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concerns is that 211 has experienced a substantial overload of calls. 211 is a professional call center,
we are setting up something using city phones and volunteers. So that’s one concern; the second is
Manchester has done a similar initiative and also they become pretty overwhelmed. So we want to
make sure it is right before we set it up. So we will make sure to publicize as far as wide when we do
get it set up.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else have questions for Director Bagley?

Alderman Lopez

| mean how can people help is | think a question a lot of people have on their minds, if you are making
a call center can you get like 49 volunteers to help or is there a role for the public that they can offer
something or even a way for you to receive offers of help and then screen them and then figure out
who is helpful?

Director Kates

So | will talk a little bit more about this on my section but this is going to be an all of community
response. The City Government is not going to be able to handle this, we’ve identified that the State
Government is unable to handle this and frankly, the Federal Government is also unable to handle
this. So just alone here within the City, one of the things we discussed this morning was our
organizational structure for this response. The Mayor’s Office, Cheryl has offered to take on some of
the responsibilities related to volunteers and donations management. So each City Department even if
it is sort of outside of their typical scope, they are doing some strange things that they wouldn't do day-
to-day. So that is one of the things that we are looking at for volunteers and donations management.

The ideas that we have seen that we have leveraged in previous disasters have been around having
some sort of intake form; what types of skills do you have, and then being able to triage those based
on the need that we have. We have already seen in some of these States, the use of volunteers for
everything ranging from helping to set up digital classrooms through delivering meals and those types
of activities. So it is going to be, just that alone is going to be a massive undertaking.

Director Bagley

If | may, we are also looking to recruit individuals in our medical reserve corp and also in our
Community Emergency Response Teams, so through the CERT. We also are looking at the
opportunity that we will have with some of our universities where some of the college students are right
now not in school. They can also help with some of the things that we are going to need. Just today, |
had to make a delivery to a home with food. And so we are going to need that, if our numbers
continue to go up and we have people that we are asking to stay home and isolate, we are going to
need to have that set of volunteers help with delivering food and other things that people may need if
they can’t go out into the community.

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President Wilshire
Director Kates, you are up.
Director Kates

Thank you. So | just wanted to start off with a couple of simple comments just to set the stage here. In
many cases in the career of an Emergency Manager they deal with some sort of catastrophe, you
know, we’ve seen disasters that are very large in scale. We think of the common ones; 911, Hurricane
Sandy, Hurricane Katrina. When you look at the scope and the magnitude of a disaster like that, it is
typically regional in nature. There’s only been one example that | can recognize where we’ve had a
National Disaster Declaration and that was for Hurricane Katrina and the only reason that that took
place was because of the massive exodus of people who evacuated the Gulf Coast to every State in
the Country. So it wasn’t even that those States were being impacted by the disaster, it was just the
fact that there was a massive evacuation.

In this case, every Emergency Manager across the Country is dealing with this crisis; every City
Department, County Department, State Government and then the Federal Government is dealing with
this crisis. We have so many different mechanisms ranging from the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact where we can move resources across State lines to help each other out during a
disaster, Mutual Aid among local communities. None of that works right now because everybody is
being impacted by this disaster. So what we have in the community is what we have. We have to
leverage not just those City resources, but also the Community Resources.

The other thing | just wanted to just mention before | explain what the City is doing regarding the
responses, the importance of information sharing. One of the things that we have been challenged
with over the past few weeks is while the City has been working remarkably well together with all the
Division Directors, the Department Heads, it has been unbelievable the amount of collaboration even
just the work between what Public Health and Emergency Management has been doing. We quickly,
early on identified Public Health takes the lead on the Public Health Response and Emergency
Management initially was focused on supporting and assisting with identifying the critical Government
functions that needed to continue during this incident.

We are in a moment now where we are getting these reports from the State, from the Federal
Government which we are learning about as Government Professionals, at the same time citizens are.
So when we hear an announcement that we are shutting down schools on the 5", guess when | found
that out? It was at the same time everybody else did. It presents a lot of challenges for us as a local
government to be able to react quickly and try to adapt to those types of conditions. So | will say the
key statement is we have to work together as a City. If we can work together and we have to share
information, we are going to be in much better shape than if we don’t because we are not able to rely
on the State and Federal Government to assist with that.

