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good morning how is everybody my name is Tim McKee I'm the CEO the late the Chamber of Commerce and I would like to welcome everybody to our Friday a zoom call like many of you I am operating out of my home during this pandemic and trying to remain safe and so here at the Olathe Chamber of Commerce we are committed to trying to provide information to our local businesses on not only how to remains safe but also safely return to business and today we have two guests with us one from the state of Kansas and one from our County and I'm going to let our lobbyists Natalie bright here in a minute and introduce them but you know if if there are any questions we're going to allow them to provide information in regard to safely reopening our businesses and if there are any questions we have the chat mode that you can fill in messages that you would like to have our two guests answer once their presentations are done so with that I'd like to welcome you once again and I'm going over to our lobbyist Natalie right Natalie can you introduce our guests thank you good morning thank you Tim and thanks everybody for being on the call I am very excited to have our lieutenant governor Lynn Rogers who will kick off this webinar and go over the plan that the state has put together I will report that I believe most counties have adopted this plan which i think is great for the state of Kansas some have a few different restrictions but overall and Jo O'Connor who will be following Lieutenant Governor Lynn will go over the Johnson County differences but real quick so everybody understands where lieutenant governor has come from he's been involved in public service for many years he started out as a businessman he worked in the banking industry in the AG community but then decided to run for the Wichita school board where he served as the president he then had moved to the Kansas Senate where he served before he was asked by the governor Laura Kelly to serve as her lieutenant governor I've worked with Lieutenant Governor Lynn for many years I'm sorry Lynn Rogers I said I haven't calling him Lynn and we he's a great friend he's always willing to open and listen and so when we had this request of the administration to go over what the plan would look like he did real quick before we get started I did want to reiterate that we are recording this presentation and that if you would like to turn your camera off you may do so and then secondly that all questions will come through the chat all mics have been muted and that will just help for the flow of the conversation we're going to have questions of the lieutenant governor first and then we'll go to Joe Connor and I will introduce him and we'll have questions and then Joe will answer those because our lieutenant governor does have some other commitments and we'll need to get off so with no more ado I'd like to introduce Lieutenant Governor Lynn Rogers thanks so much for joining us thank you Natalie thank you Tim and thank you all for for joining me this morning it's a it's a privilege to be able to address you as well as to serve as your lieutenant governor as you know the the last 810 weeks have been very unique and probably a period of time we don't ever want to have to live over again but I have been very proud as how Kansans have stepped up to do the right thing for their friends for their neighbors and for their community I know many of you probably have seen parts of the reopening fly on the ad astra plan and if you haven't gone to the web site I would encourage you to do that and that's Kovan dot KS gov and there's a wide range of information the plan itself questions and answers as well as other things that are very important for for you to look at for people to see it also includes industry guidelines and things of that nature and while we were in the process you know everyone stayed at home the the governor staff and governor started working on this reopening plan right away and one of the things that we we did was we tried to talk to as many industry groups and business groups as we could to find out what was important to them to reopen we also studied the effect of previous pandemics similar to the the 1918 and we looked at the communities that opened early and those that that were a little bit slower and what we found was like I believe it was Philadelphia and different places that opened really early had a big parade to quote-unquote welcome back rhea normal ended up having a huge resurgence of the flu and lost a lot of different people so as we as we went through that we wanted to make sure that we were cautious and that we were careful and not have a situation where that comes back again the plan itself is is four steps we are currently in phase one that began I believe Monday at midnight and phase one will go through all the way up to May 18th and Phase two will not open no sooner than May 18th and what we're asking there is that you know again we have a groups of no more than ten restaurants and some businesses can start reopening but again we're going to be be very careful phase two we continue to watch that progress that would be then 30 people phase three would be 90 and then face out which isn't really a phase four that would start no sooner than June fifteenth and again all of these phases and all of these dates are based on health metrics that will be determining the governor will will look with our state health officials and we also you know have done a lot of work talking to local County health officials as well but we look at the death rates we look at the hospitalizations we look at the spread of the disease are there additional clusters that are coming up we're wanting to make sure that that those things are under control some people are panicky because you know the number of cases that we're finding are going up we're having you know a couple hundred or more