I think I got it all, but some things may end up in today’s round up.
KONKEL’S MUSINGS
- I think common sense and decency had more to do with the lack of participation in the Mifflin St. Block Party than the police department’s stern warnings. This isn’t a crowd that typically listens to the police!
- Ugh, the incompetence . . .
. . . who in the City Council office didn’t notice a problem here? - What’s taking Wisconsin so long to send out the $600 unemployment checks?
4/27/20 ROUND UP FOR THE ALDERS
They’re getting shorter and shorter . . . . in fact “No update at this time.”
COVID-19 Information Update 4/27/20
Today Governor Evers announced expanded opportunities for nonessential businesses to meet community needs. The order allows nonessential businesses to do curbside drop-off of goods and animals and also allows outdoor recreation rentals, such as boats and kayaks. All operations must be free of contact with customers, enact proper disinfecting practices, and be able to be performed by one staff member.
Spring is the beginning of peak tick season. As we are spending time outdoors with our household members, safely distanced from others, it’s important to add on another safety step: preventing tick bites and checking for ticks on ourselves and our dogs after going inside. See our news release in English and Spanish for details.
From the Governor’s Office:
Gov. Tony Evers today announced the another turn of the dial in expanding allowed operations for nonessential businesses, providing even more opportunities for businesses to get back to work in a safe and responsible way.
The Emergency Order, signed today by Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm, allows nonessential businesses to do curbside drop-off of goods and animals. This will allow businesses like dog groomers, small engine repair shops, upholstery businesses, and others to safely open. Today’s order also allows outdoor recreational rentals, such as boats, golf carts, kayaks, ATVs, and other similar recreational vehicles. Additionally, automatic or self-service car washes would be able to operate. All of these businesses must operate free of contact with customers by providing payment options online or over the phone, enact proper disinfecting practices, and operations must be able to be performed by one staff member.
Information for Alders:
No update at this time.
In the news today, 04/27:
- Madison-area fitness equipment manufacturers responding to surge in sales amid stay-at-home orders: https://bit.ly/2W0UQXv
- Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation announces $635K in special COVID grants: https://bit.ly/3bJGYHP
- Amid scramble for federal funds, small businesses turn to local loans, grants to survive:https://bit.ly/3cW5Hch
- Not all restaurant owners happy with COVID relief program: https://bit.ly/2ScEpGs
- Wisconsin fishing season opener like no other amid COVID pandemic: https://bit.ly/2Y9qViI
- Wisconsin COVID death toll hits 272 with 6 new deaths: https://bit.ly/2YbEMF8
- Waunakee School District offers masks, milk along with meals: https://bit.ly/2Y6w4Ih
- Green Bay meat plant closes as WI records 5th consecutive day of more than 200 new cases:https://bit.ly/2W6kn1u
- Brown County was a step ahead of COVID; then everything changed: https://bit.ly/3bCZilX
- A season without Packers fans would devastate Green Bay economy: https://bit.ly/35a51x7
- ‘The perfect release’: Getting outside during safe at home orders: https://bit.ly/2VHI41q
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER UPDATES FOR ALDERS 4/27/20
To: City of Madison Common Council
From: City of Madison Emergency Operations Center COVID-19
RE: EOC Weekly Update
The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) currently meets via zoom on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Below are some of the upcoming activities for the week.
Planning:
Internal Recovery Team- A staff team to develop a plan for the phased reopening of City
facilities and operations had an initial meeting and began their work.
Staff Reallocation- Comprehensive surveys were received from agencies to quickly and
systematically match available staff with needs.
Worst Case Scenarios Team- This team is focusing on potential issues involving nursing
homes/care centers.
Operations:
The homeless shelter at Warner Park averages about 80 guests per night. The respite facility at the Quality Inn, now has medical care on sight. UW Health has agreed to provide testing for those residents, and those details are being worked on this week.
The drive through testing sight has a goal to be up and running by 4/30. This sight is a cooperative effort between local health care providers, the National Guard, Dane County EM, Dane Sherriff, and PHMDC. The city will most likely have limited involvement. This will be for symptomatic people to drive through and have a test administered. It has yet to be determined on the referral process. It is in a continuous change
The policy for City of Madison employees to wear face coverings while working has been implemented. We have a large shipment of reusable face coverings that are due in this week. Each employee will get assigned 3 per person, and will be responsible to wash their individual covering.
Logistics:
Continue to hunt for PPE such as masks, face coverings, gowns, gloves, face shields, and hand sanitizer.
The logistics section is currently creating a “burn” rate per agency on the use of PPE.
Logistics is also providing PPE for as many support teams as the possibly can. They have been working hard to ensure the care takers at our shelters have adequate PPE.
Logistics is working with Operations to establish an agency PPE needs list.
