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Dear Friend,
Governor Hogan has issued a stay-at-home directive effective at 8 PM tonight. All Maryland residents are ordered to stay at home except for essential needs such as seeking urgent medical care and buying food. Essential businesses can remain open. Learn more at bit.ly/Gov-Hogan-Update-3-30.
For the latest updates, County residents can visit the County Health Department’s dedicated coronavirus web page: https://tinyurl.com/PGCcoronavirus. If you have any questions or concerns, you can also call the Prince George’s County Health Department coronavirus hotline at (301) 883-6627 to receive updated information about the coronavirus disease. Information will be updated as it becomes available.
The County Council will hold a virtual Council session tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31, at 1 PM. In addition, the Council will sit as the Board of Health. As the Board of Health, the council receive a briefing from Ernest Carter, MD, Health Officer and George Askew, MD, DCAO Health, Human Services & Education, regarding the present COVID-19 health crisis. The Council will also receive a briefing on a proposed County COVID-19 Business Relief Fund from Major Riddick, Chief Administrative Officer, David Iannucci, President and CEO, Economic Development Corporation, and Shelly Gross Wade, President and CEO, FSC First. The session will be live streamed, here.
Agenda.
 The COVID-19 screening site at FexEdField will opened today and will be available by appointment only. To obtain an appointment, individuals should call our hotline at 301-883-6627. Only those who meet strict CDC testing guidelines will obtain an appointment for this COVID-19 screening site.
County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is hosting a Latino TeleTown Hall and will be joined by several elected officials tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31. This will be in Spanish and targeted to our Latino community. Para español, haga clic aquí.
 The UM Prince George's Hospital Center personnel are in need of your help. If you have elastic bands (¼ inches in width), thread, sewing needles, or cotton fabric that you are willing to donate, please let us know. Your unused materials will go towards the effort to make face masks for staff.
To help, simply reply to this email or send an email to councildistrict1@co.pg.md.us and one of the members of your District One team will pick-up. We ask you package the materials in a resalable plastic bag and place the bag in your mailbox or outside your door. We are not accepting rubber bands.
 
 Ten new elementary school sites will be open for meals starting Monday, March 30. New meal sites include Bradbury Heights, Brandywine, Carrollton, Glassmanor, Hollywood, James McHenry, Ridgecrest, Riverdale, Robert Frost and Woodridge.
Three sites have been closed due to low participation: J. Frank Dent and Longfields elementary schools and Benjamin Stoddert Middle School.
Students may get a free sack meal at one of the following D1 locations:
- Buck Lodge Middle School
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
- Calverton Elementary School
- Laurel Elementary School
As always, please contact me at councildistrict1@co.pg.md.us or (301) 952-3887, if I can assist. To receive real time updates, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Sincerely,
Thomas E. Dernoga
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