So just a brief overview of what we’ve done so far. We have been working on this initiative over the
past few weeks now really focused on ensuring that the City Departments have all of the resources
that they can possibly get to enable some ability to function during this crisis. So they have gone
through a process, an exercise with our team to identify what are those essential functions within their
organization? What are the things that they need to do in order to make those essential functions
occur? So whether that be supplies, staffing, access to some sort of an information technology
system, all of that needed to really be documented so that we could provide recommendations on
what functions needed to continue if we had to curtail services.

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This weekend we finalized all of those plans with the Division Directors, regarding what types of
functions they would be able to continue, whether it be at a facility like the Waste Water Plant or
providing services out in the community that are essential like Fire or Law Enforcement all the way
through what types of services can continue but may be able to continue from somebody’s home. As
you can imagine, it is very challenging to enable somebody to work from home when that is not a
policy that we currently within the City. We are not like the Federal Government where many workers
can work from home; we are not like the private sector where many workers can work from home. So
trying to make something like that work on the fly is remarkable. It is remarkable the work that the
Administrative Services Division has done, and IT to make this a reality. And we still are working
through the final steps and we will get there. But just the progress that we have made has been
unbelievable and | can just say we wouldn’t have done it unless there was a crisis of this magnitude.

So as | mentioned, we have been working on this for a number of weeks. Over the weekend, | worked
with Bobbie to really determine what our future organizational structure is. While Public Health has
been the lead up to this point, one of the things that we did over the weekend was we established a
unified command. And the reason for that is because there are going to be a number of major issues,
major problems that we are going to be dealing with in the coming weeks, coming months. Everything
ranging from the distribution of medications and food all the way through economic recovery and how
we are going to deal with the fallout from today’s action, which was necessary, to ensure that
community organizations, businesses, have the resources that they need to reopen after this crisis.

So one of the things that we did was establish that Unified Command, we also tasked five Task Forces
that we are working to try and build out and develop a plan for. Two of them have been things that we
have been working on for the past few weeks, the first being the Municipal Continuity Task Force.
That Task Force is focused around keeping our City Services up and running. The second Task Force
is the one that Bobbie has been leading for the past few weeks which is the Public Health Response
Task Force and that is focused around current issues, which is you know the contact tracing, the
testing that is going to be done all the way through future actions that are expected hopefully through
maybe vaccinations and those types of activities; so all of that is within that Task Force. And three
others that we recently added; the first one being school issues; so we have worked to integrate the
School Department's efforts into the City response. We had a call with Dr. Mosley this morning so that
we have a direct contact with the School District to enable us to share resources with them and then
identify when they have concerns, can we request those things through the State Emergency
Operations Center.

The fourth Task Force is Economic Recovery. So there have been some efforts to provide services to
business, the Small Business Administration as an example has authorized economic injury loans for
businesses similar to what we would find after a natural disaster or something like that. But there are
likely to be more programs and initiatives that are going to come out of this to assist businesses larger
and small. We need to have our game plan as to how those types of services will be continued. That
Task Force will also be responsible for looking at supply chain issues. So one of our concerns is
around Supermarkets, Pharmacies and enabling them to get back up and running if possible, that is
something that we need to be planning for now even though grocery stores and pharmacies are
completely open. We need to be thinking in the future rather than thinking about what is going to
happen tomorrow.

The last one that we’ve identified as a Task Force is Community Distribution. And so in this case we
are looking at what types of efforts would need to be done by the City to partner with some of the work
that is being done with the United Way right now around the distribution of supplies and other
necessary things within the community. So we work to identify who might be a resource in that case
and we’ve also talked to Community Development about leading that Task Force even though that’s
not something they do day-to-day, they don’t distribute supplies in the community. But they do have

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experience with transportation systems, the transit system, figuring out what types of community-
based organizations we have here in the City that can assist through Urban Programs or there might
be some opportunity to make that work.

We have virtual operations center, Virtual Emergency Operation Center established, which all of the
City leadership as well as other key stakeholders across the community like our hospitals and some of
the non-profits are on. And what we are using that for is a way to share information among all those
players is to actions that are being taken, announcements that are being made and also requests. So
if somebody has something like a question that comes up about “where do we get this” or “how do we
do this” we will triage that request within the Emergency Management Team and send that to the right
Department.