Finance:
Total costs through 4/27/2020 — $3,135,000
Personnel — $2,142,775 (68%; OT — $167,784 – 8%)
Non-personnel — $992,206 (32%)
Non-personnel costs are primarily hand sanitizer, PPE, UV disinfectant robots to clean masks, and a contract to lease a convalescence facility for MFD and MPD (contract terminated due to lack of need — $145,000 paid).
Coronavirus Relief Fund guidance released by US Treasury on Thursday (4/23) – Dane County to receive $95 million (State of Wisconsin will receive approximately $1.8 billion). Several secondary effect cost areas such as income and food support appear to be allowable. Funds cannot be used to replace state or local tax and fee revenue lost due to economic effects of public health response.
FEMA Cost Reporting – Working on connecting with a Program Delivery Manager from FEMA to begin submitting cost reports for reimbursement.
Working on developing key performance indicators of internal and external measures of the emergency response.
Projections of budgetary impacts for 2020 and 2021 are underway. Briefings will be held in May and June at Finance Committee meetings.
Graph on expenditures attached below:
OFFICE OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION COVID-19 UPDATES
- Briefing From Public Health Madison and Dane County
- Cases in Dane County: 414 and Deaths: 21
- Testing took place in jail facilities done. 4 new cases as a result. Waiting on results from staff. Test results take about 48 hand ours.
- Public Health Dashboard (PH) – main chart and chart on the right have scroll bars. So there is information on race, age, gender and ethnicity and other info.
- Safer at Home order- There are protest to lift order. The concern is keeping every safe. Younger individuals seem to have less serious symptoms. My older seem to have a greater percentage that have health impacts and death.
o Keeping self-safe and most vulnerable is the message to keep in mind going forward.
- Snapshot Recovery Report: There was a previous discussion about what does recovery mean and now have some guidance. 51% of those diagnosed recovered. 5% have passed away and another 44% still being treated and hopefully will be on the recovery side.
- PH have new trained staff to assist with contact tracing.
- CDC has talked more directly about COVID and animals in particularly cats and dogs. There is no evidence that it is transmitted to people from animals. However, there have been confirmed cases in cats and tiger. There is a lot we do not know about the virus and there is still need to be careful and caution.
o If you are sick, it is not a bad course of animal to separate from your pet.
o Also not bad to keep your pets away from one another.
o Dog Parks: Having conversation with those who run them. Recommending that owners keep pets on leash as a precaution. They are not closing parks.
- Questions / Comments
- What do symptoms look like in animals?
o PH Response: Dogs uncertain. Cats seem to be the same issues as in people – respiratory illness, difficulty breathing, coughing sneezing
- Does PH keep up with what is happening in the rest of the state?
o PH Response: The state has been consistent in number new cases per day 100-150. In the last few days it has hit 224-330. Can’t identify why could be due the change state guidelines and testing for anyone experiencing symptoms.
- Any information on transmission from ticks and mosquitoes?
o PH Response: Has not seen any information about this. However, typically pathogens tend to be through blood. But don’t know for a fact. Everything with COVID is respiratory. Not sure if it can be transmitted to mosquitoes and ticks.
FEMA additional training opportunities
- Attached are this week’s schedule of FEMA Grants Portal webinars.
Sources for Additional Information:
- Executive Order 28 FAQ: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2020/04/16/file_attachments/1428997/2020-04-16%20Safer%20at%20Home%20extension%20FAQ.pdf
- Dane County Emergency Management Personal Protective Equipment Requests: https://em.countyofdane.com/ppe
- 2019 Wisconsin Act 185: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2020/04/15/file_attachments/1428100/ab1038.pdf
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services: COVID-19: Businesses and Employers: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/employers.htm
- Wisconsin Hospital Association COVID-19 dashboard: https://www.wha.org/COVID19Update
- Safer at Home FAQ: https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVID19/Safer%20at%20Home%20FAQ%203.24.20.pdf
- Definitions of and directions for “essential businesses”: https://wedc.org/essentialbusiness/
- Public Health Madison and Dane County Coronavirus website: https://www.publichealthmdc.com/health-services/partners-providers/resources-by-disease/coronavirus
- Governor Evers Executive Orders: https://evers.wi.gov/Pages/Newsroom/Executive-Orders.aspx
- Governor Evers Press Releases: https://evers.wi.gov/Pages/Newsroom/Press-Releases.aspx
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services (Includes a wide range of guidance documents and statistics):https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/index.htm
- FEMA Rumor Control: https://www.fema.gov/coronavirus-rumor-control
- “Safer at Home” media brief: DHS Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/dhswi/videos
- Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Information: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/28264fd
- FEMA Grants Portal: https://grantee.fema.gov/
- FEMA Public Assistance Program: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/111781
- The United Way Covid-19 Response site: https://www.unitedwaydanecounty.org/united-way-of-dane-county-covid-19-response/
Theola Carter – Manager of Policy and Program Improvement
The Tamara D. Grigsby Office for Equity and Inclusion (OEI) Department
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA VIRTUAL MAY 1 CELEBRATION
Ever since 2006 Voces de la Frontera has led a massive march and celebration on May 1, the international Day for Workers. We’ve focused on the critical role of Latinx in Wisconsin’s economy, but tens of thousands of people of all cultures and ethnicities have participated each year.
