We greatly appreciate the willingness of our staff to protect co-workers and tribal members. In order to ensure we are doing our part in protecting against community spread, our essential employees and Executive Committee members began taking mandatory COVID tests this morning. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe reverted back to Phase 1 of our Recovery Plan Monday July 27. JAST Revert back to Phase 1 and mandatory testing If possible, we recommend placing your orders online and utilizing curbside pick-up. As you are shopping for back to school essentials, please remember to follow CDC guidelines while in retail stores. As we are coming into this weekend, many will be preparing to go back to school. We will then make the determination as to whether to move back into Phase 2 or prolong Phase 1. Our Executive Committee will reconvene toward the end of next week to review the situation with Emergency Management.

The Complex is closed to visitors and non-essential staff. The ASTcomplex will remain in Phase 1 of our Recovery Plan for at least one more week. Oklahoma continues to report record high COVID positives. We will keep you updated on our plans for reopening. The EC plans to reevaluate our situation later this week. We also had all buildings sanitized and deep cleaned on Friday. We will begin a second wave of testing this week for remaining employees. We are happy to report that all results from last week's testing were negative. The Executive Committee as well as Directors and essential employees were tested initially.

Last week, after reverting back to Phase 1 of the AST Recovery Plan, we began mandatory COVID testing for staff. We greatly appreciate the Emergency Management team for taking the courses required for this certification, and we know this standardized system will be extremely helpful as we move forward in the fight against COVID. This system was developed by the Department of Homeland Security and establishes a uniform set of processes and procedures that emergency responders at all levels of government will use to conduct response operations. NIMS is the first-ever standardized approach to incident management and response. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe is proud to announce that our Emergency Management team is National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant. Here is a timeline of actions taken to date with the most recent listed first:

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