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City Council Briefing
3/ 17/2020
CURRENT SITUATION
■ Worldwide: 190K cases; 7,500 deaths; 80K recovered
■ United States: 4,226 cases; 75 deaths
■ Texas: 64 cases; I death
■ Dallas County: 24
■ Tarrant County: 6
■ Collin County: 8
■ Denton County: I
NATIONAL AND STATE RESPONSE
■ U.S. Declaration of National Emergency (Stafford Act,
Emergency Declaration)
■ Texas State of Emergency for all counties
■ Tarrant County Declaration of Local Disaster
■ Tarrant County Public Health Recommendations
■ City of Grapevine Declaration of Local Disaster
TARRANT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
RECOMMENDATIONS (3/ 16)
■ Social Distancing
■ Reduction in the occupancy limits of local businesses, reducing current
allowed occupancy by 50%, or no more than 125 individuals,
whichever is less.
■ Restaurants, bars, event centers, gyms, hotel restaurants, retail stores,
theatres, convenience stores, public buildings, plazas, churches, and
shopping malls (excluding grocery stores and airports)
TARRANT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
RECOMMENDATIONS (3/ 16)
■ Recommendations for businesses and bars
■ Strongly encourage take-out and curbside pick-up
■ Remove every other chair at the bar to implement an adequate
distance
■ If continuing sit-down dining, seat the customers at every other table
in a checkerboard pattern
■ Have your staff keep count of the customers at each table to ensure
an accurate count
CITY OF GRAPEVINE ACTIONS
■ CLOSED: ■ CANCELED:
■ Grapevine Public Library (drive through ■ Municipal Court Hearings
open) ■ CVB - Special event train excursions -
■ The REC of Grapevine (this includes the "Kiss Me I'm Irish" train
■ All city organized/sponsored youth sports event and both Jazz Wine Train events)
are suspended ■ Rental Facilities - All parks and recreation
■ Community Outreach Center (and programs) facility and pavilion rentals are canceled
■
■ Municipal Golf Course Non-essential advisory boards and
commissions
■ Museums
■ Convention Center
■ Palace Theater
CITY OF GRAPEVINE ACTIONS
■ Emergency Operations Center — Increased Readiness
■ Daily Directors briefing
■ Coordination with Tarrant County and Texas Department of State Health Services
■ Modified 911 Call-take questions
■ Planning first-responder exposures
■ Grapevine Cares call-center and public information webpage
WORKPLACE MITIGATION
■ Increased facility cleaning cycles
■ Adjusted shifts to limit the number of employees
■ Isolated critical facilities
■ Reducing exposures to employees
■ Increased distance between interactions
■ Evaluating teleworking
■ Eliminated employee travel