{"id":5538,"date":"2020-03-20T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:24:01","slug":"city-to-announce-covid-19-community-and-economic-resilience-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/city-to-announce-covid-19-community-and-economic-resilience-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"City to announce COVID-19 Community and Economic Resilience Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Newcastle is developing a Community and Economic Resilience package, to assist Novocastrians through a period of unprecedented social and economic disruption caused by the spread of COVID-19.<br \/>\nLord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said City of Newcastle is taking proactive actions that will benefit our community in what is perhaps the City\u2019s greatest ever challenge.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople may be isolated for periods of time, small businesses will face supply chain issues and reduced economic activity, and the unemployment rate is likely to rise.<br \/>\n\u201cCollectively, we can get through this and City of Newcastle is doing all that it can to facilitate community and economic resilience.\u201d<br \/>\nPart of City of Newcastle\u2019s work includes the development of a Community and Economic Resilience Response.<br \/>\n\u201cThis situation requires us to consider how we can deliver economic and well-being outcomes that will support our community,\u201d Cr Nelmes said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe principles we have used are about expanding existing platforms and focusing on strategic legacy items for economic and community resilience.<br \/>\n\u201cFor example, we will look at ways of developing our local skills base, accelerating digital literacy for small business and growing community cohesion.<br \/>\n\u201cTalented and diverse teams across the City of Newcastle are also putting together measures in response to COVID-19.<br \/>\n\u201cThese resilience measures are being informed by international experts and seek to focus on areas where local government can support local businesses and organisations do what they do best.<br \/>\n\u201cThe measures will complement the previously announced Federal and NSW Government stimulus packages.<br \/>\n\u201cA second phase of the resilience package likely to be announced in May will be a multi-million dollar increase in the City\u2019s planned capital works program for the next financial year.<br \/>\n\u201cNewcastle has a long history of dealing with economic adversity, which gives us the confidence to know that as a community we can get through this together. It will be challenging and have personal impact, but with community mindedness, we will come out the other side,\u201d Cr Nelmes added.<br \/>\nThe COVID-19 economic resilience package will be considered at Tuesday night\u2019s ordinary council meeting and then factored into the City\u2019s upcoming Quarterly Budget Review.<br \/>\nFurther information about the City\u2019s response is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/COVID-19-how-we-are-responding\">newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Newcastle is developing a Community and Economic Resilience package, to assist Novocastrians through a period of unprecedented social and economic disruption caused by the spread of COVID-19. Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said City of Newcastle is taking proactive actions that will benefit our community in what is perhaps the City\u2019s greatest ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/city-to-announce-covid-19-community-and-economic-resilience-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City to announce COVID-19 Community and Economic Resilience Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}