On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:16 PM Kevin Dwyer <kevidwyer@gmail.com> wrote:
____________________________________Look folks, is your activity that important? I understand that you do good, but you can do better, we all can, by slowing things down. Is your shop's services more important than health care workers, fire fighters or other first responders? I don't think so. Hospitals in infected areas are being overwhelmed. There aren't enough ventilators. The slower this moves, the more people that will survive it.Do everything you can to minimize people getting together. Send your mechanics home with a pile of bikes, tools and workbench. Build an outside repair stand. Only allow one (uninfected) worker in the store at a time. Throw a pile of tubes, cables and chains by the door.Do it for your community. Be proactive, there is little penalty for getting it wrong in that direction and these measures work way better "before" as opposed to "during" (which is (nearly) where we are now in many places).On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:04 PM peter@BikeClarkCounty.org <peter@bikeclarkcounty.org> wrote:We’re monitoring based upon our local state and city guidelines. Also, monitoring our local school district (whether to shut down our programs which will gear up in a month).____________________________________We have spray bottles with 5:1 water bleach recommend ratio to clean our community benches, tools, and stands between users. Auto hand san dispensor at door and every work bench.Options to close shop to deep clean, or only have one staff per day work on bikes, or lay off staff to collect unemployment, etc are being reviewed.As Seattle hit hard I’m sure Portland/Vancouver metro is pending..We just posted social media & newsletter as follows:At Bike Clark County, health is a big part of our mission. In regards to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are continuing to monitor information put out by Washington State Health Department, and the Vancouver School District. We are a community use space, and want to be sure all of our volunteers and employees do their best to stay healthy. At this time, we have decided to proceed with volunteer night as scheduled. Educational programs will also take place as scheduled, following the Vancouver School District's lead. As information changes, this may also change.
We wanted to check in with you to ensure that everyone follows best practices to help stem the spread of this pandemic.
- Please stay home if you are sick.
- All benches and tools regularly wiped down with bleach.
- Wash your hands with soap and water regularly
- We suggest wearing surgical gloves provided by the shop to help remind you not to touch your face.
- Practice social distancing while in the shop
- If you are in an at risk group, please stay home. We want to enjoy your company for years to come.
Peter Van TilburgExecutive Director, Board VPBike Clark CountyCommunity Bike Shop:1604 Main St., Vancouver, WA. 98660Wed-Sat 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-4pmc. 503.572.9894Bike Clark County is equipping, empowering, and connecting youth to our community.
On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Bob Giordano <mist@strans.org> wrote:
Hi,
We're monitoring the situation like many
of you,
We're doing the small things like keeping
clean; for now using extra paper towels
instead of old, clean t-shirt for communal
hand drying; considering the wipe down of
tools, etc
Also talking about closing for a couple
weeks, or whatever appropriate time length.
And we can use that time to do deep cleaning,
bike building, organizing, and so on.
Maybe keeping some fix-it stations open?
...wanted to see what others are thinking?
Thanks,
Bob Giordano, Free Cycles Missoula
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