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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/26/2020 1:26 AM, Alameda County
      Central Railroad Society wrote:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Message From: Gary Barbano  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gary_barbano@yahoo.com">gary_barbano@yahoo.com</a>



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          <div> On Saturday, April 25, 2020, 7:29:26 PM PDT, Alameda
            County Central Railroad Society <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:accrs@mail.accrs.org"><accrs@mail.accrs.org></a>
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                <p>All,<br clear="none">
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                <p>We don't need to have a discussion about accessing
                  the grounds.  It's simple. I call them again and see
                  if accessibility has changed.  End of discussion. 
                  Starting Monday, they are having a drive thru COVID 19
                  testing entering at Gate 12.  Access may be no further
                  than the parking area, but maybe there is an opening
                  here.  I'll let everyone know what they say when I
                  call them this week concerning access.  I don't think
                  there is much need for a Board of Directors meeting
                  early or a business meeting for that matter.  The only
                  thing to report will be whether we access or not. 
                  There is nothing we can do related to our facility
                  without access.  We can talk about it until we are
                  blue in the face, but it changes nothing until we have
                  access.  Editorial comment: IMHO, <font size="3"
                    face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font
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                        face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Newsom
                          has taken unnecessarily draconian measures. 
                          He's not directly involved with our access to
                          the grounds, but there's no good reason 5-10
                          of us can't access the grounds on a Friday
                          evening.  If Newsom does what he says, there
                          will be massive personal and business
                          bankruptcies across the state.  Like I said,
                          IMHO.  <br clear="none">
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Guys, I do not want to
                        be a downer, but for this summer at least, the
                        probability of structured events of more than 10
                        or maybe 20 or at most 50 people is probably
                        very unlikely. The fair is hundreds of thousands
                        total, tens of thousands per day, it is not
                        going to happen.</span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">I went over this topic
                        on the NMRA Coast Division meetup last Saturday
                        and with the Coast Division Board before we
                        cancelled the June 7th Coast Division
                        event/auction in San Leandro. The key is the
                        answer Governor Newsome gives below to the
                        reporter's question during his opening up press
                        conference on April 14 about how much things
                        will "look different" this year for summer
                        events and schools in the fall.  The text below
                        is from the transcript of the press conference
                        (my highlights in bold).  Read the highlighted
                        parts ("negligible at best", "hundreds,
                        thousands, …….. is not in the cards", and  "
                        June, July, August, it is unlikely"). Now decide
                        how much we want to bet there will be
                        300,000-500,000 people over 18 days at the
                        fairgrounds starting in mid-June....... there
                        are major concerns about having 30 kids in a
                        classroom in the fall.  How do you social
                        distance at a county fair? Plus, how many of you
                        would be excited about taking your families to
                        the fair this summer? I personally would bet
                        there is zero chance of a fair this year,
                        probably not any realistic chance for either of
                        the Good Guys summer events as well. Hopefully,
                        by the fall, there will be some realistic and
                        proven high positive outcome treatment options
                        so larger events can return. </span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">As to access to the
                        ACCRS facility on the Fairgrounds to retrieve
                        members personal property, unfortunately left
                        there due to the unanticipated velocity and
                        radical closure impacts of the pandemic
                        shut-down, we should discuss how we can
                        potentially get access next week during our
                        Friday Night meetup standing. I am going to
                        propose we use next Friday Zoom Meetup as our
                        on-line business meeting. If there is a desire
                        to have a pre-general meetup ACCRS board meetup
                        we can do that. </span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Unfortunately, based on
                        the Newsome stuff below and the relative large
                        size of events the fair must host for practical
                        profitability and to justify opening and having
                        staff return exceeding what the governor is
                        anticipating, I personally doubt they will open
                        the fairgrounds this summer at all. Therefore,
                        if ACCRS members want to gain access to the
                        building to get items, we should develop an
                        "access proposal" for Gary to present to the
                        fair. Perhaps we can propose "staggering" our
                        individual access to the building over an
                        extended period of days/weeks (we can credit the
                        governor) so social distancing or sharing common
                        spaces would not be an issue with access to the
                        closed space. Ask to have some time(s) so Gary
                        can assign a slot to a member to get in for 30
                        minutes or an hour to access their property.  We
                        can do two or three pre-set times every week if
                        enough member want access.  See if they will
                        agree to a proposal. Probably a one shot access
                        for each of us though. Bring your thoughts
                        Friday.</span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">From Governor Newsome
                        June 14th Press Conference on re-opening
                        California - during the Q&A (time marks are
                        minutes into the conference):</span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Kathleen Ronayne:
                        (49:34)</span></font></div>
                  <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font size="2"
                      face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Hi
                        governor. So I understand that you’re not giving
                        a key timeline of when these things are going to
                        change, but more broadly you’ve outlined pretty
                        radical changes in what our daily life looks
                        like in California, even as we start to lift
                        these orders. So we’ve got some pretty big
                        holidays coming up into the summer, Memorial
                        day, July 4th, I mean, walk me through, if
                        things go to plan, if we’re able to meet some of
                        these measures, how do those big holidays, how
                        does the summer look different for Californians?
                        And following on that how does the school year
                        in the fall look different for California
                        students if we meet all these measures and we’re
                        able to start doing some of what you’ve talked
                        about?</span></font></div>
                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Governor Gavin Newsom:
                        (50:17)</span></font></div>
                  <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font size="2"
                      face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I
                        appreciate it. Thank you for the question
                        because you’ve also offered me an opportunity to
                        say something that I wasn’t clear about in the
                        initial presentation, and that is as it relates
                        to mass gatherings. The <b>prospect of mass
                          gatherings is negligible at best until we get
                          to herd immunity and we get to a vaccine</b>.
                        So <b>large scale events that bring in
                          hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of
                          strangers all together across every
                          conceivable difference, health and otherwise
                          is not in the cards</b> based upon our current
                        guidelines and current expectations, things can
                        change radically, and we of course can have
                        therapeutics at scale, the kind of community
                        testing at scale, the serology tests at scale
                        and capacity to get vaccines earlier than we
                        anticipated. That can change that dynamic. So I
                        want to caution my own words in that context,
                        but when you <b>suggest June, July, August, it
                          is unlikely</b>.</span></font></div>
                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Governor Gavin Newsom:
                        (52:03)</span></font></div>
                  <div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font size="2"
                      face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;">As I
                        mentioned to you, we’ve got these teams of
                        people and some of them are more built out than
                        others. The area that we will be building out
                        much more robustly is the school space to very
                        specifically answer that question. We have
                        hypothecated, since you want to offer that lens
                        perhaps of imagination, let me hypothecate with
                        you <b>scenarios where in physically
                          constrained environments where practicing
                          physical distancing within the school come
                          this fall may be challenged, we can
                          conceivably stagger the individual students to
                          come in as cohorts in the morning, some in the
                          afternoon</b>.</span></font></div>
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                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Phil Edholm</span></font></div>
                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Office 925-264-9420</span></font></div>
                  <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;">Mobile 408-832-5618</span></font></div>
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                        On Behalf Of Alameda County Central Railroad
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                        Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 3:38 PM<br
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