The other thing that we are working on and we have a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss getting it
formalized is a coordinated effort among all of our Public Relations and External Affairs folks within the
City. So we have a number of folks that are tasked to that day-to-day within the City and because this
is sort of an all hands on deck type of response that we are dealing with, we are going to leverage
those communications professionals, the External Affairs / Public Relations folks to help communicate,
provide press releases, social media updates to all those community stakeholders. So it is a one voice
across the City rather than every Department kind of doing their own thing.

| just will close with one thing that | think is important for the Board of Aldermen to be aware of, but yet
| don’t have all the answers and I’m not sure when | will. There was a Disaster Declaration, National
Disaster Declaration through the Stafford Act, to enable reimbursements related to the COVID-19
response and they are focused around what types of actions the City is taking to respond to the crisis.
There is still a lot of unknowns around the use of that funding related to losses, so say you know if we
had a loss related to revenue within the City due to this, if we were using it to pay employees that
couldn’t work, there are still a lot of unknowns on whether this can be used for those types of things.
However, we do know that actions that are being taken by our Fire Department, our Police
Department, Public Health you have your own set of money that’s coming in from the State; but all of
those Departments are taking a critical role in responding to this crisis. We will be able to be
reimbursed 75% for that incident so that’s something that we have asked all the City Departments to
ensure that they are maintaining the documentation because if you have ever been through a FEMA
reimbursement process, the one thing you know is you have to have all of your back-up
documentation, or else you are not going to get the check.

We also have to ensure we are following all of our procurement rules and requirements or else they
can take the money back from us when they realize that we didn’t follow the rules. So it just important
for all of you to be familiar with, that is something that we are considering when it comes to the type of
actions that we are taking as a City, whether we would be reimbursed or not. It does help us with some
of the decision making, because during some disasters we don’t know if we are going to get a disaster
declaration, so we are a little leery about whether we are going to put a massive investment in
something, whether we are hiring a large number of staff to support something. Well in this case, we
know that it’s there and that we can use for this response.

We are working with Administrative Services as well as all of the other Divisions on finalizing the
implementation plan for our continuity, you know, the plan that was discussed by the Mayor earlier this
evening around Wednesday being close off to the public. And then Friday having our operations
curtailed to only those essential employees that need to come in and serve as like a skeleton crew to
make sure that transition has worked well. That is something that | think really supports what Public
Health needs, what our Community Health needs and will enable an approach for us to leverage
employees as part of the disaster response for the City. So I'll take any questions.

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President Wilshire

Thank you. Alderwoman Kelly and then Alderman Dowd.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you, you were very thorough and | appreciated that. | have a couple of questions; | know you
said, rightly so, that communication and sharing communication is going to be very key; we are at the
front lines talking to people daily. They have questions, so question one — | heard you say emergency
management will triage. Is that where we should start if someone reaches out to us with a question or
a need?

Director Kates

Yes so what we want to do is we will want to send any requests from you know the public any requests
about questions related to the incident to our Joint Information Center. The Joint Information Center is
really that operation where there’s the Mayor’s Office, the PIO, Public Information Officer from Public
Health, the other Public Affairs/Relations folks from all the other City Departments. That way they can
identify who has the best answer for that specific question. And that for right now, send it to
Emergency Management but we do have an e-mail address that doesn’t come to mind because we
just set it up today that we will use to have the public that has a question about some sort of issue in
the community, reach out to the PIO’s from those organizations. Media as well, and all those would go
through that funnel, and we will have all that information up on the City Web Site once the e-mail
address is finalized and ready for the public.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you, my second question was how information will be shared with the Board of Aldermen. Will
it just be put up on the web site? Will we get memos when things change because | know it is
changing pretty quickly but also making sure we have the right information?

Director Kates

Sure, so one of the things that we can do and this is another function of that Joint Information Center,
is any of our key updates, we can send that easily to the distribution list for the Board of Aldermen, so
that way you are clued in to what is going on. We can easily do that and make sure that that happens.
The other thing that | would mention is that it is important to stay tuned regarding social media posts,
so make sure that you are following Public Health, Emergency Management, but also our State and
Federal Counterparts, because again, |’ll be honest with you, that’s how we are finding out a lot of
things. You know? People are asking about the whole bar closing thing and I’m like, well, I’m looking
on the Governor's Web Site and the Executive Order is not up there, yet it was on Twitter. So
definitely, really make sure that you are following social media for these official accounts to ensure that
you know what is taking place here during this response. It is evolving quickly and so they are trying to
use tools like social media to get the information out as quickly as possible.

