diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Welcome!
+Thank you for contributing to CDC's Open Source projects! If you have any
+questions or doubts, don't be afraid to send them our way. We appreciate all
+contributions, and we are looking forward to fostering an open, transparent, and
+collaborative environment.
+
+Before contributing, we encourage you to also read our [LICENSE](LICENSE),
+[README](README.md), and
+[code-of-conduct](code-of-conduct.md)
+files, also found in this repository. If you have any inquiries or questions not
+answered by the content of this repository, feel free to [contact us](mailto:surveillanceplatform@cdc.gov).
+
+## Public Domain
+This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and
+related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the [CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
+All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By
+submitting a pull request you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of
+copyright interest.
+
+## Requesting Changes
+Our pull request/merging process is designed to give the CDC Surveillance Team
+and other in our space an opportunity to consider and discuss any suggested
+changes. This policy affects all CDC spaces, both on-line and off, and all users
+are expected to abide by it.
+
+### Open an issue in the repository
+If you don't have specific language to submit but would like to suggest a change
+or have something addressed, you can open an issue in this repository. Team
+members will respond to the issue as soon as possible.
+
+### Submit a pull request
+If you would like to contribute, please submit a pull request. In order for us
+to merge a pull request, it must:
+   * Be at least seven days old. Pull requests may be held longer if necessary
+     to give people the opportunity to assess it.
+   * Receive a +1 from a majority of team members associated with the request.
+     If there is significant dissent between the team, a meeting will be held to
+     discuss a plan of action for the pull request.
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+Package: hubhelpr
+Title: Helper functions for CDC hubs maintainance
+Version: 0.0.0.9000
+Authors@R: 
+    person("Subekshya", "Bidari", 
+    email = "zib2@cdc.gov",
+    role = c("aut", "cre"))
+Description: This package provides functions to help with the maintainance of CDC hubs.
+License: Apache License (>= 2)
+Encoding: UTF-8
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/DISCLAIMER.md b/DISCLAIMER.md
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+# DISCLAIMER
+Use of this service is limited only to **non-sensitive and publicly available data**. Users must not use, share, or store any kind of sensitive data like health status, provision or payment of healthcare, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and/or Protected Health Information (PHI), etc. under **ANY** circumstance.
+
+Administrators for this service reserve the right to moderate all information used, shared, or stored with this service at any time. Any user that cannot abide by this disclaimer and Code of Conduct may be subject to action, up to and including revoking access to services.
+
+The material embodied in this software is provided to you "as-is" and without warranty of any kind,express, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the United States (U.S.) government be liable to you or anyone else for any direct, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including without limitation, loss of profit, loss of use, savings or revenue, or the claims of third parties, whether or not CDC or the U.S. government has been advised of the possibility of such loss, however caused and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the possession, use or performance of this software.
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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+# Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+
diff --git a/air.toml b/air.toml
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+[format]
+line-width = 80
+indent-width = 2
+indent-style = "space"
+line-ending = "auto"
+persistent-line-breaks = true
+exclude = []
+default-exclude = true
+skip = []
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ruff.toml b/ruff.toml
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-extend-include = ["*.ipynb"]
-line-length = 79