GENERAL
There are already a plethora of checklists, model procedures and minimum operating standards available for businesses off all types, many of which were necessary to allow for initial reopening attempts or to maintain essential operations. These have been developed by various governments, industry and trade groups and individual operators and consultants. It is not our goal in this section to duplicate those efforts. Our focus in this section is to provide practical recommendations based upon anticipated trends to guide and enhance the recovery process across Indian country and all of its economic sectors. The recommendations and the ideas underlying them are not presented as comprehensive, exhaustive or completely original. They are a compendium of our own analyses, best practices already being observed and extrapolations of likely refinements in initial steps designed to give a broad and high-level framework to assist tribal economic recovery
PRESCRIPTIONS ACROSS SECTORS
Some of the recommendations we offer do not apply to specific industry sectors, but rather apply to tribal economies as a whole. These recommendations are described in the following pages. RECOVERY PHASES The recovery process will occur in phases that will overlap and shift back and forth to some degree with differing start dates and end dates depending upon region, industry and pandemic conditions. We characterize the three phases as Initial, Transitional, and Recovery. Descriptions and recommendations for each phase are offered below. Initial Phase (June to December 2020) The initial phase has already begun with the first tentative steps toward partial lifting of restrictions and reopening of shuttered businesses. This phase will overlap with the ongoing crisis, which is expected to extend into the first half of next year and also with the transitional phase that will follow. The degree of overlap with both will depend upon pandemic conditions and government actions in each area and will be characterized by shifts backward on occasion as second and possible third waves of outbreaks surface. The actions taken during the initial phase will be ad hoc, quickly applied with varying degrees of success and in need of frequent adjustment or revision. Versions of this have already been scene in such areas as the PPP loan program and other CARES stimuli, recommendations on mask wearing, opening and then reclosing schools in South Korea, and other similar actions.
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