President Wilshire

We do appreciate being involved in updates. Thank you.

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Director Kates

Absolutely.

Alderman Dowd

Last Friday | asked Senator Shaheen, this is sort of new and reactionary, the Federal, State and Local
levels and | asked her if somebody was recording lessons learned and see what works and what
doesn’t work and keep a playbook so if it happens again we don’t have to re-invent the wheel. So do
we have somebody locally that is tasked with keeping track of what we are doing, what works, what
doesn’t work, so if does happen again, we will be ahead of it instead of behind it?

Director Kates

Yeah so that’s something that we do not do well as a profession. I’m Sure you see we have disasters
all the time and it seems like if you look at the news, we have the same issues, every single time. To
me, | have a passion for lessons learned and continuous improvement. We actually have a person
that was with us in our Emergency Operation Center today that was keeping a log of some the critical
issues that we were dealing with. One of the things that we do after the event is and this not
uncommon, this is not something that our office only does. If we do after action report, postmortem,
the idea is to take all those lessons learned and document them. The challenge is, that we all fail at, is
to ensure that those lessons learned have corrective actions and that we resolve them as they
progress forward. But then also that our successors are aware of those same issues as well as our
counterparts elsewhere across the country.

One of the things that we’ve been doing is monitoring what is going on in other jurisdictions, we have a
number of colleagues and we are using that to adjust some of our tactics and what things we are doing
as an organization. We are stealing a lot of things from our jurisdictions where we will see something
like a sample press release that they are using and saying, “hmm... actually rather than us wasting
two hours’ worth of our time drafting something new, can we leverage this and adjust it for the City of
Nashua”. So we have been doing it kind of both ways, documenting things that we can share with our
partners here within the City but also our partners outside of the City in the future. But then also taking
information, lessons learned, from other places that are actually in a much worse state than we are in
right now and trying to adapt them before it becomes much worse here in the City.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Director, as you know in my past life, we’ve worked together.

Director Kates

Yeah, we did.

Alderman O’Brien

Nothing as serious as this thankfully. But my time on the job | remember the other one the Bird Flu,
but anyways, | am glad what we are doing, it makes prudent sense, shutting down, limited access to
City Hall, to schools. But | am concerned about our First Responders and that’s the Police and that’s

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the Fire. They cannot pick and choose on the calls that they receive; they cannot because of the
nature of their duty enforce the six-foot rule that we have heard about. We should maintain that
boundary in dealing with people. If we are isolating City Hall and other things, | do know there’s, |
would hope that everybody in the City would be on their best behavior and nobody gets arrested, but |
don’t think we are in that utopic place right now.

However, are we looking at our First Responders to limit the access such as the Fire Stations? It has
got to be bad enough going on these particular calls. And should we also look at the casual exposure
of these two integral facilities, Police and Fire, and as well, we do have some other programs that are
out there such as where people come into the Fire House for a Safe Station Environment. I’d hate to
see that program suffer, but are not some of those people some our less healthy than some of our
other citizens? So you know, | haven’t heard anything really, and | know you are speaking in general
terms and | don’t mean, if | am getting too specific, | apologize. But to me, those are very big concerns
to me, and are we at least with those Division Heads working to come up with a plan with this?

Director Kates

Sure so |’ll mention a couple of things. | am going to let the Police and the Fire Department; | think

later they are talking a little bit about what types of actions they are doing and they can talk about
some of the specifics. And I'll also let Bobbie talk a little bit about some of the work that her folks have
done to provide them with almost like a decision matrix so that they have a better indication of the call
that they are going to, whether they need to take some additional precautions or not.

So one of the things that we did do as part of that continuity review when we went with all the
Divisions, we included some of the Divisions that don’t report to the Mayor but we wanted to ensure
that we had them coordinated just the same way that we would with any of our City Divisions. So Fire
and Police were heavily involved in that and provided some insight related to the types of activities that
they need to continue. Some of them are very obvious, but we were able to work through and identify
some that are not really critical for us to continue through this crisis and helps to reduce the burden
and likelihood that their personnel are going to be in a dangerous situation. You know, things like
burning permits, those are the types of activities that we can curtail through this crisis.

