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08/12/2021 Vaccinate or Test Policies and Logistics

Betsy, City of Burbank

Hi all, our Council directed staff on Tuesday evening to create a policy requiring that employees either get vaccinated or test regularly. We are trying to think through logistics... we have about 400 employees who we will need to test weekly, with many multiple locations and several different schedules involved (hopefully this number will go down as employees choose to get vaccinated rather than submit to weekly testing). We know it needs to be on City time and on the City's dime but are concerned about the time away from performing job duties and don't want to incur the OT costs to do the testing outside of employees' schedules. We are thinking some combination of mobile testing at centralized City facilities and self-test kits that could be used for more remote sites (although I suspect there will concerns from supervisors about overseeing an employee administering a self-test). Just curious if other cities are dealing with this and what your logistical plans are. Thanks!
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Jena

08/17/2021 12:41:11 PM

We have not received this directive but the City is trying to prepare ourselves for that issue in our Fire Department.  Did your Fire Department get authorized to conduct testing?  I thought one of our Cities in ACCEL did have their Fire Department conducting testing.  Maybe Anaheim?

Our Fire Department asked me yesterday to join them for a meeting this afternoon regarding setting up our fire department to test internal staff.  I will report back once I have more information.

In the interim, hoping one of our colleagues can assist re how they may be conducting testing internally.  Thank you all in advance.