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City of Tukwila
Allan Ekberg, Mayor
INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
Community Services & Safety Committee
Jay C. Wittwer, Fire Chief
Norm Golden, Deputy Chief
Jay C. Wittwer, Fire Chief
Allan Ekberg, Mayor, David Cline, City Administrator
02/23/2021
Update regarding Testing and Vaccinations for Covid-19
CURRENT STATUS
The Fire Department is reporting out on the current status with the COVID-19 testing site in
Tukwila and the mobile vaccination processes.
The attached is a powerpoint presentation that will guide the discussion.
DISCUSSION
A. The Tukwila Fire Department has taken part in the management of the Covid
Testing Site at The Church by The Side Of The Road since early October 2020.
B. We have provided a site manager and off duty employees (firefighters) to staff
the swabbing positions for the testing site.
C. We plan to continue with like support for the time that the King County Public
Health testing site will remain open.
D. The same support is now under way regarding the Mobile Vaccination Team
efforts for the City of Tukwila.
E. The Fire Department has worked diligently in partnership with our regional
partners to assist with both programs. More details will be discussed during
the presentation.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Fire Department personnel that are involved with the project are doing so much of the time
on their off time from their regular duties. They are compensated with overtime, this will be
applied to their regular bi-monthly pay processes and reimbursed by King County Health.
Our COVID-19 Site Manager has been assigned to a day shift and the Cover position is
compensated in a like fashion as noted above.
RECOMMENDATION
The presentation is for discussion only.
ATTACHMENTS
• 2021 March COVID-19 Presentation
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• COVID-19 Testing Site / Chief Wittwer
• Vaccination Delivery / Chief Golden
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Covid-19 Testing in Tukwila
COVID-19 Testing site
Church By The Side of The Road
Oct 2020 to date
High of 900 + tests per day in Dec 2020 to a low of 127 in Feb 2021
Future — uncertain, yet at least to the end of April 2021
Leadership / Manager - Firefighter from Tukwila
Jeff Nichols
Cathy Browning
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Vaccination Delivery
Vaccine delivery to the Tukwila Community.
Tukwila Fire Department is an approved agency through King County Health to deliver Vaccines via
Mobile Vaccination Teams (MVTs)
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) are approved County wide to deliver these injections
MVTs will have off-duty Firefighters/EMTs making up the three-person teams
Overtime will be reimbursed by King County Health
March 1, 2021 is the projected start date
Outreach to the community — A master list has been started and connections have been made
Locations will be prioritized by population and needs
Mobile Teams to deliver the vaccines
Supply of the vaccine is the determining factor of how quickly the vaccine will be delivered
These efforts by the Fire Department will bring vaccines into the community 60-90 days earlier than what
King County had planned for a smaller community such as Tukwila
Questions?
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References
https://www.kingcounty.gov/search.aspx?utf8=%E2
%9C%93&q=covid-19
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-
19/testing.aspx
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-
19/vaccine.aspx