Work on establishing an alternative isolation site for COVID-19 patients reached an important milestone last week. During the June 9 assembly meeting, Borough Manager Lisa Von Bargen announced that a lease had been signed to use the old Sourdough Lodge to potentially house COVID-19 patients. The original plan was to use one of Trident Seafood's bunkhouses, but Von Bargen said that using the lodge would be a better deal.
"The terms of that are $5,000 a month while there's nobody in there," she said. "Once people go in, whether it's one or whether it's ten in the facility, the rental cost goes up to $15,000 a month."
Captain Dorianne Sprehe, with the fire department and the local emergency operations command, said that they would be working on setting up the lodge to serve as an isolation site. Training for a shelter manager was scheduled to take place on Friday, June 12, as well.
Von Bargen added, in a phone call on Monday, June 15, that the lease will run through to the end of October. CARES Act money is being used to cover the costs of the isolation site, she said. She also said that the city may apply for FEMA funding, as well, but that is currently up in the air.
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