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Community Cabin: Rentals have been refunded. Any vendor fees collected for cancelled events have been refunded. 7. What if anything can/is the City do(ing) to help residents and businesses as they start to go back to work/reopen. The city has posted small business resources on the website and on social media; we have kept open lines with the Chamber of Commerce and Great Northern Mall. Business resources are included in the Mayor's April and May e -newsletters. 8. Has there been any change to the number of ambulance runs experienced as many people have reduced their willingness to go to hospitals? Yes, for the time period of 3/22 to 4/20, 2019 EMS runs 261 and 2020 EMS runs 243. 9. As people have been sheltering at home, some disputes among residents regarding property maintenance and other issues have arisen. With reduced staffing, what is the capacity for handling complaints and what time -line should be expected? Ward 1 property maintenance sweeps have been suspended, and property maintenance inspectors are responding to complaint driven issues that may pose a safety threat. Citations will be issued as a last resort. We are working with people using gentle reminders and letters if need be. Our inspectors are out with reduced hours starting commercial property maintenance inspections. However, no citations will be issued. A letter will be given to the commercial owner highlighting violations that they should be aware of. They will be put on notice that we will follow up in October 2020 depending on the pandemic situation, and may be issued a citation or given an extension until 2021. Bulk & Yard Waste Questions: 1. What is the timeline for full restoration of service? All services have been restored as of Monday April 20tH 2. Will there be any changes to the May bulk pick-up? No, business as usual on May 7th. 3. The three location drop offs were not nearly adequate and were not served regularly. The three locations should have been adequate if residents would have followed normal standards. Had we known people were going to throw anything and everything into the dumpsters, we would have had additional dumpsters located at the rec center. All the cities in the area that made arrangements for these dumpsters suffered the same issues. Residents, non-residents and contractors were throwing bulk that would not have been picked up during normal bulk pick-up. What was Republic's Response? We were not happy with the response but were told they were working as quickly as possible to mitigate the overflow. 4. Why did other cities get restored first? Everyone got restored at the same time, our yard waste pick-up dates are later in the week (Thursday) and our bulk date unfortunately was right after the suspension and now is three weeks out before May 7tH 5. Since we were treated poorly with respect to other communities, is Republic prepared to compensate for the difference? Because of this unforeseen issue, I think all cities were treated equally "poorly". It appears that pressure and threatening to sue Republic is what got the job done The reminder that we had a