cases a day that we're just but that's not just because there's more cases yes there are but we're also doing a lot more testing and you know we've gotten finally what we feel is a somewhat adequate supply of testing and as we've set this for phase process up one of the things that we've looked at is how do we control if there is an additional outbreak do we have the resources to not only do the testing that we need but do we also have the mechanism to do the contact tracing and the KDHE dr. Norman are putting together a team of some paid but mostly volunteer contact tracers the they'll be looking at if they come up with a new faces who are those people that are working on the second we have a repair going on in the building what we're looking at the contract tracers will well if someone gets a case they'll go in and determine you know they'll talk to those people find out who they've seen and who they've thought and that's one of the reasons we're wanting to be cautious on this is that people you know oftentimes don't even you know if they're at a party and if they don't know who's there they can't even determine and be told that they've been exposed to code 19 so so again we've been trying to we you know most of this is just based on caution we know it's important to keep this virus in check and we're continuing to learn more things about this virus as well and so that is his changing it's one of the things dr. Norman mentioned this last week was you know the number of people that have been testing positive but don't really remember having any symptoms or if they were they were very very mild and so but they're still carrying the virus and can and spread that to other people so so those are some of the things that we're looking at we're wanting and in phase one to people to continue to to minimize their travel be careful as to who they go out and see encourage employers to continue to do tell if they can and and that in that regard we're also asking people to wear masks and that I know is controversial people think that's you know a bad sign well I wear it all the time and when I'm out and the reason is I really care about my neighbors and my friends and my family and I don't want to spread it and it really is wearing that mask is protection for you not necessarily for me so so I think it's important that we maintain those those those issues and continue to do social media social distancing phase two no sooner than May 18th we'll start opening some things up they'll be again will encourage masks and and social distancing you know we want to continue some of the things we'll move up to 30 there'll be additional businesses that can reopen but I think again as I hear around the state some people are still being very careful not just the business person opening their business but the customer being hesitant to go in unless they know that business is doing everything they can to to protect them and keep them safe as well so phase three then would be I believe no sooner than what's my date here may know it's doom one I believe and you know there'll be additional opening up there will go to no more than 90 again everything we can do to you know to keep personal hygiene in place wash their hands be careful on all those kinds of things you know some more business travel can probably resume you know I tell people one of the things that I really miss my favorite part of this job is travel and visiting Kansas I think I've been to you know over 75 counties and that has slowed to nothing and so I really do want to get back out again too but I don't want to make anybody unsafe so and then if we can get through that phase and again the health metrics are in place we'll move into the phase-out which we haven't set a number for how large the mass gathering can be but when we talk about these health metrics the governor will actually start meeting with our Secretary of Health and Environment next week to talk about where our numbers are and we'll be you know continuing to brief the public through the governor's press briefings or Monday Wednesdays and Fridays now as to where we're at with that and again we'll hope we hope to give as much advance warning that we're ready to move from phase 1 to phase 2 and phase 2 to phase 3 so you'll see reports probably midweek before the next phase is supposed to begin to either say we'll move forward or we're gonna stay where we're at for the time being but but again the primary purpose is is to stay safe to minimize the the number of deaths and to keep our health facilities from being overwhelmed one of the other things we've been encouraged by McNutt besides the testing we've been starting to get a little bit more supplies when it comes to PPE personal protection equipment that has still been a very difficult process we started ordering you know masks and gowns and and face shields as a state I think we have over 40 million dollars of that on order but again because we were competing against all the other states and many cities and counties and the FEMA itself those have been slow to come but we're starting to see those come in and again getting those out as fast and as as soon as we can so that kind of is the I think the highlights that I have you know I think the the biggest thing and I appreciate particularly what I've seen in Johnson County is the concern for protecting their community and protecting you know their citizens so so I appreciate that I encourage you to you know continue let's stay strong and and again if you've got questions I'd be happy to answer as well as you know if you have good questions after I leave get those to Tim or Natalie and know make sure that they get them to us and we'll get them answer for you Thank You lieutenant governor I appreciate it I think one question that came in was if there is a second wave has the state started working on a plan and what that might look like we are starting to look at that we don't