American Maritime Officers will hold an in-person monthly membership meeting on Monday, December 6 at AMO headquarters. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. eastern time.

For the in-person membership meeting December 6, the AMO Executive Board has set appropriate, practical and effective health safeguards - including proof of vaccination OR confirmation of a negative COVID test from the clinic operated by AMO Plans at STAR Center or another qualified testing source.

Testing at the AMO clinic will be by appointment the morning of the meeting because each result - positive or negative - takes 15 minutes following each test. AMO members and applicants nearby in South Florida who will need a test should call ahead the morning of December 6 for this diagnostic procedure at the clinic.

The AMO clinic will have availability for AMO members and applicants to get tested between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Monday, December 6, in advance of the meeting. The direct line to the clinic is 954-927-5213.

AMO members attending class at STAR Center on the meeting date will have been vaccinated or tested. Unvaccinated students on campus for more than a week are tested weekly.

These requirements are already in place for all union officials, representatives and support staff at AMO headquarters and are similar to protocols in place at STAR Center.

The AMO Executive Board has also approved temperature checks at sign-in, and AMO boarding representatives will be checking AMO member documentation of vaccine or testing status beginning at 1200 at AMO headquarters.

Mindful of the unprecedented, unpredictable nature of the pandemic, the Executive Board will be alert to all developments and will adapt and adjust its strategy and restrictions if necessary. Because Florida no longer provides COVID-19 data as public information, we will continue to rely exclusively on what Florida reports nearly each week to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.