Anonymous
04/24/2020 16:01
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.
Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.
I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.
On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.
Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.
HA! This is the same with the Ward 3 Family Shelter. Shared bathrooms and common dining areas with no kitchen in the building. All food has to be delivered from off site and kept in a warming kitchen and served in a common dining room. Nobody really has any idea why they thought it would be a great idea to walk into a hallway in the middle of the night to use a shared bathroom (between rooms).
Ward 3 Family Shelter was supposed to happen a month ago. Apparently now it is opening any day...
Anonymous
04/24/2020 15:52
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.
Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.
I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.
On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.
Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 15:19
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed. Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty. And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?
The money part does not bother me. Recovering from this pandemic is going to cost the city money. At the end of the day money will be located and eventually the Feds will cough up. They always do.
The issue here is still how they are run. Apparently the Mayor has opted for her favorite form of leadership which is contracting out with no follow up by the city. That is not the appropriate way to run a quarantine center.
At this point, as the Mayor is not talking, we almost need the original news breaker through NBC to go and interview all of the hotels to get to the bottom of this. What is the relationship with DC Department of Health and the Quarantine sites? What are the mechanics of quarantine? How does one get released from quarantine? For the 14 days that the person is at quarantine, what other social services are made available to them? For each of these locations what was the method of neighborhood notification?
The mayor may not need to answer to Ward 3. But if she has to furlough or lay off city employees, she will have a lot of Wards 5, 6, 7, 8 residents to answers to. That $10,000,000 could have been better spent considering the convention center option.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 15:11
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
Who is the actual owner-operator of the Days Inn in Van Ness? Most hotels like this are franchises.
I wonder if they have contributed to the campaigns or PACs of the mayor.
That particular Days Inn location is run by Coakley and Williams Hotel Management https://www.cwhotels.com/
It is a firm that buys hotels that are both part of chains as well as independent hotels. They also operate the Holiday Inn Washington Central on Rhode Island Ave.
I wonder if they have contributed to the campaigns or PACs of the mayor.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 15:11
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
Who is the actual owner-operator of the Days Inn in Van Ness? Most hotels like this are franchises.
I wonder if they have contributed to the campaigns or PACs of the mayor.
That particular Days Inn location is run by Coakley and Williams Hotel Management https://www.cwhotels.com/
It is a firm that buys hotels that are both part of chains as well as independent hotels. They also operate the Holiday Inn Washington Central on Rhode Island Ave.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 14:31
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
Who is the actual owner-operator of the Days Inn in Van Ness? Most hotels like this are franchises.
That particular Days Inn location is run by Coakley and Williams Hotel Management https://www.cwhotels.com/
It is a firm that buys hotels that are both part of chains as well as independent hotels. They also operate the Holiday Inn Washington Central on Rhode Island Ave.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 14:22
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed. Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty. And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?
Don't forget about the security costs. And possibly meals.
I happened to drop some things at the VanNess Zips yesterday (still open) and drove by the Days Inn. Nothing unusual but I did notice a uniformed security guard.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 13:38
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
Who is the actual owner-operator of the Days Inn in Van Ness? Most hotels like this are franchises.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 11:41
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 11:15
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat. It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 09:25
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Interestingly, three of the hotels are in the same location:
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Ivy City Hotel
Hotel Arboretum
Fairfield Inn
These hotels are all on the same block.
Only Capitol Skyline and Days Inn are in different areas. All hotels located within three wards.
Anonymous
04/24/2020 09:20
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed. Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty. And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?
The money part does not bother me. Recovering from this pandemic is going to cost the city money. At the end of the day money will be located and eventually the Feds will cough up. They always do.
The issue here is still how they are run. Apparently the Mayor has opted for her favorite form of leadership which is contracting out with no follow up by the city. That is not the appropriate way to run a quarantine center.
At this point, as the Mayor is not talking, we almost need the original news breaker through NBC to go and interview all of the hotels to get to the bottom of this. What is the relationship with DC Department of Health and the Quarantine sites? What are the mechanics of quarantine? How does one get released from quarantine? For the 14 days that the person is at quarantine, what other social services are made available to them? For each of these locations what was the method of neighborhood notification?
Anonymous
04/24/2020 09:01
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed. Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty. And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?
Because of racial disrespect and discrimination, of course...
Anonymous
04/24/2020 08:38
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
Anonymous wrote:I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
Times five locations and DC is burning through almost $10,000,000 every 90 days on this program, which almost certainly will be renewed. Meanwhile, the convention center, at no cost, sits empty. And the mayor wonders why Congress didn’t send us more money?
Anonymous
04/24/2020 07:39
Subject: Dumpsters overflow with trash, discarded PPE at DC quarantine site On Connecticut Ave
I don't have an issue with maintaining quarantine sites. I have an issue with how these sites were apparently operated and disclosed. But the math seems off on the DCist story.
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500
If DC is paying the Days Inn $125 a night for 150 room (they probably are having to pay for additional space for admin and cleaning etc, but we are just going for easy math here)
$125 X 150 rooms = $18,750 a night
90 day contracts at a time
$18,750 X 90 days = $1,687,500