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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Please let me know what does the acronym IMHO mean? Thank You Gary B <br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, April 25, 2020, 7:29:26 PM PDT, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs@mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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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 style="background-color: inherit;" size="2" 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,
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<div class="yiv2069851397yqt6256578744" id="yiv2069851397yqtfd54547"><div class="yiv2069851397moz-cite-prefix">On 4/25/2020 5:45 PM, Alameda County
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<pre class="yiv2069851397moz-quote-pre">Message From: Phil Edholm <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2069851397moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:pedholm@pkeconsulting.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pedholm@pkeconsulting.com">pedholm@pkeconsulting.com</a>
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</span></font><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>
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Subject: Re: [Accrs] What does this say about the
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