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Mayor Romero Declares Local Emergency

Mayor Romero made the following statement declaring a local emergency and announcing a new set of actions the City of Tucson will be taking to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and preserve public health:
“This morning, after consulting with business stakeholders, the City Attorney, and City Manager, I have made the determination that it is in the best interest of maintaining public health to suspend dine-in services in restaurants and food courts, and transition to delivery/pick-up only services. Bars, gyms, and other specific venues stated in the proclamation where groups of people congregate are directed to be closed through the end of the month.”

“My top priority, above all else, is to protect public health. This is a painful decision that I do not take lightly. Several restaurants have already stopped dine-in service and transitioned to all drive through and curb-side pick-up.”
“I want to reiterate that food being served by our restaurants is safe. It is the congregation of individuals in a dine-in setting that is unsafe.”

“At this time, the best thing we can do is come together as a community and take care of each other. We’re all in this together. We will get through this.”
In addition, Mayor Romero has ordered the following actions:
● All service counters and lobbies within city buildings, including Ward offices and City Hall, will be closed through the end of March. The City will be continuing services and operations electronically. For more information, please visit tucsonaz.gov
● There will be no interruption in trash, recycling, landfill, or water services
● All evictions on city-owned public housing will be suspended through the end of April
● There will be no water shutoffs through the end of April.

This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2020.

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20 replies on “Mayor Romero Shutters Tucson Restaurants, Bars, Food Courts, Gyms and More as of 8 p.m. Tonight Except for Takeout Service”

  1. Was she joined BY Phoenix or did she JOIN Phoenix? Hysteria is also contagious. We still only have four cases in an area of over one million people. Notice they did keep election places open.???

    Make sure everybody gets a roll of toilet paper.

  2. I applaud this move. We have to protect the most vulnerable among us.
    The way a virus spreads is very basic Bio 101 stuff. Prevention is the only responsible course of action.

  3. We do NOT only have four cases. We have four cases for whom testing was available and is complete.

  7. We’ve lost our collective minds. What a stupid thing to do. We are closing down our economy over a rather mild virus. Why don’t we close down every flu season then? Unreal.

  8. Typical government over reach ! They only care about how they look to their cronies ! This hurts small businesses the most and the people who are employed there ! Is the mayor gonna give up her paycheck, of course not !! Business and public should be able to self regulate ! This is tyranny pure and simple !! What constitutional rights will they take next ????

  9. Pardon me while I put on my tin foil hat, but are we under martial law? How can governors and mayors bankrupt businesses to limit a flu bug that only kills the most health-comprised Americans? Our fruitful economy only works when we people spend money. The ruling elite want us scared and dependent on big government for salvation. Is it time for the uprising?

  10. PEOPLE – Get your heads together. We are not at war there is no Zombie Apocolypse, buildings are still standing and 99 .99999 percent of us are fine. Go on with your lives and remain calm. As someone who has lived the last 60 years plus I’ve seen gas lines, sugar and meat shortages, 2000 K, and other things that turned out to be non-factors. Be smart don’t hoard, wash your hands and you will be fine.

    God Bless America and the World!

  11. What a coupla nitwits. This on top of the REALLY stupid whining about a flag is part of the new city agenda. How about governing smarter.

  12. City flags should be flown at half mast as common sense has suffered a fatal heart attack. Welcome to the era of fear. Will you fall for it?

  13. Mayor Romero has done nothing but damage Tucson as mayor and council woman. Tucson has a very shallow economic pool and she just pulled the stopper.

    I call for her immediate resignation!

    I also want Kelly Ward to resign as head of Republician party of AZ. For failing to provide a candidate for the citizens of Tucson.

  14. It’s not Kelly’s fault. A republican will not win in Pima County or COT until local voters accept responsibility for electing the boobs they do. Look at how long it took to start road repairs. Democrats have had too much power. For far too long.

    The left called Trump a racist for building a wall and stopping flights from China.

    He now looks a hell of a lot smarter than the do nothing big mouth critics. There could be thousands headed through Mexico to get to our free health care.

  15. Screw what the liberals think or say. Mayor, has your dumbass considered what the impact will be to a lot of local family owned restaurants? How about their employees?

    I expect democrats to not think things through, but to have a clueless dumbass mayor that clueless is going to be a disaster to our own local businesses.

    When this hits these restaurants and sadly some will close, you democrats will own this.

    Don’t even try doing your typical tactic and blame President Trump. You; the democrat citizens will own this along with our corrupt mayor.

  16. If no one noticed this virus is spreading fast and Its killing our elders quickly. Im sure if your under 50 your not worried about it but think of your parents who are older. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for acting like 2 year olds. And im sorry to local restaurant owners but if two weeks of no dine in business is going to shut you down for good your not doing very well in the first place. I always use local businesses as much as possible as they need our support. Dont turn this into a political debate try searching this virus in other places everyone is shuting down dining in. Not just tucson.

  18. New reports show 1/3 of those hospitalized are between 20-50. Info is changing so fast, don’t believe much for long.

  19. Anyone who thinks this is political hoax please look at what the Italians wish they could tell themselves 10 days ago. https://youtu.be/o_cImRzKXOs

    Sure, it’s rough to have the city shut down. But we’ve got to do this before our hospitals are overwhelmed and health care workers have to make decisions as to who gets treated and who gets left to die. This is what China and Italy had to do to contain the spread of this virus. Why should we be any different? Because we’re exceptional Americans? Viruses don’t care about that.

  20. I appreciate the restraint that Gov Deucy and our Mayor Romero have shown so far re: closures and essential services, etc. When we look at Italy, France, it seems inevitable that there will be executive orders compelling Arizonans to observe similar precautions as we have seen imposed in New York and in California. Inevitable because we are faced with the dreadful pragmatics of viral infection at exponential rates; the delay between infection and expression makes this hard to track. Social distancing just works. Mayor Romero has done the right thing for all of us.

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