Recommendation to request City Manager to work with the Department of Financial Management and the Economic Development Department to explore the feasibility of deploying tools and resources necessary to ensure retail businesses and restaurants can successfully and safely reopen.
Q Thank you. We're going to do item 21, another COVID related item. Communication from Councilmember Richardson Council and Zendaya's Councilwoman Mango Council Member Urunga Recommendation to request City Manager to explore the feasibility of deploying tools and resources necessary to ensure retail businesses and restaurants can successfully and safely reopen. I have a motion by Councilmember Richardson and a second councilwoman, and Bay has concerned Richardson. Sure, I'll be brief. The reopening of our economy. The economy is coming in pretty, pretty quickly. A number of our businesses, although they are excited about opening there, there has been a number of things that folks are uncomfortable with. And we need to add the tools and resources to make sure that people have a plan, resources to open safely. That means technical assistance on how to reach some of the standards put out. In terms of occupancy. It means offering certain tools like online digital queuing systems to make sure that we reduce the waiting and barbershops and things like that. So a number of examples are outlined in the motion. I've talked to this with city staff. I think we can do more to make sure that our businesses are prepared to reopen safely in order to limit the impact and the spread of COVID 19. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Van De has. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson, for this item and very supportive of the item. Councilman on Mango. Thank you. I also am very supportive of the item. I think it's really important that we use all methods possible to help businesses get back open so that our residents can resume their jobs so that they have a solid income. And I would just encourage us to continue to look at all options. Thank you. With that roll call vote, please. District one. I district to. I. District three. I. District four. All right. District five. I. District six. District seven. District eight. All right. District nine. Hi. Ocean. Thank you. We still have four more Kogan items, so we'll try to get through these expeditiously. Item six the small business loan program. Madam Court. Madam Clerk.