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Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with ....
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, on ....
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Officials, latinos make up 55 and it can have very severe the marketplace was an indoor impacts if you have a lot of of californias confirmed covid mall, but now its reclassified 19 cases, despite being just the building as a transport exposure to it. All right. 39 of the states population. Terminal, allowing all indoor so because of the covid19 Governor Newsom said the and outdoor merchants to resume majority of those with the outbreak, you have a lot of closures in place at many of their operations. To talk more about this ordeal, we are joined now the owner the parks around the east bay. Virus are essential workers in my understanding is that people different economic of the ferry plaza wine shouldnt be swim, none of the investigators with the most recreational swimming areas at working in agriculture and any of the East Bay Lakes are construction. Merchants, debbie. Glad ....
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