Community Message from Mayor Kling

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BOARD POSITIONS OPEN!

A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR KLING

Click below to watch a short video message from Mayor Kling or click here to read comments.

Our annual survey is now open! We'd love to hear your feedback by the end of February 2021.

Your voice matters!

2020 TIME CAPSULE

The City of Nampa has decided to create a time capsule to commemorate the unforgettable year of 2020. Mayor Kling invites the community to submit a one-page letter recording their experience in 2020 by the end of January 2021. For questions or to make suggestions, please email mayor@cityofnampa.us or call (208) 468-5401. Letters can be mailed to: Office of the Mayor, 411 3rd Street South, Nampa ID 83651.

LOCAL COVID-19 VACCINE INFORMATION

As more information on the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, we will be sharing it with our community. Currently, the State of Idaho's Vaccine Advisory Committee is working hard to provide vaccines across the state. They have published an estimated timeline below and continue to update FAQs on their website.

Learn the latest on Idaho's COVID-19 vaccine effortscoronavirus.idaho.gov

FROM THE FRONTLINE

SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER NAMPA

Travis Leach, President

Saint Alphonus has been busy vaccinating our front line healthcare workers. I am excited that we are able to get this protection in place for the safety of our healthcare workers who have put themselves in harms way ever since the pandemic emerged. The next critical step is to get those at high risk that are residents in care facilities vaccinated. I am looking forward to the availability of the vaccine to work to vaccinate our high risk community members and eventually everyone. There is light at the end of the tunnel but we must stay vigilant in protecting one another in the meantime by wearing face coverings and physical distancing.

SAINT ALPHONSUS DASHBOARD

ST. LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM

Joan Agee, DNP, RN FACHE, CNOR

Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer

St. Luke's Health System

I am pleased to report that St. Luke’s Nampa has seen a decrease in the number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 being admitted to the hospital. I am cautiously optimistic, however, and hope that we will not see a spike in the number of cases following the holiday gatherings.

The St. Luke’s Health System has been administering the new Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to its employees and healthcare providers. I am hopeful that we will soon see the end of this pandemic.

I would like to thank our community for their ongoing support of our healthcare workers and for following the established recommendations of hand hygiene, social distancing and wearing masks to stop the spread of the disease.

ST. LUKE'S DASHBOARD

CITY OF NAMPA OFFICES CONTINUE

REMOTE SERVICES TO COMMUNITY

The City of Nampa plans to continue serving our community remotely through

the end of January 2021 and then reevaluate the next steps at that time.

We will keep providing updates as they become available.

We are happy to announce the City of Nampa’s Clerk’s office will once again accept passport applications beginning January 11, 2021 by appointment only.

To schedule a passport appointment, please click here.

Nampa City Council Meetings to begin at 5:30pm starting January 19, 2021

Beginning Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Nampa City Council meetings will begin one-half hour earlier at 5:30 p.m. and public hearings will begin at 6:30 p.m. Nampa City Council meetings are held the first and third Monday of each month at Nampa City Hall, located at 411 3rd Street South. If the Monday meeting falls on a holiday, the meeting is moved to the following day.

In recent years, many council meetings lasted past 10 p.m., with some even later. Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling proposed the earlier start time to accommodate residents and businesses participating in public hearings and awaiting council decisions.

Mayor Kling said, “We want to ensure council meetings are accessible, transparent and as accommodating as possible. Beginning our meeting and public hearings one-half hour earlier is a small way of showing the taxpayers we serve that we appreciate and respect their time.”

Council agendas are published three business days ahead of the meeting and can be found at https://cityofnampa.us/agendacenter. Council meetings are available to watch “live or later” at https://livestream.com/cityofnampa. To learn more about virtual participation options for public hearings, visit https://cityofnampa.us/1334/Virtual-Public-Hearing-Instructions.

WE ARE NAMPA

Here are a few feel-good stories from this week in case you missed it...

So much happened in 2020! We attempted to highlight some of the many wonderful things that happened amidst the challenges of 2020 in a short video. Because we don't say it enough, thank you to the amazing staff at the City of Nampa who are working hard for our community. Thank you also to the many wonderful people, organizations and businesses in our community who made us #NampaProud as we collaborated together to strengthen our community during this pandemic.

THANK YOU,

SERVICE WORKERS!

We're contining our third month of #ThankYouThursday by showing gratitude to various groups within our community. Each Thursday in January, we're taking a moment to share appreciation for service workers with #thankyouthursday on social media!

#thankyouthursday