The allowance of beauty businesses to open will help boost our economy, the well being and mental health of everyone. Highlight of positives affects this allowance includes; less people on unemployment, improvements of mental health among citizens, and save the economy from collapsing further. Those stylist/technicians allowed back to work are then able to support their families, pay their mortgage/rent, utilities, car loans and the list can keep on going. The best of all is our nation, state and local's economy can have a boost in money circulation and help stop further damage and create more growth to America's economic future. One other positive outcome is everyone's mental health will be restored at some level. It'll be able to ease and start integrating everyone back into life slowly into normality.

Physical outlets are more important now than ever before. Our adult and youth clientele need to remain connected, active and positive. Parents need this as much as our youth does. Many small studios will be forced to shut their doors forever because of this pandemic. Help us spread the word and petition the re-opening of small studios with hopes that this helps save these businesses. We need them around, we need to continue to provide healthy options for the mind, body and soul....for all ages.

We are losing our business! Forcing to close to due overhead still having to be paid while closed.

Why is this important? The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship.

Allow a licensed beauty professional to perform a beauty service/ privately with one client in the salon / per stylist at a time Starting as of Monday, April 27, 2020. All necessary precautions and sanitation protocols approved by the state of Ok and the local Board of Health will be followed. Our industry needs to be recognized & deemed as an essential business so we can better serve our community. Servicing one client at a time (while wearing a mask & gloves) poses little to no risk of spreading the virus, as compared to 20 or more people in a grocery store or 10 plus people at restaurants picking up food. Why is this important? The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. How it will be delivered Email

Most if not all massage and salon businesses no longer have any form of income and have had no help at all for the past several weeks. We see you have done nothing to help us so now we must help ourselves. This is an opportunity for you to do the right thing before we must take more serious actions.

As independent contractors these individuals entire living is based on interaction with their clientele and the income it generates. With this continued shut down they are loosing out not only income but several may be in danger of closing their business that they have spent years building. Rent, utilities, and insurance premiums must continue to be paid but without income these shops maybe lost and forced to close. Please help by signing today.

Covid 19 is affecting the economy in major ways and forcing people to make tough decisions for their families based upon recent events and work displacement. To ease the economical pain in our industry it is in our best discretion to open back up with these limited restrictions. Moreover the quarantine was implemented to flatten the curve of the spread of covid 19 to ensure that hospitals were not overwhelmed all at once and to help prevent such rapid spread. The number of people infected is currently on a decline and the numbers aren’t as bad as once projected. Additionally Tattoo artist are trained and certified in blood borne pathogens and cross contamination as well as many other medical safety and sterility procedures.

Industry Beauty Professionals rely on the income from clients. We cannot perform a haircut online. While the “beauty industry is deemed non-essential” the ability to practice our craft is very ESSENTIAL to our livelihood. We are facing a grave financial hardship.

Hair stylists’ income and stability are drastically being effected by the Covid-19 virus and stay at home orders. In addition, hair salons have been deemed non-essential so all of them have had to close there doors. If grocery stores, retail stores, are allowed to remain open with social distancing guidelines and PPE being worn, it seems only fair and the right thing to do for hair salons to do the same thing. Many salons will be completely bankrupt if they continue to remain closed for anytime longer and many people’s lives will be completely destroyed (financially) if we don’t get them back to work, even on a limited basis, very soon.

BACKGROUND: I am the owner of a boutique fitness and nutrition studio, Fit Forward in Carlisle, PA. ALL fitness studios, gyms, health clubs, etc. in Pennsylvania were abruptly demanded to shut down on March 16th to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. In an abundance of caution to “flatten the curve,” I believe this was a smart decision to some degree, but also feel the importance and essential nature of the services we offer and what we do for our communities. For this reason I personally submitted for a waiver to be classified as "essential" due to the nature of our clientele, their needs, their disabilities, their rehab, and their counting on our assistance and expertise to help them maintain their health especially during this time. I got denied. Many other businesses such as certain Cabinet Companies (Owned by you Mr. Governor), Ice Cream Shops, Coffee Shops, etc were deemed "essential" and left alone to operate, knowing that these businesses would most likely allow more than one person at a given time to congregate in unsanitary, uncontrolled environments. Even stepping foot in a grocery store, a hardware store, or any open "essential" business right now is mind-blowing to me with the number of people in these places, the lack of sanitation, the people roaming around without masks on, the touching of items, paying with credit cards and touching screens, it seems impossible for those aforementioned "essential" businesses to host controlled environments. JUSTIFICATION: Boutique fitness studios are facilities of less than 7,500 square feet, mine personally is less than 3,500 sf, designed to serve small numbers of clients at any one time, whereas fitness centers are commonly known as facilities designed to serve hundreds of clients at a time. I believe that boutique fitness studios (particularly personal training studios) from the beginning have inappropriately been classified within a larger fitness center category directed at facilities with 250 people or more and alongside other industries such as cinemas (average size 200-300 client capacity) or as a large group fitness type studio where there are 20-50 participants in a small space. We can train one client at a time. We can stagger appointments to limit crossing of clients. We can limit the number of trainers and clients in the facility at any given time. We can remain a safe distance from our clients while working with them. We can provide masks, hand sanitation stations and can monitor everything going on within our facilities. With the controlled numbers in a boutique Fitness Studio, I am confident in knowing we can offer a very clean, safe and free from the virus spreading facility to our community. IMPACT: Because being healthy, fit, and free from preventative diseases such as high blood pressure and Type 2 Diabetes is a key defense against this disease, and potential recurring waves of the disease, opening smartly and quickly to assist our population is also critical to the long-term health of our society. The importance of our mental health is so relevant right now and there needs to be a place to release all the negative energy especially NOW. It's proven that exercise and eating well positively impacts those suffering from depression and anxiety. These numbers are on the rise. The health of millions of clients is at stake as we confront a future with COVID-19. For every week a typical boutique fitness studio is closed, it forgoes $5,000-$20,000 in revenue. The significant financial impact of this crisis expands not only to owners, but also to the millions of Independent Contractors and Employees in our industry that are unable to work from home. Given that the Boutique Fitness Industry is estimated to be worth 42% of an $88 billion Industry, the weekly impact is $710 million of lost revenue. The Boutique Fitness Industry is one of the few female- led industries in existence. We estimate that 75%+ of the owners and workers impacted by this crisis are women, to include myself, and many of whom are the sole breadwinners for their families. The radical impact to a female- led industry is undeniable. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED PROFESSIONALS AND CONSUMERS WITHIN THE BOUTIQUE FITNESS STUDIO COMMUNITY, RESPECTFULLY REQUEST BEING ABLE TO REOPEN BUSINESSES ON MAY 11th FROM YOU GOVERNOR WOLF I ask that those in agreement petition for ALL Boutique Fitness and Personal Training Studios be given the rights to do a soft reopening on May 1st, 2020. So far, the petitioning has been very active and positive. I am happy to announce that in the great terms of fairness several companies, businesses originally given "essential status" were finally resided and closed... to include The Wolf Cabinet Company and candy store owned by a Senate Majority Leader. It is time to allow us studio owners, personal trainers, and nutrition counselors, get back to work for our community.

Our right to pursue happiness and make a living has been taken away. This cannot be allowed.