Dear Neighbors:

The March “Neighborhood News” is now available online for your reading pleasure, in both English and Spanish, at:

http://www.cabq.gov/office-of-neighborhood-coordination/neighborhood-newsletter

With many of us social-distancing, self-quarantining, working from home or home with kids, and with the ongoing concerns about COVID-19 (coronavirus), it is more important than ever to take care of one another. Albuquerque is our home, our community, and our city and it’s up to us to care for it and for each other. Please consider ordering takeout from your favorite local restaurant, buying a gift card from your favorite local shop or business, and checking on family, friends and neighbors who are also isolated during this public health emergency. As well, remember our first responders and keep them in your thoughts – our police officers, fire fighters, EMTs, bus drivers, paratransit drivers, solid waste truck drivers, 911 and 311 operators, grocery store clerks, and those wonderful folks who deliver our groceries, food, and necessary supplies.

Please also remember that everyone in our community needs food and supplies, so please don’t hoard items like toilet paper, bottled water, hand sanitizer and food. Buy what you need, and if you know someone who is running low on these supplies, consider sharing if it will not create hardship for you.

·         For updates on COVID-19, visit the Centers for Disease Control at: www.cdc.gov

·         If you have questions about COVID-19 in New Mexico or have concerns about possible symptoms, call the New Mexico Department of Health’s toll-free hotline at: 1-855-600-3453.

·         For unemployment assistance, visit: https://www.dws.state.nm.us/COVID-19-Info

·         For help with child care, food, supplies or loss of income call the toll-free state hotline at 1-833-551-0518.

Together, we will get through this. Take care of one another.

Vanessa Baca

Neighborhood Communication Liaison

Office of Neighborhood Coordination (ONC) | City Council Department | City of Albuquerque

(505) 768-3331 Office

E-mail: vanessabaca@cabq.gov

Website: www.cabq.gov/neighborhoods