quite know you know what the second wave would look at so we have to have a lot of what-ifs and so that is something that we're talking about particularly you know there is some thinking that it could happen again in the fall that's again one of the reasons why we're trying to put as much emphasis on PPE equipment and and things of that nature that's been one of the biggest reasons many businesses can't reopen is they don't have access like other places do inference barbers and cosmetologists you know we've gotten some grief on that one but you know our mom-and-pop barbers and cosmetologist felt like they wouldn't have the same access to PPE that the big chains would so that was one of the one of their concerns about opening in phase one but again going forward if we have some of that it'll make it easier to keep some of those businesses open in a different way than we did in this this first process great one more question is can you provide clarification of the ten person limit for example if social distancing is observed can more than ten people be in a building during phase one as I understand it you like example of a church if if people are in a restaurant you know they can have a to ten people at a table that that already are together so you know if it's a family that has been socially distancing in their home you know it's not ten strangers at a table in the nest the limit you know they would be able to do that as long as their that group of less than ten is at least six feet away from another table or another group of photos and that there is as little interaction between those groups and staff as we as you can can be and again I think that's the concern is like even in a grocery store there's more than 10 in a store but people are not going to be next to each other for long periods of time and again the more that people can do the socially distance where the masks and any other protective equipment the more they can do that you know the grocery stores the businesses that have made the aisles one way and limit how many can come in or do curbside I think those are the folks that are on the right track thank you I understand that the governor is putting together a covert task force can you share a little bit about what that task force will do what their vision is and any additional information or partnership with the community we have just hired a executive director for our recovery group they will help oversee the funds that are coming from the cares act that is Cheryl Harrison Lee who was the former city manager of Gardner so she's got some exposure there to Johnson County and then Lyle Butler is our gonna be our our board chair will be appointing some legislators will be appointing some other businesspeople and then one of the other things that I've talked with them because part of my job as lieutenant governor is our office of rural prosperity and one of the things I've talked about with Cheryl is that we would do regional conference calls similar to this to get feedback and input on on how those dollars can be spent and what they need what we need to do the cares Act itself has has put a sizable chunk of money available to the state there are some general broad parameters as to how that can be spent on on certain things CB c e BD g grants or they're gonna announce on that today there's some childcare money in it there's some housing we don't have a lot of information yet it we have a seven page document that came with with the money and we know that there will be a lot of information that will have to provide auditors and things afterwards so we're being again careful on that but that some of that will go out to reimburse cities and counties for some of their coded expenses you know Johnson counties you know got about 120 million I Tim can answer that a little bit more subject County will have access to about 99 million and for recovery response but we know a lot of other you know communities have have spent money for Kovan responses you know the big thing on those cares money right now is that it can't go to fill budget revenue holes and so we'll be looking at that as well we'll need invite advice and information on on how do we adjust our budget going forward as well all right thank you we have a quick question can you clarify when will churches be allowed to meet and maybe what are some of the parameters around those faith organization well faith organizations can meet n
w under the phase 1 the the 10 again if they can stay socially distanced you know 6 feet apart within the church so you know again a family of six can sit together but they would need to be you know 6 feet away from another family of 6 you know that type of thing they'd also there's some guidelines in terms of of you know deep cleaning and keeping you know social distance not I think some of the there's some guidelines on for instance passing out bulletins not collecting you know a collection plate you know handling that in a different way so that there's not a lot of interaction with people that way so they can start meeting you know right now and and they're not under the stay-at-home order like they were prior to the phase one I have another question what are the legal ramifications for when opening a business I think just as we need to get citizens comfortable going back out we need to have businesses comfortable and some of that concern is probably the legal ramifications with there's some dialogue or discussion that you had in the reopening plan about that we have we have talked about that and we've looked at that I know there's also concern on the on behalf of a number of legislators in that regard I do think that and we've also had some discussions with other and seeing what other states have done I believe Minnesota has put together an executive order where you know each business has to post their own plan kovat plan in terms of what they're doing and how they're doing it