by Kip Dellinger

What is necessary to start the process rolling is the appointment of an Emergency Director from outside the current City staff who will began to address a meaningful return to normal within the federal recommendations and forthcoming State guidance -- not to impose additional rules and requirements on City residents and businesses.

This will entail recommending difficult decisions and perhaps "bucking" some or all council members when doing so. It will certainly require the skills of someone capable of crisis management in the fiscal arena.

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