2009 FRONTENAC FESTIVAL

NOTIFICATION

Swine Flu Update

Background:

For years, we have been warned that mass casualties can result from tornadoes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and a pandemic involving a new influenza.  Historically, we know that many natives in the New World died when Europeans first landed here and indigenous populations had no immunity to imported diseases. Similarly, the makeup of the influenza virus can change and attack humans anywhere at any time. In typical flues, humans have already built up some immunities and medical professionals have some time to analyze slight changes and grow vaccines that can be given to humans as part of the annual flu shot effort.  Vaccines take months to develop. And once a new flu like the swine flu is discovered humans have fewer natural immunities. Therefore, some new flues can inflict significant harm before a vaccine is available. Prevention then becomes a key to stopping the flu.

Strategies for Preventing the Spread of the Flu:

There are many things that businesses and families can do to make a pandemic event less disruptive to you. All it takes is a little advance planning.

For yourself and your family and friends:

1. Learn to recognize the symptoms of the flu. Contact your physician early if you see these symptoms.
2. The Ready in 3 program provides a simple guide to families that encourages: A plan, a kit, and listening to information. It can be read at http://www.dhss.mo.gov/Ready_in_3/.
3. Determine what you would do if you have children, and schools and daycares close in your area.
4. Use proper hygiene, by washing hands frequently, coughing into your shoulder or elbow, and wash frequently-used objects often (such as remote controls, keyboards, phones, table surfaces) with alcohol-based cleaners (any store bought cleaner should work).
5. Decide if you want to buy masks or gloves to use as protection against getting the flu. Consider getting a prescription for Tamiflu or Relenza for every member of your family.
6. Inquire of your employer if Work from Home or Telework is available, or if they will implement other social distancing techniques.

Employers should consider the following:

1. Make sure your employees are educated about pandemics and that their families are informed about the above steps.
2. If your employees family is panicked or feels at risk, the employee will not come into work. If you have a pandemic plan, review it with senior management and run an exercise this week if possible. Make it clear who is the lead official for enforcing the plan. (See the City of Clayton plan on the League website below).
3. If you don't have a pandemic-specific plan, obviously you want to create one this week. Go to http://www.PandemicPrep.Org or www.PandemicPrep.Org and click on the Resource Guide, which has useful templates and checklists that will give you a head start on creating a pandemic plan.
4. In your plan, consider how you will continue your critical functions with 30-40% less staff than you have now. For example, can police continue to patrol without the necessity to come into the police station and thereby avoid more exposure to the flu? How can sleeping arrangements for fire/paramedic staff be arranged to reduce the spread of the flu? Can recreation programs be curtailed and healthy staff assist with other functions? Can public safety officers curtail non-essential activities if there is a staff shortage? If so, plan now to list the services that must continue and those that can be curtailed.
5. What will you do if all schools and daycares in the area are closed? How many of your staff will be impacted? What if some should close in order to halt the spread of disease, but refuse to?
6. Encourage sick employees to stay home. Try to avoid one sick person spreading the disease to an entire department or more. Make sure you have a policy for those with no sick leave pay available but who may be contagious and want to come to work.
7. Begin to learn who has control over major decisions in your community, such as closing schools, restricting group gatherings, enforcing quarantines.

There is much more to consider in building a complete Pandemic Plan. Please check the Resource Guide at http://www.PandemicPrep.Org for more suggestions.

The Municipal League hosted a seminar last year for municipalities and posted information at the top of our website that will help with municipal plans. Please go to http://www.stlmuni.org for guidelines and examples.

You may also benefit from visiting the Missouri State Health and Human Services Website, which also has a link to the federal; CDC: www.dhss.mo.gov/BT_Response/_SwineFlu09.html.

St. Louis County Health Department has a traditional link to diseases and will be posting more information on its site soon. For now, basic information on pandemic illnesses and flues is available at http://www.stlouisco.com/doh/citizen_services.html.

At the time of this writing, Missouri is not experiencing many cases of the Swine flu. Overreacting is not necessary. But good planning would be prudent now and may well serve your municipality soon, or in the future should a calamity occur.

STORMWATER INFORMATION

Listed below are several links to help you identify if your stormwater problem is included on the master plan, and when a project is planned for your area. If you are not listed on the plan, please print out and submit a questionnaire. If you would like to apply for the City’s stormwater grant fund to accelerate your project, a grant application is attached under “Stormwater Grant Application”. Follow the links below to see the schedule for your project: 

• Look up your address (or neighbors) on “Street Address Locator”

• On your Street Address Locator is a figure number such as “6-2”

• Go to your figure number listed on the home page and click it

• Each figure will have several specific problem types. Following the figure are cost estimates for each project on the drawing. Find the cost estimate for your project and note the Problem Type such as Overland Flow or Overland Flow Structural Flooding, in the Project Name. 

• Once you have identified your figure number AND problem type, go to “Stormwater Dates” to find out when your project is scheduled

If you have questions about the stormwater grant, contact City Hall at 994-3200.  To request a copy of your conceptual plan, e-mail scooper@cityoffrontenac.org.

Stormwater Questionnaire

Stormwater Grant Application

Stormwater Dates

Street Address Locator

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[ Jul 3, 2009, 8:00 AM ]
City Hall Closed

Independence Day

[ Jul 8, 2009, 7:00 PM ]
Public Works Commission

Monthly Meeting

[ Jul 21, 2009, 7:00 PM ]
Board of Aldermen

Monthly Meeting

[ Jul 22, 2009, 7:00 PM ]
Subdivision Meeting

Outer Ladue Subdivision Association Meeting

[ Jul 28, 2009, 7:00 PM ]
Planning & Zoning Commission

Monthly Meeting

[ Aug 11, 2009, 7:00 PM ]
Ways & Means Committee

Monthly Meeting