Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton Joins Community Leaders For Weekly Press Call

(BLOOMINGTON) – Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton joins other community leaders in a weekly Zoom conference call today from 1:15 to 2 p.m. (E.D.T.) to share the most recent developments in the coordinated local effort to mitigate and manage the COVID-19 crisis and present an opportunity for media representatives to ask questions.  

Joining Mayor Hamilton on today’s call will be Indiana University Assistant Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and IUB COVID Response Unit (CRU) Lead Kirk White, Monroe County Commissioners President Julie Thomas, IU Health Program Director for Community Relations & Outreach Shawna Girgis, Monroe County Health Department Administrator Penny Caudill, and Monroe County Emergency Management Director Allison Moore.  

Press briefings from the governmental and institutional bodies coordinating the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic will continue weekly on Fridays from 1:15 to 2 p.m. 

Barring technical difficulties, the conference will be a live streamed at the City of Bloomington Facebook page, where listeners may pose questions that may be relayed to the panelists if time allows.

Each week’s call is archived there and at the City’s website (under “COVID-19 Press Conferences”) for future reference. Additionally, the calls are streamed and archived at CATS.