SUDBURY -- City councillors in Sudbury will hear a report Tuesday that offers some updated estimates of the financial impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

A new report prepared by City of Greater Sudbury Chief Administrative Officer Ed Archer shows that a combination of lost revenue and added costs is creating a $370,000 hole in the city budget each week.

This is just under the incremental cost estimated by the city's executive director of finance assets & fleet, Ed Stankiewicz, in a report presented to the Finance and Administrative Committee on April 14.

"This estimate excludes information that is still under review related to provincial offences revenues," Archer said in the report. "It does not reflect the effect of lost revenues from leisure services’ winter season, which was a one-time revenue loss of $600,000."

City officials are still hopeful that funding from Ottawa and Queen's Park will be available to help municipalities.

"Financial support from senior governments may be able to offset some of these costs once details of their programs are available," states Archer's report.

Many city services are still available to residents, the report said, and in areas where services have been suspended, staff have been redeployed to where they are needed or are currently focusing on work that normally wouldn't be a high priority.

According to the CAO's report, about eight per cent of the city's 2,000 staff members are working directly on the COVID-19 response. That has led to paid overtime claims of 1,915 hours, as well as unpaid overtime by non-union workers. Absenteeism is up, running as high as seven per cent, compared to the normal 3-4 per cent.

"There are 1,622 employees reporting to work and 72 redeployed to continue work on critical and essential services," the report said. "Altogether, 463 staff are away from work, (227 have been laid off, 229 are on declared emergency leave and seven are on infectious disease emergency leave)."

Planning is underway for when the city is allowed to return to normal – whatever the new normal may be – the report said.

"With so many changes made during the last two months, the team will identify opportunities to sustain the new and creative ways introduced for delivering services that should continue as part of regular operations," the report said. "This will include an assessment of alternate work arrangements created as part of the corporation’s COVID-19 response, especially work from home."

A more detailed report with updated estimates will be prepared for the May 12 finance and administration committee meeting.