Mission
Modifications to critical District operations occurred almost immediately in responding to COVID-19. Mayor Bowser ordered the District to switch to an unprecedented telework posture -- where beginning March 16th, 60 percent of DC government employees became teleworkers and many critical services became available online only, including the DMV, DCRA, Planning, and Housing. Similarly, the District's unique criminal justice system (both local and federal) worked to efficiently handle criminal justice matters, including filing online police reports, remote papering, releasing misdemeanants with enhanced good time credits, and working with Court-appointed inspectors on best practices for detention facilities facing infectious disease.
Focus
The committee will focus on both the challenges and key positive learnings from the District's response to the pandemic, including how to capitalize on fewer in-person engagements in the process to how to sooner identify, how to better train and resource staff working in the DC Jail, and how to make the system more resilient to the shock of a health emergency. The committee will recommend a phased approach to a new normal in government operations with a continued focus on service to DC residents and businesses, but also in efficiency identified in modified pandemic operations.
Including, but not limited to:
- Government facilities
- Government workforce
- Jails
- Courts
- Policing
- Trash Pickup
- Utilities
- Fire & Emergency Medical Services
- Information Technology
Community Members
- Dr. John Davies-Cole
- Daniel Ezrow
- Shamiah Kerney
- Ron Moten
- Jodi Ovca
- Aubrey Stephenson
- Jeff Tignor
- Quincy Booth
- Chief Contee
- Robert Holman
- Angel Jacobs
- Chief Judge Morin