so I think if if businesses are abiding to as much as I can to the industry standards that that their industry has set up they're doing what they can to make and maintain social distancing and you know hygiene and cleanliness and showing that they're there doing extra cleaning those are some of the things that will will be good I don't think there's been an answer you know to that hard-and-fast I think you know the businesses that open wide up and have no consideration for you know people's safety while they there may or may not be legal ramifications I think there'll be business ramifications because again what I'm hearing from a lot of folks is they're still hesitant to go out until they're they're assured of what it could mean to them personally thank you here's a quick question it's not really related to the reopening but I think it's one that people always would appreciate an update on and that is the unemployment insurance and how those are being processed what's the status of the $600 check that's coming from the Fed the there what's interesting is I've gotten a great education on unemployment in the last few weeks you know there's actually six different programs that people could qualify for and we went from about 1800 claims a week and about 5,000 people that we were sending checks out to to over 50,000 it's almost a 15,000 percent increase for the number that we're handling I think we're now sending out checks to over 125,000 tomorrow was the deadline that we set for sending out to $600 extra from the federal government that actually started on the six so we were about three days early that's going out again that's kind of on a proportional basis so much each day for what the system can handle is you know the the system was originally designed in the 70s and and it's a big mainframe and we've literally had to re program to go from the 16 weeks to the 26 weeks then we had to program the $600 and now their team is working on the fluo which is the pandemic unemployment for the self-employed we're hopeful we'll be ready to go next week but we've had about 30 IT programmers that have been working on that and making that happen we originally had about 20 people working on unemployment when this all started taking in claims we doubled that to 40 we doubled it again to 80 and then we added doubled it again to about 150 and then have added another hundred 150 people to take phone calls that have come in from other places we're down from the 1.6 million phone calls that we were getting last week I have not seen the updated one but but there's quite a bit there we we are probably one of the better states where we had a good balance in our unemployment account you know about 960 million dollars was in that to start with we we sent out about 99 million dollars in benefits this last week now most of that was the six hundred dollars extra from the federal government so it's not a huge it's not a full 99 million dollar hit to the to the state plan but we are monitoring that to make sure that that stays healthy and and solvent so we hope that we we get people back to work you know that'll put less pressure on anybody that has not claimed they'll still get their back pay so if they've been unemployed from mid-may and they're just filing their claims now they'll get the pack the back pay as well as they go forward thank you okay we have another question that came in in regards to beauty salons they're being told only one customer at a time can come in but if they can accommodate the social distancing spacing requirements of 606 feet can they have more people come in and if the state's telling them no are there some legal issues there that may cause some heartache I have not heard the one person per salon question so I'll have our staff confirm that and get back to you I guess I would assume as long as those chairs can be six feet away you know from both the stylist and the customer the stylist wears a mask and you know all the the utensils and things are cleaned and whatnot I think that would probably be the key that instead of giving you bad answer I'll confirm that and we'll get back to you in that regard appreciate that I think these are obviously businesses primarily located in the Johnson County area but are curious about any differentials between the rural area and Johnson County and then you might also comment on the packing house concerns that we've seen in southwest Kansas how are those being addressed okay I would have to say that you know again my banking background was with Ag so I have I've heard have heard from a lot of my friends in rural Kansas during this period time and many of them at the beginning felt like this wasn't something that they needed to worry about it wasn't necessarily that important however you know I think when Seward and Finney and Ford and and Lyons County got hit with meatpacking plants many people saw how much it it impacted them and in rural Kansas oftentimes you know people live in one County and travel to in another and so you know we have 82 counties that have a case of some kind and what we've actually been seen with some of the meat packing tests that come back those are some of the folks that have had the virus or or whatnot they had you know a few light symptoms a few weeks ago but they're still carrying the the virus so so it has become very real to them and very understanding and again part of the concern is then not overwhelming our our hospitals in in rural Kansas you know they're the first line of defense for our Arkansas residents and and so you know I know in in Seward County they originally allocated 12 beds in their Hospital for kovat patients I think they've now moved it up to 22 there they're not they've never been totally full but you know it's been dependent on the number of respirators we used a Blackhawk helicopter to get some additional respirators out last week so we're making sure that they have the supplies