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Committee to consider dissolving city employee furloughs

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record The city of Roswell’s Finance Committee will consider recommending dissolving the remaining city employee furlough days when it meets this week. The meeting will be at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Roswell Convention & Civic Center, 912 N. Main St. Due to public health orders, the public is encouraged to participate electronically. From a computer, tablet or smartphone, the meeting can be accessed at https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/822397005, or by calling 669-224-3412 and using access code 822-397-005. The meeting will also be livestreamed on the city’s YouTube channel. The city made $31 million in expense cuts when it planned its fiscal year 2021 budget, expecting the coronavirus pandemic would cause a sharp drop in gross receipts taxes. Those cuts included a 10-day furlough for all city employees, spread out over the fiscal year.

City expects to learn effect of American Airlines funding soon

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record American Airlines is due to receive an infusion of additional federal funding after President Donald Trump signed the second major COVID-19 relief aid package on Sunday night, but what that will mean for Roswell passenger air service is not known yet. “I anticipate that we will be having a conversation with them in January, early January,” said Mayor Dennis Kintigh. Within 10 days of the signing of the new legislation House Resolution 133 American Airlines and other air carriers will receive $15 billion in grants, with at least 60% of the money to be used for payroll and related costs, what is known as the Payroll Support Program or PSP. Another $1 billion in grants has been allocated for air service contractors serving airlines.

LANL Community Conversation Highlights COVID, Economy

LANL Community Conversation Highlights COVID, Economy bjgordon@ladailypost.com The focus was primarily on the economy at Tuesday’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Conversation via Zoom. Laboratory Director Thom Mason opened with an update on the Lab’s response to COVID-19. “We had to be very adaptable in our response to COVID-19,” Mason said. “The Lab is considered an essential service. Seventy percent of our staff is working remotely.” Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes The Lab is testing personnel working onsite and other employees with concerns they might be infected, Mason said. Although the Lab is on the same trajectory as the surrounding area, in which cases increased over the past month, Mason said that recently, the Lab has seen “a tapering of growth.”

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