One of the other things that has come up considerably that we have been working through and
working to try to identify some ability to try and get this stuff to the City is personal protective
equipment. So we know that is one of the global concerns right now,; it is not just even a City, State or
Federal concern; it’s the lack of personal protective equipment for responders. There’s been a lot of
efforts from the CDC to enable some provisions for other types of personal protective equipment to be
used by personnel and | know that that information has been pushed out and that’s enabling us to
provide service when we’ve got situations where there might not be the N95 Respirator that provides
the best level of protection. There are also efforts now related to how we would approach that type of
a response. Can we get information about how to keep that person outside, rather than inside if
possible? So those are behavior changes that we hope to have implemented in all the First
Responder Communities across the Country and | think that is something that we are seeing.

| will let Bobbie talk a little bit about some of the work that she did to assist the Fire and Police
Departments around identifying calls that come in and how to triage whether that person might be
somebody at risk for the Coronavirus.

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Director Bagley

Thank you, Justin. So when we think about our Public Health Infrastructure and our Public Health
System, Police and Fire, as well as our municipality and our school, all are part of that system. So you
know we have to think about the all on deck, all hands-on deck approach with this and we also need to
make sure that we can protect all those hands that are on deck. So we did work over the weekend
with creating a flow chart that would help prevent exposure to infectious respiratory diseases. In
working with both the Chief of the Police Department and the Chief of the Fire Department and some
of the folks that were there, we went through and developed a process of questions that would allow
for the Officers and the Fire Fighters to be safe in their encounters. And you are right, so they can’t
pick and choose and they can’t say, “No I’m not going there” because that’s a part of our job as
protecting, preserving and serving the public.

So there’s a flow chart that was developed. Chief Carignan came up with a set of four questions that
are based off the screening things that we have for healthcare professionals. And we just created this
flow chart that helps the officers and the firefighters. Sorry I’ll pass that around that way. And so you
know it was preempted also by dispatch, these questions being asked ahead of time so that the
officers and the firefighters and AMR know what they are going into when they are going on the scene.
So this set of questions here just allows for them to again reiterate these certain questions: Do you
have a fever greater than 100.4 or are showing signs of symptoms of a lower respiratory illness such
as a cough, shortness of breath. And if there is a “yes” to that or an affirmative to that question, then
we want the fire fighter or the officer to put on their surgical face mask that they can use.

If they have come into close contact with an individual who has a laboratory confirmed COVID-19
diagnosis in the past 14 days, if the person answers “yes” in that encounter, then we are asking them
to maintain social distancing as much and as long as they possibly can, because at some point in time,
they do have to get closer to the individual. And then also there’s a question, “Are you physically able
to meet the responder outside”. And so if the individual can come outside, then the responders do not
have to go inside of an apartment or into a house. If they can, the person will come outside, if they
can’t, then we want again, for officers and our fire fighters to use the personal protective equipment
that they have as they are interacting with the individual.

And then it just goes on of how to dispose of those gloves, the mask and again washing hands
afterwards, in-between each encounter. These are things that we are taught; | trained as a Fire
Fighter, probably under you Alderman, probably under Chief Rhodes as well. And so these are things
that we are taught initially and it doesn’t hurt for these reminders to be there, because again we want
to make sure that our Fire Fighters and our Police Officers are protected at all stages.

Alderman O’Brien

And you express a very point; so when a provider, AMR or a Fire Fighter or the Police Officer asks you
to step outside and | just want the public to know this, under these extreme circumstances, they are
not being rude, they are asking it for their particular safety as well as the patient’s particular safety.

We would hope that our citizens would be compliant as that matter of safety to those requests.

Alderman Dowd

Just a quick thing, | Know you are probably doing this but it seems like in Washington, they've lost the
ability to do it. When people call in and you are going to have other people assisting you, if they ask
the same question, they should always get the same answer. Because if you start getting different

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answer, social media will blow that up in a heartbeat, so even if you have to write down, “here’s the
official response answer’ for the people that help you, it would go a long way. Because like | said, if it
gets out in different answers, people are going to pick up on that and then they won't trust the call in.