that they need as well but you know in my hometown of Wichita again many of the patients that are in the hospitals there are from our rural parts of the state one of the things I think reason our meatpacking plants weren't hit quite as hard as some of them in other states is very early in this process the governor and I we called the owners and the the managers of those plants and asked them what they were going to do and they very quickly change some of their social distancing policy made sure that people took breaks at different times they weren't in the lunchroom at the same time they moved people farther apart on the line and so that really helps slow it down and in most of those counties as well we've also provided some housing where people can be quarantined if they're if they have the virus or if they've been exposed to it so that they don't take it back to their home into their community and share it with with family that then spreads it even further but in a couple of counties you know what we've seen with best results is like 1 in 40 people have it and so so it is a big concern and we we're taking it very serious again it's a major impact to our economy so we want to be careful you know from that regard okay I I want to make sure that we're respectful of your time I have one final question that came in about what is the plan for reopening the state offices when do you expect the state to be back at full capacity we are in that process now I know I was we were visiting with our Department of Revenue on licenses and things those are still being done by appointments many of those services you know again can now be done online which is helpful I expect some of those offices they'll be plans being announced for those early or sometime next week we see those coming through a number we're starting to see some people you know coming back into some of the state office buildings here we're also looking at what we can and should do for you know DCF and k2 ads and some of the other departments so I think we'll start seeing some movement in in that regard soon well lieutenant governor thank you so much for the partnership and being on the call today to walk us through please feel free to stay on as long as you can I am I am know that you have lots of other commitments but we'd love for you to join as long as you can and then now we're going to go and look for more of the local perspective we have assistant county manager Joe Connor joining us Joe thank you so much Joe comes from a long history of working with local government he was originally started with the Wyandotte unified government and then joined Johnson County I believe in 2019 and it served as the assistant county manager so we know that there is a little bit of a slight difference in Johnson County from the state plan and so we thought it would be a great opportunity for our members to hear where some of the differences are and maybe highlight those areas I know there are still lots of questions that maybe can be best answered at the local level so Joe thanks so much for joining us today we appreciate it thank you and I think Tim and everybody at the chamber thanks for the opportunity to present today we always take the opportunity to try to educate folks and answer questions in person when we can and it's like the lieutenant governor said it's getting harder now because we can't actually travel out to see people but that this is the best technology we have at this point so I appreciate the opportunity you want to say also big thank you to the residents and businesses in Johnson County that have really really performed well as far as the the restrictions that have been put in place and the things that have happened over the last six or seven weeks without that without that cooperation we wouldn't be where we're at today as far as hospitals not being overwhelmed businesses you know are essential businesses not being overrun and and that the spread of the virus being more than it is today so just a big thank you to everybody in the community for continuing for the you know for the behaviors that we've had up to this point and hopefully continue that continue that into the future so these have been extremely hard times and and we all real we all feel it here at the Johnson County government and they were going to to do what we can to provide information and to keep things moving forward so if you want to go to the next slide so this is some of the information that we discussed with our and our Board of County Commissioners meeting yesterday one of the clarifications that we made out with the state was if a business has a question or they'd like a clarification of where they're at on the phase designations that that's a local decision so we're glad to take those questions so we've got a couple different ways to do that calling our call center at nine one three seven one five five thousand or you can we have a kovat email address set up either way if a business has a question about that we'll take those questions in that way in in turnaround a response locally so we are following the states ke FF framework you know with that but there's I know there's always some questions about things that are in between there or just just just needing that a place to ask questions so and we're glad to do that so please please use those those two ways to do that on the next slide just want to provide an update so as the governor had talked about there's a lot of resources being developed and again we're wanting to use what the state has developed for that so the the address there gets you straight to the business and industry guidelines that's on the state's kovat website and and they've also got links to a KDHE who's issued some specific guidance in addition to the OSHA and CDC resources that are a little bit more broad and those are what we'll be referring to with businesses and so I just wanted to provide that kind of