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Members Named to North Country "Control Room" for Reopening

May 12, 2020   11:15 a.m.
    Governor Cuomo has announced members for the regional control rooms that
    will monitor regional metrics during the state's reopening process. These regional
    control rooms will monitor the hospitalization rate, death rate, number of new
    hospitalizations, hospital bed capacity, ICU bed capacity, testing and contact
    tracing within its region during reopening and alert the state if the region's metrics
    no longer meet the reopening guidelines and adjust the reopening plan for that
    region accordingly.

    Each region's metrics can be tracked using the state's regional monitoring
    dashboard. A guide to the state's "NY Forward Reopening" Plan is available here.

    ""As we approach May 15, we have put regional control rooms in place, which
    are made up of the top government officials and academic and healthcare
    professionals in that region, to watch the situation in each region develop and
    increase or decrease the activity and speed of reopening based on the  metrics
    and guidelines. These control rooms are critical because we just made it over the
    mountain and nobody wants to go back to the other side now,"  Governor Cuomo
    said at a press conference on Monday.

    Members of the North Country Control Room
  • Regional Captain: Erik Kulleseid, NYS Parks Commissioner
  • Jim McKenna, REDC Co-Chair
  • Ron McDougall, President of the Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence
    Counties Central Trades and Labor Council
  • Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Farber
  • St. Lawrence County Legislature Chair Joe Lightfoot
  • Jefferson County Board of Legislators Chair Scott Gray
  • Lewis County Board of Legislators Chair Lawrence Dolhof
  • Franklin County Legislature Chair Don Dabiew
  • Clinton County Legislature Chair Mark Henry
  • Essex County Board of Supervisors Chair Shaun Gillilland