Board of Aldermen 03-16-2020 Page 32
Alderman Tencza
Thank you Director Kleiner (inaudible) Solutions not going into homes at this time, it explains that once
the Health Department approves them to go into homes, they will communicate with the homeowners
and set up an appointment to go meet with the homeowner and do interior inspection if the
homeowner chooses to do so. Does that also extend to City employees, non-emergency City
employees, people whose water heaters are going to break in the next month or so and you know they
are supposed to have a follow up inspection done by the Building Department. I’m sure in Public
Works for people to have to go into people’s homes. Can we say tonight that that’s going to be, this
policy is going to be extended to those folks?
Director Kleiner
Well | can speak about Assessing. So Assessing right now whether it is Vision Inspectors or our
Assessors they will not be doing interior inspections at this point. The State is handling this the same
way so the Assessor that work for the Department of Revenue, they have suspended interior
inspections and entry into any home as has many municipalities across the State and | will give it over
to Justin.
Director Kates
So there are a couple of things that we’ve determined that we have to continue at least for a period of
time that | really don’t want to continue but we have to do it. So one of them is building inspections.
We are trying to figure out some way to limit the possibility of exposure as they go into a building. | will
let Bobbie talk a little bit about how they’ve come up with a sort of a decision matrix for those
employees similar to what they did with the Fire and Police Departments. But again, it still doesn’t
prevent the exposure and it is something that we want to try and take every precaution possible to
ensure the safety of the employees.
The other are that does concern me significantly that we can’t stop right now until we get some
assistance from the State and Federal Government is the bus service. So FTA has put out guidance
to our Transit Department and it is basically like we are not going to give you any guidance at all and
that’s where it stands. So there are concerns with shutting down a service like transit particularly when
we look at para transit, we have identified that as an essential function because we need to get people
to medical appointments and those types of activities. But you know how a bus works, there’s lots of
people on it. They are in close quarters and we want to try and limit those types of activities. So those
are some things that we will have to continue at least in the short term until we get some support from
the State and Federal Government. And then I'll let Bobbie talk a little about the decision matrix they
came up with.
Mayor Donchess
Just on the buses, one issue is that Federal Transit has said that if you stop the buses you cannot pay
the drivers. So you know they would go without pay for as long as the buses were not running. There
is a lot of Federal Transit money in the system so they pay for the vast majority of it so we have to
follow their instructions.
