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The city of La Crosse 2020 vision podcasts were set up to talk about things the future. However, in a time of crisis. In the time of the coalbed 19 needed to talk about was going on around us today. Mayor Tim Kabat is our guest and Mayor wherein unprecedented times now, with the coveted 19 and basically the shutdown of not only it out neighborhood cities states that the country is basically shut down Mayor Raga little hello I know that you know more than 100 years ago Spanish influenza back in 1918 and all that it was probably somewhat of a similar situation, but there's not a lot of us alive back then. So for all of us. It really is never experienced before, and I am one of the things I'm really impressed with our earlier larger area community is that people are taking seriously and trying to do the right thing by staying home and meeting interaction, and only making essential travel. So I think we all stay strong and keep itself will be able to get back to normal a little bit quicker Mayor what is the city of La Crosse doing in order to help the citizens. The few areas imagine our critical services email the emergency response and law enforcement to our streets and things like water and sewer service are our garbage pickup and recycling transit service. You know those things are are staying pretty much as it is been a few changes to those services. But for the most part, those are operating in the memory load and those are critical services that the community relies on having been drinking water in and waste disposal on all hats on board's efforts really continue to meet me make some changes to how staff can provide those services. So you been really gotten split shifts and she to schedule so that we don't have all of our team operating in the same place at the same time. Their goal is spread them out and have some folks that are on call versus being not even the officer in field so we made those changes but I think the most part that's not something that you would notice that your turn on your tap water are you know your your weekly garbage pick up whatever goes again are gone as planned, then the other working on the other efforts that we've done the will treating this obviously is a public health emergencies gone to our emergency operations center in a different structure for how the cities organize our fire chief and police chief fire are emergency managers in the brilliant stepped up to take the lead and so we do have a group that still working on our the operation but we've added no folks, now that work on logistics of trying to find in secure that personal protective equipment and other supplies and things that we can help with our our healthcare providers to secure whether that's again master gloves or grounds or whatever the case may be, hand sanitizers in those types of things so we really focused on trying to balance you know keeping our our stirrup services going and also just making sure that our public and our employees are very limited exposure and keeping them safe. Mayor Tim Kabat and I talking about the coalbed 19 and Mary surprised with the size of our community and how we've done better than other communities our size at stopping the spread and that having a slower amount of growth of people that have the coalbed 19 virus have been very impressed with that and I don't know that it really surprised, but I do feel like we we have lot of people taking very seriously and trying to follow the governor secret homeowner and people staying home keeping those social distancing good hygiene practices when they are having to go out. So I I'm hopeful that we can keep this momentum going to turn talk today I believe are 26 cases in nonsexual not had any guests here La Crosse County and then think just about anybody that has been a concern case has recovery so you want to keep that going. Again, it's really because the head of the other places around the country known around the world have experienced this people stay at home and avoid crowds and practice social distancing another you guys guys out there don't wear a mask Republican thing people are arguing that an I think that's what I'm seeing good results here in La Crosse County that we do have a lot of folks that are still on the to do this thing whether that's essential worker travel for groceries or the like… Doing good here and I hope we can keep it up I hope will start to see those numbers now actually start to go down at some point, Mayor one of the big questions I think a lot of people have is there's a lot of small businesses that are based in La Crosse and that are run out of homes and out of some of the great spaces that we have here La Crosse. What is the city of La Crosse doing to help out those small businesses we knew early on, especially when all the governor's order to close the bars and restaurants movement there will be a lot of hardship from a lot of people hurting big time as you said down that one of the things in La Crosse just such a special place in the amount of food that we have that are here owned locally that people in our community are loners, and so we knew that this would be some very dire times for walls owners in them policy for the employees. So we started to reach out, you know, we have one great staff in our our planning departments. They started reaching out to businesses going on trying to understand the impacts and what things the city could do to help out. So we have put together a grant program will not not a large amount of money but hopefully enough funding to get people can buy them some time and get them over the hump until larger efforts from the federal government and state government kicking button got out to a maximum of $25,000 business grant funding to help people out so that the city Council that last week and I think a big challenge is just going to be about the number of businesses that we already heard from ethically last column for more than 100 businesses here La Crosse that are interested in that assistance. And so will have to see how far dollars can go. That's one thing that again. We really wanted to show our business community that the city of La Crosse. Now scanning them as much as we possibly can in helping Naaman and employees follow the links for information are on the city's website at La Crosse duck will want people more information or questions or whatever they can glory. Men between Andrea and Jason are now calling parent or their tongue people trying to work with folks on that conducting similar challenges. The SBA loan almost thinking very bureaucratic program really just trying to make it when I can oversimplify it to make it just very cold so that there's not a lot of hoops to jump through Mayor Tim Kabat you have any words of encouragement for the community as a whole. Staying home being really diligent and strong even myself. I know where times and I recall going just a little stir crazy inside, but it is for the larger group because more people involved in them mostly for healthy and I find there are people out there that the signal think David exposed this and catch this virus with the difficult for them so you want to stay strong and really almost together as a community and encourage our residents to continue. Again, I just been so impressed and thankful that people are taking this very seriously and when there are absolute vessel. I think I wish everybody had their healthy and safe and I continued to practice the social distancing in good hygiene will get through this together.