean in the next four to eight weeks. So any event that falls within that category we're really going to have to consider our options for. So on to phase three, we know that long-term preparation is going to be required. We're in this for the long haul. We know that we're not going to be out of this anytime soon, short of a vaccine. So we have to be prepared to be in this long-term and think about the effects over a long period of time. Of course, we're awaiting additional guidance from federal state and local authorities and I can't stress this enough. We are so bound to a lot of the rules and regulations that try county health and the state are giving us that we're almost prisoners in a way to information. And so we're very proactive in what we're doing, but at the same time, we have to be very reactive because those are the binding rules. So we continue to monitor all of the guidance that comes out. And it's very fluid. As I mentioned today, it changes day to day. We got off the call earlier this afternoon with a whole bunch of new guidance. And in fact, try county health as of this afternoon, just putting out a pretty in-depth guidance document from frequently asked questions that they've got to allow us to answer some of the questions that are going to come up on May 9th when we open the doors. Questions like some of the things we're talking about tonight, how many people can be in my store? Do I have to take temperatures? Do I have to have masks? And the mask is an important situation as well, which I'll get to later. But there are a lot of things that are still kind of unknown. The Tri-County Health has done a good job of creating guidelines, but it's fluid, right? We get these things as of 5 o'clock tonight and we're pushing them out. We're going to anticipate additional phased approaches through summer and fall months. So we went from safe at home. Now we're at safer at home. At a certain point, we're going to be, it might be OK to go outside at home. We don't know whatever they're going to call it. But we know that there's probably going to be 5, 6, 7 phases officially as we move through this. And so we've got to be prepared to take these things incrementally. And extremely important is that we continue our frequent communication and coordination with all of our key stakeholders, including the hospital, including the school district and Brighton fire and rescue. I believe that our city manager has mentioned this before, but twice a week we are meeting with all of our key stakeholders and all of the directors to talk about information, to share information, to share best practices and work this thing through as a community. And we think it's extremely important that we continue that frequent communication. Another part of phase three is considering the fiscal impacts of COVID-19. We all know that business closures is going to and has significantly impacted city revenues. So there are long-term fiscal implications of the pandemic and it's gonna have long-lasting effects to the city budget. The longer that this thing goes on, the more impactful it's gonna be. There's just no way to avoid that. And at this point, the information that we're getting back from groups like CML and our own projections internally, some of the modeling that we've done, estimates that we're gonna have a 20% reduction in revenue not just for this year, but for the next two to five years. This is such a significant impact in the community, even in this short time, that we really have to start taking into consideration what a 20% reduction in revenues even over the next five years is going to do for city budgets moving forward. This is a pretty interesting juxtaposition here of the general fund revenue and expenses projection that we included when we did the 2020 budget and then on the right is the general fund revenue and expenses project adjusted for COVID. So our finance director did a wonderful job of taking through all of the modeling. And this is the model that she's come up with to consider what COVID-19 is going to do for our revenue and for our expenses over the next five years. As you can see, the pretty significant change in how our modeling works. That's something for you to consider. This is a long-term thing and has long-term consequences. Overall, there are three key things that we're considering. We want everybody to be smart. As a city and as a director's team, we're all doing our part to make sure that we're considering. We want everybody to be smart, you know, as a city and as a director's team, we have we're all doing our part to make sure that we can provide the best most safe environment that we can. That's what we're working on tonight. That's what we'll continue to work on. So, collectively, we're doing all we can to ensure public safety in our buildings. But we ask everybody that that comes into the buildings to be reasonable. That includes all of the staff as well. We have to understand that there's a bit of individual responsibility that comes with this. We can take all of the precautions in the world to make sure that everybody's safe and provide sanitizer and opportunities for people to wash their hands at any given point. But it's up to people to do that. It's up to people to make sure you're wearing your mask. It's up to people to make sure that you're following social distancing rules and you're not within six feet of another person when you don't have to be. So we ask that you be reasonable. And overall, we wanna make sure that everybody understands that this is such a fluid information with so many things changing, that you continue to be patient with us as we work through this, but ultimately we're going to get through this together. And with that, I'll entertain any questions and I know we have most of the directors here as well. So if there's any hard questions, I asked that you ask the directors that I'll take the easy ones. And then of course anything legal, that's Jack's job. Questions for Mr. Martinez? Council member Watts, I see you, hand. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Michael, thank you very much for the being on the calls and giving this information for us. And thank you for the work you've done to help our local businesses here in town. This question is probably going to be more for Jack. It was something I asked a couple days ago. We talked about it and you kind of brought it up with the state has certain dates. And then we have to follow the tri-county. And I just wondered for the benefit of the residents that are asking myself another council members questions of why we're not opening along with the state. Could you please explain why we are following tri-county and not the state? So that's a good question. I know there's been a lot of frustration because there's different different orders at play. We fall within the authority of the Tri County health district. The the question has been presented in a number of ways of why can't we opt out of that authority to follow the state authority. And if I may just go into a little bit of analysis on that, a home rule city. Authorities has limits. The way the law addresses this is, comes down to a matter of preemption. Functions a government and functions of the local authority are put into three categories. First is anything that's just strictly a statewide interest. The second is something that would be mixed state and local interest and the third is local interest. A home rural municipality has carte blanche in local interest matters. A good complicated and that is something that the state has has legislated into but then has left room for local home rule authority and if there's a conflict between the two then the state would control. The third being that the statewide interest is strictly state and less there is specific authority from the state that's granted to a home rural city. A