05-13-20 Town Board Town Managers Post Pandemic Plan
TOWN BOARD/DEPARTMENT MANAGERS MEETING
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 1:00 PM
Activities Center/Zoom
Discussion of Town Post Pandemic Plan
o Reasons for this meeting:
Share good ideas
Arrive at common agreements
Create a safe working environment for you and our
employees while helping to progress the Town towards
safely serving our residents’ needs
(See attached discussion list)
742 Bay Road
Queensbury, NY 12804
Phone (518) 761-8229 http://www.queensbury.net
Discussion of Town Post Pandemic Plan
Below are some thoughts on the matter; they are meant to encourage discussion of what appropriate actions
we should consider developing and adopting to better protect our employees, customers, vendors, public and
visitors’ health and safety:
Should we step up our efforts to:
Continue to conduct visitor health screening
Evaluate employee health screening
Offer employee training on how to reduce risk
Provide signage guidance
Examples: Masks a Must, Wash Hands, and Avoid Touching Face.
Evaluate activities that place employees, visitors, residents at risk (office, field, travel, etc.)
Implement Best Protection Practices that reduce risk
Enable and promote the use remote meetings
Assure compliance with state, federal and local prescriptions
Use signage and media to better communicate that employees, customers, vendors, public and visitors
use mail, email and phone –and, when possible, avoid direct visitations when possible
Assure our needs inventory are met - sanitizer, sanitizer wipes, facemasks, gloves, other
Continue and improve our building and object decontamination program
Other thoughts:
What building use and restrictions should we implement
Where should we give extra concern should be given to high-risk areas, like bathrooms and public
interface areas, that have a lot of high touch surfaces (like door handles, stall doors, counter tops,
shared surfaces and shared items like pens) are high risk transfer environments.
Any environment that is enclosed, with poor circulation and high density of people, spells trouble. How
do we avoid those environments?
Place pexiglass barriers at locations where employees and visitors must Interface: Assessor, PARKS &
Recreation, Building & Codes, Planning/Zoning and Security.
As we move around our communities more freely and be in contact with more people in more places
more regularly, the risks to ourselves, our family and fellow employees are significant
Other notes:
One report stated that 44% of all infections – and the majority of community-acquired transmission –
occur from people without any symptoms (asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people).
Coughing, sneezing and talking increase the risk of exposure. Adoption of behaviors, restrictions and
PPE that would reduce exposure.
o Handwashing, wear appropriate PPE, proper disposal of PPEs
o PPE protocol and availability
o Maintain social distancing
o Facemasks mandatory when social distancing in not likely to be maintained
How can we best deal with potential budget impacts?
We expect incoming revenues, sales tax and others, to be below last year’s.
As such, please be cognizant of your spending; seek cost reductions through postponement of the
purchasing of non-essential items and hiring and the use of other efficiencies.