Director Kates

Sure. So one of the things that we had talked about today, again we’ve done a lot of this stuff, we’ve
just never done it to this massive scale. We've set up call centers before related to natural disasters,
so if we’ve got a major Noreaster that comes through the City, we’ve had a line set up where people
can call in and report non-emergency related things, “I’ve got a tree down in the middle of the road
here” or “I need a bottle of oxygen re-filled at my property”. Those types of things, things that we don’t
want people calling 911 for. The challenge that we recognized during those incidents going back to
the whole Lessons Learned/Continuous Improvement, if you have to have a shared document, shared
location where everybody who is answering a phone in the City can see that one location. So that way,
the messaging that goes out, that question and answer is the same regardless.

So Public Health has already started to develop some of the like frequently asked questions related to
the health side of things. As we start seeing some of the consequences that are non-public health-
related like, “Il need food”, “I need things ...” that are outside of the scope of COVID-19, we are going
to add those types of things to our canned responses that we are providing back to citizens and it will
all be in one central location so that way if they call Public Health or if they call the Mayor’s Office of if
they call Public Works as an example, they all have the same information to be able to provide back to
the residents.

Alderman Dowd

So Lesson Learned from the Middle School Project that would cut down on some of your calls is to
have a place where people can go look at frequently asked questions and then they won't have to call
in and ask you again. You can grow that list as you get more questions and more answers.

Director Kates

Exactly.

Alderman Klee

Actually that was my comment and my question, these shared documents and frequently asked
questions, they will be accessible by the public?

Director Kates

Yes, we would want the same information that we are pushing out via the phone to be the same
information that’s on the web. So it all has to be on the same platform and that’s the concept behind
the Joint Information Center. So having all of the folks who do external relations with the community
all have to be in sync on the messaging that they are pushing out. Even something as simple as if we
send out a Press Release, we need to have all those players review it first so that way there’s not
something that’s not correct in there that goes out and then we have to send out a separate Press
Release from the other Department to explain those things. So as much as possible we want to have

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streamlined communications with just one direct avenue for the media to get information or the public
to get information.

Alderman Klee

Follow up, thank you | really do appreciate that and | want to comment to the Department of Public
Health. That one page that you have on the COVID-19 | have shared that and | have gotten a lot of
really good responses. Thank you for all the information that you have on it, you have the CDC
information, the one-page information that explains what is and what are the symptoms thereof, it’s
been very helpful. Thank you. So that really goes a long way.

Alderman Lopez

Do you have plans for making sure that information can be disseminated to people who are deaf or
people who are speaking different languages?

Director Kates

Yeah so that was one of the concerns that we had brought up at our leadership meeting this morning
was to ensure that any of the materials that are put out there can be done in multiple languages. IT
did go through a process to ensure that the translate function on the web site is functioning properly
and is working. They also sent us sort of like a fact sheet to enable us to let the public know about that
type of information and we pushed that out through our Joint Information Center.

The thing that the Joint Information Center will help us to do is to leverage the resources that we have
in other Departments to do translation services because as an example, our office doesn’t have that
capability if we send out a Press Release. | can’t translate those things. So the School Department
has some of those capabilities, Public Health has some of those capabilities, so we can share the
wealth to ensure that any of that kind of stuff, regardless of whether it is specific to that Department or
not, can use those same services.

Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director

Good evening, just to build off of that, so everybody knows if you go to the City’s Web Site through
Google, Google Translation, and that point was raised today just to build off of that. So where we are,
we have started working with Director Kates and Director Bagley what seems like weeks ago now but
probably not that long. Originally the Mayor came to you and asked you for $50,000.00, so let’s start
there. That really was Phase |. We needed those funds in order to purchase supplies in order to have
overtime and some temporary help to keep City Hall clean, not only City Hall, all of our City Buildings,
Public Health Building, that was really Phase |. To keep the residents and the employees that are in
our buildings safe. So we thank all of our City employees for working hard, cleaning their surfaces,
cleaning their areas. We thank our City Building Staff for going over and above. That was that first
Phase.

So now as we look to move to the Second Phase and we look to have people work remotely like
Director Kates said, that is challenging in a municipality. You’ve seen much more of it in the private
sector. So currently, we have over 100 employees that have access to Citrix and for those of you that
don’t know what Citrix is, Citrix is a software that allows you to dial in remotely and access our City
Systems. So whether it be Kronos our payroll system or whether it be Lawson our financial system