good example of that is regulation of vehicles and traffic. The state has dictated that that's a matter of statewide concern. You know, Brighton can't come up their own version of a stop sign. But they've carved out a number of things that allow local authorities to dabble in that, such as setting weight limits on residential streets, speed limits on residential streets, that sort of thing. But specifically prevented the city from legalizing acts that would be illegal in the state, under the state motor vehicle code. health, public health has been designated a core function of the counties. And that's historically the case, that is still the case. In fact, let me see if I can't just share a screen. So we can talk about this with. No, I'm. Okay, I can you. You see that screen? Yes. Okay, perfect. Not sure I'm in the slide view, it doesn't really matter. There we go. All right, so this is the Colorado revised statutes talking specifically about County health departments. This is the legislative declaration that each county should establish or be a part of a local health of public health agency under the authority of a local board of health with the public health director and other necessary staff. This is within CRS their regulations. the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the rest of this talks about a public health district. Tri-county really is a district under this where you can have communities or counties that are contiguous, they can join efforts so that they aren't duplicating service and the benefit of having specialists in water quality or something like that is spread over and the cost of that is spread over several counties. The jurisdiction is this is the critical language here. Jurisdiction of any agency and this is the agency that was described prior in this statute here shall extend over all unincorporated areas and over all municipal corporations within the territorial limits of the county or the district. So that puts the city of Brighton within the authority of the county. There's some antique language here about if the municipal corporation maintained its own public health agency we would be exempt from that jurisdiction. I am unaware of any municipality and Colorado that has done that. Historically, there could have been one or two, but it really wouldn't make much sense for a municipality to do that because the residents of the municipality are already being taxed to pay for that county level public health authority. They'd be paying for it twice in other words. Again, I'm unaware and we've had some conversations on the attorney communication avenues about this and that seems to be the common the common idea of this is its antique language that's a hint that's out of date. So we are clear the city of Brighton itself as a municipality as well as the citizens in the city are subject to tri county. The car out there is that we're partially in weld county. Businesses and individuals that live in weld county are not subject to tri county. They're subject to the weld county regulations. And this is the discussion of the penalties and how this is an unlawful act of violating any order I've highlighted that because that's what Tritonia's issued is an order. And then violation of this is subject to it is a class one misdemeanor. And there's other avenues that the Tritonia can take including seeking injunctionary and injunctive relief and district court to enforce that word. Tri-County has done that. In a couple of instances, I think all of us have seen some news stories about that. A couple of them in Brighton, or I'm not in Brighton, I'm sorry, a couple of them in Aurora that stand out. So we're under the authority of Tri-County. This isn't even a close call. If anybody was really interested in getting into the weeds of state and local interplay, a great case to read out of the Colorado Supreme Court, not on point here, but it talks about the analysis would be, Web V, the city of Black Hawk from 2013. That's where right after the state legislature the city of Blackhawk from 2013. That's where right after the state legislature had mandated a 10 foot buffer between bicyclists and cars, Blackhawk attempted to solve their traffic problem with their narrow streets by banning bicycles in Blackhawk. Ultimately, the Supreme Court went through their analysis, and that's why this case is a good one to read because it talks about the process of that analysis and determined that no Black Hawk's home rule authority did not allow them to do that. Do you have any questions? Just, thank you for clarifying. It was basically, we talked about this a couple of days ago. I just wanted the residents to understand why we can't follow the state guy lens versus tri-county. As I've been getting questions, some others have been of why can't they on May 1st go get a haircut or a grooming supplier? Why can't some of these businesses who now have to worry about their maize rent and mortgages Uh, we already went through April now. We're worried about May Trying to make some money so they can pay their bills. You know, we have a lot of businesses that are that are struggling Um, very much so and a lot of independent people are just running out of funds right now and They were they were confused with state and tri-county. And I just wanted that to be clarified at my legal standpoint. So I appreciate you doing that tonight. Not that I agree with it. I just appreciate you clarifying that for us. Well, there's definitely a difference of opinion about the validity of that. And I'll leave that for another conversation. I would point out that the state order specifically allows the tri-county to have a more restrictive approach. Right. Thank you very much. Any more questions for Jack or Mike? Councilmember Cushing. Thank you, Mayor. Since Councilmember Watts kind of brought up the Tri-County Order. I just wanted to kind of just make the comment regarding that. You know, we have a health department and I'm one that likes to gather all the information and leverage all the experts that we have that have a lot of experience before making the decision. And so I just I guess my frustration with Tri County and as a city council member is the lack the poor communication. There were several Tri County calls with county commissioners that city council members were excluded from. I don't know if writing at any involvement in any of those calls or not. I certainly attempted to get on those calls and I even sent some emails with this pleasure that we were excluded from doing so. And then last Thursday, when it became clear that TRIC County was going to change, when it became clear that Tri County was going to change or extend the state home order. My frustration was that that was a pretty short lack of notice for businesses that were planning on opening Tuesday. So I did inquire with our city attorney and our city manager on what our options were in terms of, you know, applying for waivers, opening a channel communication to understand their thinking or their mindset behind it. But in the future, I think as a city council member, I'd like to see us as a council have emergency meetings to discuss this stuff in our response because what ended up happening is our mayor requested a waiver on behalf of our city. And I feel like at that moment, I didn't have very much information on, was it justified? Do we agree with that? Not saying it was a bad idea or a good idea, I'm just saying, I don't feel like we had the data points as a city to make that request. And we should have gathered that data points. And I think we should have made a decision as an entire council on whether that's the move we wanted to make as a city. It really kind of makes us look disjointed when different people are kind of running in different directions and we're not all on the same page. So I wanted to express my desire to one.