Brownsville Mayor Juan "Trey" Mendez III issued a disaster declaration on Tuesday.
"The lessons we are learning from communities across the nation and the globe is that aggressive measures implemented sooner rather than later promise to protect our community and our community's most vulnerable members," Mendez said.
According to a news release from the city of Brownsville, the disaster declaration includes the following measures:
* Restaurants and bars are limited to 50% of occupancy in order to comply with social distancing effective Wednesday – delivery and takeout is strongly encouraged.* Downtown city metered parking will be immediately suspended.
* Places of worship, movie theaters and gymnasiums shall be limited to 50% of their occupancy and comply with social distancing.
*Private or “community gatherings” of individuals over 50 are banned until further notice – community gatherings don't not include spaces where 50 or more people may be in transit or buses, trains or airplanes, waiting for transit such as airports, bus stops or terminals. In addition, “community gatherings” does not include the following spaces where 50 or more persons may congregate, so as long as visitors are generally within arm’s length of one another for extended periods: office space, grocery stores, shopping malls, movie theaters, hospitals, medical offices and facilities.
*Bingo establishments are closed.
*Child and adult day care centers, effective Wednesday, shall be limited to 50 occupants or 50% of their legal occupancy - whichever is lower.
*All schools are closed, effective immediately.
*All city libraries are closed, effective immediately.
*Brownsville bus service, BMetro will be implementing social distancing measures.
*The Brownsville/South Padre Island Airport will limit access into the terminal building to ticketed passengers only.
*City events are cancelled effectively on Wednesday until further notice.
*General public and private community events are cancelled effectively on Wednesday until further notice.
* Meetings of city advisory boards, commissions and bureaus are cancelled effective Wednesday until further notice.
* Private events on city facilities are cancelled effective Wednesday until further notice - fees and deposits for the facility rentals will be refunded or applied toward a rescheduled event.
* The peace officers, city of Brownsville health inspectors, code enforcement/ordinance officers/inspectors, traffic specialists and Brownsville fire marshal are authorized to enforce the order.
A violation of the order is a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500.
The measures will remain in place until March 24, 2020.
20 comments:
How many will residents will decide to move back to Matamoros? LOL
Great news good for the mayor to stand up and do the right thing about this virus. Need to sent inspectors to all day care center because they will not comply.
Now if only SPI will make the RIGHT DECISION
now we need the county judge to stand up to SPI if they don't close the bridge
Close down the HI-WAY 77 Flea Market!
Close down Downtown Bars.
Close down TSC.
Shut down Southmost.
I love how the Cameron county health department has removed the "case count" for the county from their website. It was posted when I looked ~1245 (no confirmed cases - 10 tested, 4 negative, 6 pending). As of 1600 the count is gone.
Top left was county count, top right Texas count, bottom left country count, and bottom right world map.
http://www.cameroncounty.us/publichealth/index.php/coronavirus/
Federal government latest: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday, “Americans need cash now,” as the government is considering sending Americans checks in the next two weeks.
- Juan, you don't work & pay federal taxes, so you WILL NOT get a check.
Without neighboring Matamoros doing the same as Brownsville.....Brownsville's plan is useless. Work with neighboring communities before you announce your Grand Plans, Mendez!
Yanno, we twiddled our thumbs while Brown children were being ripped from their parents and put in cages. At least it wasn't our kids, right? And we are so busy.
The Pandemic Office KNEW and warned of this pandemic and were ready to react when it broke. When Donald Trump ( maybe Jared Kushner?) closed the US Pandemic Office last year, he showed the same mentality as sending men, women and children to gas ovens.
We have our Hitler.
Thrilled to see MittRomney proposing $1,000 checks for all Americans. This would [be] a critical floor of social insurance for hundreds of millions of Americans and would help the economy rebound more quickly when we are past the coronavirus lockdown phase.”
The money probably can’t go out in two weeks, as the White House proposed. In 2008, it took about two months to get the checks to people, notes Mattie Duppler, a fellow at the right-leaning National Taxpayers Union. But she said it’s reasonable that the money could start going out in April.
The Internal Revenue Service has many people’s direct-deposit information, given that close to 90 percent of people filed their tax returns online last year. Money could be delivered even faster to a lot of the hardest-hit people if it were sent via Social Security payments to the elderly or via the Electronic Benefit Transfer debit cards that government aid recipients already have.
Advice: Spend it to help the economy.
SPEND IT...
Stupid they'll never move back idiota eres un pendejo bien hecho guey...
The Brownsville Welfare Nation will have to feed their own children with their Lone Star card...daddy won’t be able to buy his beer and dope using the “two for one” concept on the street. Listen Mexicans, the schools are not here to raise your children; maybe you should stop having them.
I will continue to work for free states the Scumbag Rene Oliveira whiskey is a great sanitizer.
Health department explains coronavirus testing
Please explain why you are sooooooooo fat and how the citizens can avoid being FAT that's what you need to esplaain piche joto
Unhealthy health dept fat head please get fired or dismissed or quit or kicked out or just disappear usless fatso
Anonymous @ 5:53;
WOW. REALLY? What do children have to do with the immediate threat? Do you know ANYTHING about this pandemic? Who it most affects? Who is generally safe? People that WORK would benefit first from Trumps proposed program. I don't like him as a person OR as our president, but the idea seems sound. WHO THE HELL says 'two for one' on the street? You watch too much Law and Order. Viruses don't give two shits if you're white, brown, yellow, or purple. They don't care about imaginary lines drawn on maps. Buckle up, buttercup, we 'Mexicans' have one thing going for us that many cultures don't: a deep respect for our elders and the wisdom they hold. So, we take care of them and will do what we have to to keep ourselves and our families safe. You want tribalism? We ARE the indigenous tribe, asswipe. We learned how to protect ourselves after you did this to us the first time. We've been through biological warfare before, culturally, and we'll live on. Better genes, see. We're more adapted to this environment this time. We are the best of YOU and the best of us, genetically. Good luck, honky, I hope you've culturally adjusted enough to be accepted by us.
Here's the thing, though. We accept other cultures. Unfortunately, we don't always accept our own. We shy away from our heritage. But that's our thing. Not yours. May the odds ever be in your favor. Asshole.
The second death in Texas related to COVID-19 was announced Tuesday, hours after Austin joined other major cities statewide in closing bars and restaurant dining rooms to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Close all the bars do it now close all the day-care centers NOW, sent officers to inspect them otherwise they won't close.
@Anonymous @ 5:53
Cockroach europeans have alway infected the world and spread corruption and racism. Cockroach eruropean whites are the scum of this world and just maybe the universe. And then there are the cocos wanna be whites and they never will be, get with the program pinches cocos...
Old vs young white vs black gringo vs Mexican rich vs poor God vs no god , You get it finally something that doesn't give a shit who you are or what your politics are so take a good look around and watch how people react to this crap then when it is over don't forget who bent you over when you needed some help and I' m not talking about money help money will soon buy you nothing that you need your ability to keep your family together in one piece
March 18, 2020 at 7:20 AM
Wrong will never be right regardless, history will NEVER be forgotten specially where there is no justice and the guilty are glorifed and treated as your savior. TAKE THAT TO YOUR BANK and don't forget to bend over
Your are beyond idiotaism. at 7:20pm
Hey you at 9:52am did you think they could bring the world to its knees this quick. We r the idiots
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