information upfront and that way you can get to it now and the and I believe that the these guidelines will be updated by the state as things change there's there's a lot of unknown when it comes to the virus and how it acts and how we should how we should respond to it and so as those industry guidelines change that that page will be updated as well so that that'll be the the latest and the best that we know of at this point a couple of questions I want to try to address at the beginning and and I guess the the first question is is on the they phased in plan for Johnson County if you look at the graphic on the left that's similar to what what the lieutenant governor had just shown and the only difference being is that our first day is Monday and so we will we will start with phase 1 on Monday you can see they're the ones that are open and the ones that are closed this is also on our located on our website as well we have a lot of resources for kovat 19 updates and so that's this will be our reopening plan and then the second the second graphic there is what I just talked about if you if you need to have any any clarification from businesses please please refer to those telephone numbers so the one of the other questions that was asked me ahead of time was how does how does our reopening plan compare to the metro area and you know in reviewing the Wyandotte Johnson Jackson County and Kansas City Missouri basically there's not a whole lot of difference I would say that in Wyandotte County there phase 1 is going to be more restrictive than our phase 1 and same with Kansas City Missouri Jackson County just came out with theirs yesterday so I didn't have a whole lot of time to review their phase 1 but it seems fairly similar to ours so you're not going to have consistency across the metro area but you will have you know kind of the reopening movement starting pretty much at the same time so again that's kind of that's kind of the best information that we have it at this point [Music] one other question that that was asked ahead of time was about about enforcement and you know we've we've fortunate in Johnson County to have a very coordinated law enforcement community the Johnson County police chiefs as well as the sheriff have met on this issue with our district attorney back in you know back in March actually and developed a good coordinated system that basically focuses on education and so I know there's been a lot of Education done by the police departments on the sheriff with businesses as they've had questions to date there's been no you know tickets issue there's been no you know criminal actions taken and so again we're very fortunate in Johnson County to have have businesses that are very responsible when it comes to dealing with this virus moving forward that that partnership with the with the sheriff's the sheriff the city city police chiefs and the DEA wi
l continue they remain in constant communication with these issues we run a call yesterday with the city managers we have a pretty regular meeting with them every week there are very few city managers have talked about businesses that had already already had opened this week and so there's not a lot of a lot of contentious issues that I know of at this point you know with business and enforcement so again the education will be the key and and will and they will continue to do that one other question of ahead of time was I think the lieutenant governor talked about PPE and assistance for businesses trying to open and try and get access to it we continue to struggle with that here at the county and our main focus has been PPE for a public safety for hospitals and for long-term care facilities and while we do have some supply we don't have an abundance of supply that so we will not be able to provide assistance to businesses at this point we can you know offer some some suggestions or some guidance but we will not be able to provide any supply because we're still we won't maintain our core level of supply we're not able to do that I shouldn't say sufficiently but but consistently we're still concerned with with the supply chain for our operations I think the question about the second wave I think that lieutenant governor addressed that that fairly well we will be strongest extremely close to the state as possible because what they what their plans generally dictate is what we'll have to follow and and so I was glad to hear that lieutenant governor say that the one thing that we do have in place is a very robust data collection system and again on our coronavirus website is joka org and you can click on the coronavirus tab we have daily updated data around cases hospitalizations EMS calls long-term care facilities and some other some other kind of variations of all that and so it's it's available out there now and encourage you to use it if you have any questions about it you can please let us know and we can try to help help you understand it but it's a fairly straightforward and we're pretty proud that we have that we do have we're very fortunate in Johnson County to have a very good testing program in place our new health director dr. Sami areola actually was scheduled to start on March 23rd and he got in town on March 16th from he traveled from we got him route in from Nashville Tennessee he actually started on March 17th so he was literally got into town and one evening and started working the next day so we're very fortunate to have him and his expertise here and he recognized early on the need for not only testing those that are ill but those those that aren't you know so we can start to get an understanding of where we're at as a community with the spread of the virus and so they if you look at the statistics that we have out there right now our Ark you know the based on the total number of tests until number of positives we're at about a seven percent rate and so we expect that number to be a key indicator