NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Some news from the group leaders meeting...

• 1-224 (meeting room across from my office) is being upgraded for videoconferencing, but no immediate plans to upgrade additional rooms in physics. Was referred to 'other rooms around the site'. Michael and I have requested that more rooms be upgraded in 510, like the ones upstairs from 1-224.
• 50 person per meeting room occupancy limit (same rule for small ones like 1-224 and for the large seminar room, bizarrely)
• no occupancy limits for offices for vaccinated people (all NPPS people are vaccinated)
• mask rule still in place (we won't use a meeting room for group meetings until that is relaxed), expected to change soon
• international travel doesn't require DOE HQ approval any longer. BNL CFO can approve. Requirement is still 'mission critical'. Conferences and workshops not allowed. (But are allowed, people say, for several other DOE labs.) Timescale for changing this is 'timescale of weeks'. Everyone is very unhappy about this. We're told 'we just have to wait'.
• food service is no better than before covid, ie doesn't exist apart from micro-marts and food trucks (which would need to ramp up a lot to serve the larger population).
  • (If you'd be interested in Friday pizza lunch (brought in from outside) let me know; I tried this before covid to ~no interest but checking again)

  Torre

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