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6. In looking ahead to elected officials potentially reducing salaries if needed, it was said nothing can be done in the current term. Is there any legal options or strategies that could be implemented to allow for this for next year if necessary? Elected officials' wages cannot be legally adjusted during the current term. Elected officials can get paid and then make donations to the city in general or for a specified purpose, example food pantry. Employee and Operation Related Questions: 1. What are the plans for the City starting to reopen? (i.e. Governor said May 1 is target date to start reopening... what is the City's plan for slowly starting to ramp up, what precautions will be in place etc.) This is a fluid situation and we will have to react in real-time. We will take every precaution recommended by the Board of Health to keep our employees and residents safe. 2. Has the City begun planning for how it will support any requirements for Covid Testing of its employees and residents if required? We will comply with whatever is required. 3. What has been the biggest challenge this past month for those employees working from home? The biggest challenge is trying to balance home and work life, especially for employees who have children in school or elderly family members that need errands ran. As far as the ease of working from home, our IT Department has made this transition very simple and we have had little to no problems accessing what we need in order to get our jobs done. Phone calls have been forwarded and employees are fielding calls on their cellphones. The fact that we had this already in motion and in the budget helped us with this process. Have we identified any areas where we need to bring employees back? Not at this time but we are constantly evaluating departments. 4. How is the City working with its partners (i.e. Republic, others) to ensure residents are getting their full services back or will there still be delays? See below info on refuse and recycling. 5. Will the Recreation Center open when the State permits gyms to open? Once we get the green light to re -open we will take steps to begin the process as safely as possible for employees and members. 6. How has the City handled the fees related to programs that were put on hold or canceled due to the stay at home order (i.e. Recreation, Arts, etc.)? Rec Center: We have spent that last month contacting each and every patron who were in a program or had a rental that was cancelled. We gave them the option of a credit for future use, a refund check generated by finance or a refund to the credit card used if possible. The following programs were cancelled: Learn to skate winter session 2, Learn to swim winter session 2, tennis lessons winter session 2, spring volleyball, gymnastics winter session 2, ice show costumes, spring break camp, rink rentals, rink/pool/gymnastics birthday parties, pool rentals, permanent court time tennis rentals. As of yesterday the lacrosse season has been cancelled so we will now refund those participants as well. We have had two requests to refund summer camp fees — summer camp is not until June and has not yet been cancelled. We have a short window to recover Spring learn to swim, but that is seeming unlikely.