Medical

April 8 Coronavirus Data Posted – Total positives: 1523

By Prince Of Petworth


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Ed. Note: Yesterday there were 1,440 total positives.

From the Mayor’s Office:

“The District’s reported data for Wednesday, April 8, 2020 includes 83 new positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the District’s overall positive case total to 1,523.

The District reported five additional COVID-19 related deaths: a 54-year-old female, a 57-year-old-male, a 64-year-old male, a 74-year-old male, and an 87-year-old female. Tragically, 32 District residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19.”

“DC COVID-19 Data for April 8, 2020

Total Tested Overall: 8724
Total Positives: 1523
Total Lives Lost: 31
Total Recovered: 393

Hospital Status Data
April 7, 2020

ICU Beds Available: 107
Total Ventilators: 438
In-Use Ventilators: 200
Available Ventilators: 238″ (more…)

DC Government

New Order From the Mayor: “no farmers’ market may operate unless issued a waiver”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville flickr user Ted Eytan

From the Mayor’s Office last night:

“Today, to protect the District’s food supply chain and the District’s frontline food workers during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency, Mayor Muriel Bowser issued Mayor’s Order 2020-058.

MO 2020-58 Social Distancing Protocols Required for Food Sellers (PDF)

The Order states that no farmers’ market may operate unless issued a waiver. (more…)

Crime

Shots Fired around 8pm in Petworth Last Night “as two cars chased each other firing shots.”

By Prince Of Petworth


via google maps

Thanks to all who reported to us @PoPville on twitter hearing from around 8th and Varnum Street, NW. Though one resident reported: “Two cars were speeding down 800 b/o Buchanan and went South down 9th shooting.”

From MPD:

“On April 8, 2020 at 800 pm, the Fourth District had multiple sounds of gunshots reported as two cars chased each other firing shots. (more…)

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The reality

You’ve probably never read your building’s property management contract all the way through. Most board members haven’t either. If you did, you’d find a carefully defined scope of work — vendors coordinated, maintenance dispatched, assessments collected, reports generated.

What you wouldn’t find: anything about fiduciary duties. Reserve funding strategy. Compliance tracking. Case documentation. Institutional memory. The legal obligations that make your board personally accountable to unit owners.

That’s not an oversight in the contract. It’s the contract. Property management was never designed to cover governance. And yet most boards — paying $10,000 to $18,000 a year for the service — assume it does.

Operations and governance are different jobs. One has a contract. The other has a fiduciary duty.

What your building is paying — and what it’s getting.

What the contract covers. What it doesn’t.

The markup problem most boards don’t know about.

Beyond the management fee, most property management companies mark up vendor invoices — the plumber, the landscaper, the elevator contractor — by 10 to 15 percent before passing the bill to the association. It’s legal. It’s common. And boards have almost no visibility into it. (more…)

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Gym

It’s a Passover/Easter Miracle – Washington Sports Club “your membership will be put on freeze — at no cost to you — going forward while we are temporarily closed.”

By Prince Of Petworth

And so concludes our latest WSC Saga Thanks to all who passed on from the Washington Sports Club parent company:

“April 8, 2020

Dear Valued Member:

We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. We have adjusted our policies to align with your needs and industry best practices: As a result, your membership will be put on freeze — at no cost to you — going forward while we are temporarily closed. There is no action required on your part to enact the freeze. (more…)

Rant/Revel

Random Reader Rant and/or Revel

By Prince Of Petworth


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You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. But please no personal attacks and no need to correct people’s grammar. This is a place to vent and/or celebrate things about daily life in D.C.

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Event

Bra & Order: Civil Libertease | A Burlesque & Variety Fundraiser

DC Comedy Loft

1523 22nd St NW

Washington, District of Columbia 20037

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Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before The Honorable Callie Pigeon and Delilah Dentata are admonished to draw near.

Callie and Delilah, “Attorneys at Law”*, hereby summon you to a burlesque and variety “tribute” to crime, justice, and lovers of both!

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Dupont Circle

Archeological Finds Vol. 34 – Newspaper Clipping from July 1905

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to Ralston for sending:

“When renovating a bathroom in my apartment In Dupont Circle I found newspapers packed around a pipe. This article from one of those newspapers (still pretty crinkled despite my best, careful efforts) reports on the flowers sent to the family of John Hay on the occasion of his death in July 1905. Note the reference to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt & King Edward VII. Research confirmed that my building was built in 1905 – and the pipe was still being held firmly in place by newspaper wedged in the wall over a century later!”

If you have a photo of a neat find from your house or place of work please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail.com thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.

Bars

“Restaurants/bars selling sweatshirts etc”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Given that I’ll be spending the foreseeable future in sweats and a t-shirt, can we get some suggestions of local businesses who are selling swag that we could add to delivery/curbside pick up orders? If I’m going to be rocking a sweatshirt, I’d love it to be helping the community.”

The Pug has some great gear, a few sizes still available – who else?

Animal Fix

Your Afternoon Animal Fix

By Prince Of Petworth

If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood.  If you love the animal fix and want to ensure PoPville’s long term viability please consider donating to our Patreon here.

“Echo (the artist fka “Aquata”) from Brookland. A Homeward Trails/Crumbs & Whiskers alumna who lives for bird watching and celebrated her one year adoptiversary on March 14th.”

“Ollie in Trinidad plans to spend his coronavirus telework quarantine wishing basketball was still on and taking all the naps he can fit into one day”

Bloomingdale

“Something big happening at Florida and North Capitol!”

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to Alex for sending. DEVELOPING stay tuned for updates as we get them.

Miss Melissa reports: “All officers are lined up giving a salute as a a group of officers passed. An officer died.”

Unfortunate update from Alan Henney:

“update: Regarding the procession on North Capitol St w/ Falcon, source says another MPD Sgt. died this morning. She was found in her police car unconscious at 3D and was rushed to Wash Hospital Center where she was pronounced. Unsure of cause of death. That’s 2 Sgts in 2 days.”

Update from MPD:

“It is with heavy hearts that the Metropolitan Police Department announces that 49 year-old Sergeant Donna Allen, most recently assigned to Third District Patrol, passed away earlier this morning following a medical emergency after having worked her midnight tour of duty. At this time it does not appear her tragic passing was COVID-19 related but further medical tests are being conducted. Sergeant Allen had over 30 years of service with the Metropolitan Police Department.

Sergeant Allen’s unexpected passing brings the MPD family great sadness,” says Chief of Police Peter Newsham, “Her friendship and good nature will be missed by many. I offer my deepest, most heartfelt condolences to Sergeant Allen’s family and friends at this time.”

Sergeant Allen is survived by her mother and five siblings.”

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