CC MINUTES 03192020 EMERGENCY MEETING

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City Council Emergency Meeting Minutes March 19, 2020 Page 4 1 believe there were any items that could not be postponed until the April 14th meeting. Mayor 2 Stille thought the City Council should cancel the March 24th meeting if the Council agrees with 3 him. 4 5 Motion by Councilmember Jenson, seconded by Councilmember Walker, to cancel the March 6 24, 2020 City Council meeting and move the agenda items to the April 14, 2020 City Council 7 meeting. 8 9 Motion carried 5-0. 10 11 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 12 13 Mayor Stille asked for an update from Councilmember Webster on how the Community Services 14 Department has been fairing over the last couple of weeks. 15 16 Councilmember Webster indicated that this week the School District is on Spring Break and the 17 Governor did choose to close Minnesota Schools from March 18th through March 27th for the 18 purpose of planning for distance learning to begin on March 30th. What that looks like for the 19 School District as a whole, starting Monday, March 23rd, when all of the staff return back from 20 Spring Break an all staff meeting will be hosted with some virtual and some of it in enlarged 21 space in order to follow social distancing rules. This meeting will be to help staff understand 22 what the week of planning will look like starting March 30th when distance learning begins and 23 what that will look like as well. 24 25 Councilmember Webster explained also starting March 23rd, families did receive an email earlier 26 in the day that they have to also start providing daily food deliveries. There will be four drop 27 sites in which families can go and pick up food delivery every day. She explained Community 28 Services effectively shut down its operations on Tuesday, March 17th and starting Wednesday, 29 March 18th they opened emergency childcare for first responders and health care professionals in 30 the community. For children 12 and younger, if the resident is a first responder or health care 31 professional please give them a call -in order to get set up for child care which is every day from 32 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and includes breakfast, lunch and a snack and is 33 staffed by the Village Kids staff this week. 34 35 Councilmember Webster stated something else residents can look forward to is they are looking 36 at ways in which they can deliver some community outreach. Look for staff making phone calls 37 to residents because they want to check in with community members at this time and know that 38 spending a lot of time in homes alone can be difficult with regards to social isolation and they 39 want to reach out to get people the resources that they may need. 40 41 Councilmember Webster reminded residents that if healthy to please give blood. That is 42 something that is needed at this time. 43 44 Councilmember Jenson stated last week on March 13th he attended the Ramsey County Local 45 League of Governments and they had a guest speaker, Charlie Zelly and he talked about high