moving forward as the phases start to open up and as we continue to do our random sampling testing we will start to you know be able to track hopefully you know quick as quickly as we can the the spread of the virus and what actions need to be taken going into the future so we're very fortunate to have you know have that in place and be kind of ahead of the curve when it comes to a lot of other local communities and then we do have contact tracing setup again I think we need more capacity for that but we do have a system in place and we fully expect to be able to enhance that again the governor talked about volunteers and some contracted workers and actually adding some additional staff going into the future we expect to be doing this for for quite a while and you know one of the things that the public health experts talk about is you know you really need to have you know a good vaccination program or to be able to establish you know through your through your community testing that you that we've got immunity built up you know in within Johnson County residents so that's going to be a while but we're starting down that path now to be able to try to track that I think those are all the questions that were kind of asking me I've had a time I think that I would stand for any additional questions and again I can't thank everybody enough for the opportunity to talk with you today and also thank you for your support and continued support as we as we start to reopen like the county and start to have people come out of there coming out of our homes on a more regular basis we're all looking forward to that so with that I stand for questions yes we are Joe thank you as a mother of four children I am anxious to get opened up again and start getting back to daily life and so one of the questions that came in I think a lot of people are one some clarification on sports and perhaps sports venues so it's organized can you go a little bit over what the requirements are on those the phases they fit in and maybe any discussion around sporting events both arena style but also the outside youth organized sport sure so the the youth sports and youth sports of venues are scheduled for a phase two opening and if you look again look at that chart really in Phase two once we open in phase two there's not much left to reopen other than the very very large type venues so we want to be extremely cautious once we start phase two because one thing that we've heard loud and clear is that nobody wants to go back you know we want to make sure and do this you know as efficiently as possible but we also want to do it do it cautiously so according to the phase dim plan from the governor's office the youth sports will start no sooner than May 18th and then the venues have guidance that they're supposed to be working on as far as reopening up for tournaments and things like that so we expect again for face to begin practicing and in tournaments to start to be scheduled and the venues can start to start to reopen it start to scheduled tournaments again well that's good news another question that came in that I think is probably one that you've had a lot of discussion and dialogue is but that is weighing the balance between public health and our economic health can you talk a little bit about that and the balance that you at the county level have tried to strike yes so thank you for that the that is the question and and honestly it's it's a policy level question that is very very difficult to answer cleanly and that's been the really high level of frustration I think amongst not only the public health medical community but also you know with the elected officials and policy makers and you know trying to strike that balance is important and you know I think the thing that our our local health officer has been looking at is not only what's happening in Johnson County to what's happening in the metro area and what's happening with the state and because especially with the level of health care that's provided in Johnson County if if folks from western Kansas to start to flock to Johnson County for hospital beds that will affect our our capacity to respond here locally so so that you know there's not a there's an exact formula for that there are there are a lot a lot of metrics that we look at and there are look being looked at every day and a lot of investigations that are happening and so far we've been fortunate to be able to look at are what I consider outbreaks and really they're limited to the long-term care facilities at this point and be able to do the investigations to contact tracing and getting that getting that turned around fairly quickly can you at all talk about the funding that Johnson County received directly from the feds and how that money will be dispersed amongst the cities and other partners in our County sure so again it's as lieutenant governor said the this money was was allocated distributed and and did not provide a lot of guidance for us and so we have not spent any of the money yet and we know it's for kovat related expenses and we know that you know generally what it can be used for but we were looking for some additional before you know additional guides to make sure we're doing this appropriately and not making any any mistakes so anyway I there's more guidance keeps kind of trickling out of out of Washington DC but we don't really have what we consider final guidance yet to try to move forward you know as far as as distributing to the cities again that's guidance that we're looking for we've kind of been told that that the the counties receive allocations across the country for the county services and that the states have a pot of funding that cities may be able to apply to you know for their kovat related expenses so again we need to work we need to figure out what what what rules are we playing in what parameters do we have because right now it's not real clear rules are