Potential Special Called Meeting on COVID-19
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 4:40 pm
Colleagues,
The Mayor Pro Tem and I recommend that Council consider having a Special Called Meeting for the purpose of having a COVID-19 briefing and an Executive Session on related legal issues.
We would propose an agenda to include items like the following:
• Reports from Dr. Escott and Austin Public Health - what’s being done to deal with the rise in cases, hospital admissions, and infectivity we’re
now seeing.
• Information on recent modeling and what that tells us about future scenarios and timelines
• As specifically requested by Mayor Pro Tem Garza, and to which I emphatically agree is key, - our current strategies to deal with and mitigate
and current and planned efforts to address the protections for and the disproportionate and increasing outbreak in vulnerable communities,
especially the Black and the LatinX/Hispanic communities.
• Reports on RISE and other COVID funding, including an assessment of possible budget increases for fighting the virus itself
We would anticipate this to be a meeting with briefings and discussion, not for items posted for action.
Please let us know if you agree and we’ll ask the Agenda Office to find us the best and soonest time for us to get together. If there are other topics you want to make sure are addressed, please add those, too.
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The Mayor Pro Tem and I recommend that Council consider having a Special Called Meeting for the purpose of having a COVID-19 briefing and an Executive Session on related legal issues.
We would propose an agenda to include items like the following:
• Reports from Dr. Escott and Austin Public Health - what’s being done to deal with the rise in cases, hospital admissions, and infectivity we’re
now seeing.
• Information on recent modeling and what that tells us about future scenarios and timelines
• As specifically requested by Mayor Pro Tem Garza, and to which I emphatically agree is key, - our current strategies to deal with and mitigate
and current and planned efforts to address the protections for and the disproportionate and increasing outbreak in vulnerable communities,
especially the Black and the LatinX/Hispanic communities.
• Reports on RISE and other COVID funding, including an assessment of possible budget increases for fighting the virus itself
We would anticipate this to be a meeting with briefings and discussion, not for items posted for action.
Please let us know if you agree and we’ll ask the Agenda Office to find us the best and soonest time for us to get together. If there are other topics you want to make sure are addressed, please add those, too.
-s