Mayor Danielle Slade said Mount Isa is hurting as a result of COVID-19.
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"A lot of businesses are either shut or temporarily shut," Cr Slade said.
"People have no income stream coming in though Jobkeeper has been a big blessing and saved a lot of jobs.
"For people who can still open, the restrictions make it very difficult, having to take people's name and address and keep it for eight weeks, or cleaning, one accommodation place it's cost them $1000 a week for cleaning."
Speaking after Council did a survey of businesses and their impact Cr Slade said a lot of Mount Isa's accommodation places were doing it tough, especially the caravan parks.
"The caravan parks were under stricter conditions than everyone else, they weren't allowed to advertise.to bring tourists," she said.
"When people come, it would be great if they supported Mount Isa stayed at our accommodation and ate out at our restaurants."
Cr Slade said it was early days to see signs of tourists coming through after Stage 2 was brought forward on Monday and she hoped Qantas might begin to add more than the two Brisbane to Mount Isa flights a week.
"I notice they had more flights scheduled in the school holidays, one a day, so they definitely had in their mind that more people would be able to travel in Stage 2," she said.
"They'll be sitting down and working out what is viable for them at the moment.
"It's going to be hard decision for them. Mount Isa hasn't got the FIFO crowd at the moment. Everyone is staying put. But I'd love to catch up with Qantas and find out what their intentions are."
Council has not been immune from the crisis though they have got a funding boost in the last few days which will help the budget it is due to deliver at the end of the month.
"Yesterday I got an email from the minister for Local Government Stirling Hinchliffe and we have been given $2.5m to go for our Works for Queensland and that's to do any projects, so that's pretty exciting as we are in the middle of budget and we have a few shovel-ready projects to go," she said.
"There's also the $100m resource fund for social infrastructure so that's something we are also looking into."
Cr Slade said budget negotiations were also taking into account current financial hardships to keep any rate rises to a minimum.
"We've made the finance team work very hard and what to keep, we're obviously look at keeping externally funded projects and the other priorities are things that need to be."
For a new mayor who campaigned on the theme of more community engagement, the pandemic has made it hard to get a message out.
"I've been on the phone a lot," he said.
"I'm certainly noticing more face to face meetings now, in the past everything has been on Zoom.
Recently the Mayor did have a virtual hookup with the Governor of Queensland, as part of the Governor's community outreach.
"He rings up mayors in different towns and has a chat. It's generally a state of the nation, so he wanted to know how we were going with COVID-19 and I talked about how we were faring, and how we were faring as a council where we've kept 100 percent jobs and keep everyone employed.
Meanwhile Cr Slade said the Riversleigh Fossil Centre renovations were close to being finished.
"I'm going for a walk through (the building) next week and hopefully we'll have an opening of some description in the next few weeks, as everyone is ready to travel," she said.
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