supposed to play by like the state will the county be setting up a task force then to maybe work through some of the direction and how those funds will be the first and used we haven't talked about that specifically but I think again once we once we figure out what what rules we need to play by we'll figure out a way to figure out you know how we're going to what we can't utilize the funds for and what's the best way to do that it is an awful lot of money nobody's going to deny that but quite honestly we just there's just a high level of anxiety about having that much money not knowing what to do with so once we can get a little bit more comfortable with that I think I think we'll be ready to come up with a game plan can you talk a little bit about the education system both the K through 12 as well as the higher ed and how the county will assist with getting those reopened sure so we've been on we just run a call last week with all the school superintendents in the Archdiocese last week talk talking about that particular issue they were worried about summer school was their first their first kind of concern and the second was you know as a fall opening so at this point we just had some initial discussions about schools and about the K through 12 schools and hoping to get some additional guidance from from the state on that's the Board of Education specifically to help us help the schools figure you know come up with their plans on how they want to open we're certainly going to be supportive of their efforts and provide them with all the resources and information that they need to help make good decisions and again we're fortunate to have a group that works closely together anyway and so this has been just a natural natural evolution of discussions with them and so we there's been no no decisions made yet but I know that we've we will continue to meet with them and come up with what the game plan is going to be for especially for the Fall excellent can you talk a little bit about the phases again and each date that's been set Johnson County obviously has the authority to delay from the state how will that be communicated how will businesses know when we're ready to move into the phase when we meet that that date that's been set sure so I mean first and foremost we we do have to make sure and follow what state guidance is and so I know they've put a May 18th data out there I guess I would just make sure and understand that that's a not not not before May 18 and so as the lieutenant governor said they have not even and then I can start looking at data next week you know for what the state why decision will be we're doing the same thing locally and so we will start reviewing that we've been reviewing that data all along and we'll start to have the more serious discussions about it but we certainly need to follow what the state says first as far as communications goes we want to provide as much time as possible so that businesses can get ready and can start to open as soon as they can and it we all we understand there's a for some there's a fairly large ramp up time to get to get started you know bring people back make make modifications to facilities and so on your part your procedures and so on and so forth so we completely understand that and so the communication will come through through our public information office we'll do as much as we can with with media and with other other forms of putting the information out our Board of County Commissioner meetings have been very informational and then we've got our kovat website page or coronavirus website page that has a lot of information on it so we'll do the best we can to try to get get that information out as soon as we can so that businesses can plan and we certainly understand the need for them to do that well Joe thank you I think that that's a great note for us to wrap this up so we can get everybody back to their Friday's businesses love certainty so thank you for the efforts that you have done at the county and being able to help us maneuver this storm it's definitely one that we will all remember but I do believe with partnerships and communication we can continue to make our way through it and get to the other side I'm going to turn it back over to Tim again though I want to remind everybody we have recorded this session so you will be able to view it at a later time and just think again lieutenant governor for joining us I think he had to hop off but appreciate his time as well as yours Joe thank you so much thank you thank you Natalie thanks for moderating thanks Joe for being here and once again I'd like to thank the Lieutenant Governor a couple items as Natalie said we will this will be posted on our website the recording we will also have the slides on on the website as well so you will be able to see all of the information that was provided for you today one other issue Joe did bring up the issue of PPG's as many of you know we sent out a survey to all of our members to find out if you were providing or producing any PPEs and we have on our website a list of companies here in Johnson County and Olathe not only in Olathe but throughout Johnson County that are our members that are producing PPEs obviously one ppes to go to our frontline workers first our hospital and our other people that are helping to fight this but we understand and that our businesses may need BP's as well too so there is a list on our website if you go to our kovat page there's a list of companies that have stated that they will are they are selling or providing information or I'm sorry materials for businesses so please take a look at that once again we are here to provide information to you and our businesses so we'd like to thank everyone for being here today please stay safe and we are looking forward to getting back to normal and opening up our businesses as soon as we can so thank you very very much and have a wonderful day
