diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b80794e..e3f3d6a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 *.Rproj
 
 /renv/
+/test/
 
 model-metadata/README_files/
 model-output/README_files/
diff --git a/hub-config/admin.json b/hub-config/admin.json
index d7d62d9..f9bd6a7 100644
--- a/hub-config/admin.json
+++ b/hub-config/admin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "schema_version": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hubverse-org/schemas/main/v3.0.0/admin-schema.json",
     "name": "COVID-19 Forecast Hub",
-    "maintainer": "CDC",
+    "maintainer": "US CDC",
     "contact": {
         "name": "Subekshya Bidari",
         "email": "covidhub@cdc.gov"
diff --git a/hub-config/model-metadata-schema.json b/hub-config/model-metadata-schema.json
index 55c39ad..f05820f 100644
--- a/hub-config/model-metadata-schema.json
+++ b/hub-config/model-metadata-schema.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "title": "Schema for Modeling Hub model metadata",
-    "description": "This is the schema for model metadata files, please refer to https://github.com/covid19-forecast-hub-europe/covid19-forecast-hub-europe/wiki/Metadata for more information.",
+    "description": "This is the schema for model metadata files, please refer to  https://github.com/CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub/blob/main/model-metadata/README.md for more information.",
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
         "team_name": {
@@ -39,16 +39,17 @@
                     "affiliation": {
                         "type": "string"
                     },
-                    "orcid": {
-                        "type": "string",
-                        "pattern": "^\\d{4}\\-\\d{4}\\-\\d{4}\\-[\\dX]{4}$"
-                    },
                     "email": {
                         "type": "string",
                         "format": "email"
                     },
-                    "additionalProperties": false
-                }
+                    "orcid": {
+                        "type": "string",
+                        "pattern": "^\\d{4}\\-\\d{4}\\-\\d{4}\\-[\\dX]{4}$"
+                    }
+                },
+                "additionalProperties": false,
+                "required": ["name", "affiliation", "email"]
             }
         },
         "website_url": {
@@ -108,13 +109,9 @@
         "ensemble_of_hub_models": {
             "description": "Indicator for whether this model is an ensemble of other models submitted to this Hub",
             "type": "boolean"
-        },
-        "source_notes": {
-            "description": "Original source of the model output data",
-            "type": "string"
         }
     },
-    "additionalProperties": true,
+    "additionalProperties": false,
     "required": [
         "team_name",
         "team_abbr",
diff --git a/hub-config/tasks.json b/hub-config/tasks.json
index 5edc45b..b25e254 100644
--- a/hub-config/tasks.json
+++ b/hub-config/tasks.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
                     "task_ids": {
                         "reference_date": {
                             "required": null,
-                            "optional": ["2024-11-09", "2024-11-16", "2024-11-23", 
+                            "optional": ["2024-11-16", "2024-11-23", 
                                 "2024-11-30", "2024-12-07", "2024-12-14", "2024-12-21", 
                                 "2024-12-28", "2025-01-04", "2025-01-11", "2025-01-18", 
                                 "2025-01-25", "2025-02-01", "2025-02-08", "2025-02-15", 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
                         },
                         "target_end_date": {
                             "required": null,
-                            "optional": ["2024-11-09", "2024-11-16", "2024-11-23", 
+                            "optional": ["2024-11-16", "2024-11-23", 
                                 "2024-11-30", "2024-12-07", "2024-12-14", "2024-12-21", 
                                 "2024-12-28", "2025-01-04", "2025-01-11", "2025-01-18", 
                                 "2025-01-25", "2025-02-01", "2025-02-08", "2025-02-15", 
@@ -150,9 +150,7 @@
                             "target_name": "incident covid hospitalizations",
                             "target_units": "count",
                             "target_keys": {
-                                "target": [
-                                    "wk inc covid hosp"
-                                ]
+                                "target": "wk inc covid hosp"
                             },
                             "target_type": "continuous",
                             "description": "This target represents the count of new hospitalizations in the week ending on the date [horizon] weeks after the reference_date, on the target_end_date.",