COVID-19 got in the way this year.
We’ll still have the march, but it’s delayed until the Democratic National Convention later this summer, health conditions permitting.
In place of the May 1 outdoor event, Voces will hold a 90-minute virtual celebration from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm on Friday evening, May 1, 2020.
The celebration will be on Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
The event will celebrate Voces’ new building, at 733 W. Historic Mitchell St., where we plan to move in during July. A lot of work is needed to prepare the building and we’re launching a donation drive to raise $180,000.
The celebration will include music, poetry, testimonies from people about our recent successful election work, our COVID-19 support for essential workers, our youth activities and more.
GET YOUR COPY OF THE CAPITAL CITY HUES
In our April 20th issue hitting grocery stores today, we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with UW Nelson Institute grads and students Daritza de los Santos and Mercedez Kennedy. Dr. Ruben Anthony talks about the Urban League’s COVID-19 efforts. Karen Menendez Coller talks about the Centro Hispano’s services and the Latino Consortium for Action’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund. UW Deputy Vice Chancellor Patrick Sims talks about the impact of COVID-19 on UW diversity efforts. East Madison Community Center youth teamed up with MEJO to measure PFAS levels in Starkweather Creek. And we feature photos of Madison’s urban nature landscape in our center spread. These are just some of the stories in Your Capital City Hues.
ALCOHOL BAN AT REYNOLDS PARK
Hello Tenney-Lapham Neighbors,
As of May 2, another temporary 90-day ban on alcohol in Reynolds Park will go into effect. I discovered yesterday that due to city committee schedules being impacted by COVID-19, the earlier-requested permanent ban won’t be enacted until mid-summer, assuming that the various city entities that need to approve indeed do so. As always, I will publish committee agendas that include this and other District 2 concerns in my alder updates.
The permanent ban was requested by many nearby neighbors, TLNA Council, and by me after last year’s surge in illegal behaviors associated with alcohol consumption in the park. There also have been additional recent reports. These recent reports, combined with the delay in implementing the permanent ban, prompted me to ask for another temporary ban to fill the gap.
The permanent ban is expected to get through the city process within 90 days from May 2. Park rangers have already started the usual “educational period” for the new temporary ban, signs were already up from the previous temporary ban, and full enforcement should start next week.
Note that like most other city parks, alcohol permits for special events in Reynolds Park can still be applied for through the Parks Division.
Patrick
Alder Patrick Heck
608-286-2260
SAFE HAVEN TEMPORARILY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS
For the time being, Safe Haven will not be completing intakes for new clients. This will begin on Wednesday, 4/29.
We are making this change due to staff and space considerations. We want to try to ensure that there is sufficient space in our building and staff capacity for clients who visit Safe Haven, and would prefer not to use limits on the number of people using services at once or the amount of time per day that a person can stay.
We also understand that there are people who may be new to our local homeless services system who are in need of assistance, and that other programs are also struggling to meet demand. This change will be temporary, and we will try to spread the word widely when it ends. When we are again accepting new clients, our eligibility criteria for registering a guest are that the person be over 18 years old, literally homeless, and have a diagnosed mental illness.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you all for everything you do to support folks experiencing homelessness and needing support in housing during this incredibly difficult time.
Liz Duffie, Manager – Porchlight Safe Haven
NAACP MEETING TONIGHT
When: Apr 28, 2020 06:45 to 8:30PM Central Time
Executive Committee meeting will be 5:00 to 6:30pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
General Membership Zoom Meeting Registration
US: +1-312-626-6799, Meeting ID: 86257256738#
Or Telephone:
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A. Continued engagement Dane County Office of Equity and Inclusion Department monitoring plan.
B. Collaborated with concerned Blacks regarding the development of a Political Action Committee (PAC). Involvement ceased after the formal registration of the PAC.
C. State Conference: facilitated Ad Hoc Committee meeting to review the April 7th election; communicated local resident’s experience with Milwaukee CVID19 response; Governor’s request for an Amicus Brief;
D. Tides Foundation Award
E. Matters from the Executive Committee
1. Tides Foundation Award
2. State Conference Annual Assessment
Treasurer’s Report – Theola Carter, Valese Adams
