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MINUTES OF THE ORONO EMERGENCY CITY COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:30 o'clock p.m. Walsh moved, Johnson seconded, to accept the COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. Rief displayed COVID-19 Plan Administration and Finance information. The plan is segmented into people who work at City Hall, Police Officers, and Public Works. He discussed efforts Staff at City Hall have taken as far as cleaning at Level 3. He indicated the plan addresses the additional impacts on each of the departments and how Staff should react. The technology piece comes into place more so at Levels 4- 5. They have pretty much eliminated face-to-face services other than applying social distancing rules at building inspections until Metro West Inspection indicates they are not willing to do so anymore. Forniak stated the Police Department does not really have any restrictions in place on how they respond to the public. They are responding to calls as normal. Once they get to the scene, they are evaluating at - scene as to whether to enter the house, meet the individual outside or from their driveway, or from within sight of their house to deal with the situation. They are patrolling as usual, making sure they have a visible presence to have somewhat of a calming effect. At the Police Department, they have a barrier with glass at the front and deal with people through the glass. For office staff, they may look at a rotating schedule to make sure they always have one person coming in and one is off so they can remain healthy. They are also working with 8 other Police Departments on a plan that, in the case of an emergency, there are roughly 106 officers in the lake area and, if certain conditions are met, it enforces a certain service protocol to combine and act as one department. He described the schedule that is in place in that event. For any calls that require medicals, they will go in houses and wear proper gloves, etc., and decontaminate as necessary. There are restrictions in place as far as transportation of those individuals. Printup asked whether the Lake area plan was with Police Departments or whether it was Police, Fire, and all emergency personnel. Forniak said at this point it is just the Police Department. The Fire Department already has a good system set up with box alarms. The Fire Chief sat in on the meeting with the Lake Area Police Chiefs when they went through their plan, and the Fire Chief is working on a response plan with situations from both a state fire level as well as neighboring departments to implement if necessary. Printup clarified whether the Fire Department is also working on a response plan. Forniak said he was correct. Crosby asked if the Police Department felt like they had ample PPE equipment. Forniak said currently they do because they are not wearing masks since there are no identifiable situations in the area. They are debating as to whether to put the masks on the person versus Police Department personnel. They can put requests in through Hennepin County Emergency Management, it goes up the chain to the State and Feds, and comes back down. There are stockpiles but it may take a few days and quantities may be limited to what you need, not what you want to have on hand. They have protocols on what to do when an officer leaves a scene before they get into a car so they don't bring anything back. Crosby stated if they suspect a person, it would be a good idea to get a mask on them as opposed to anyone else. Page 5 of 8