Shasta County Supervisors spent an entire day hearing from community members about whether they should find a workaround to keep businesses open, against the state order.
As cases climb -- today, county supervisors spent an entire day -- hearing from community members about whether they should find a workaround to keep businesses open -- against a state order.
We just got off the phone with supervisor les baugh.
He says the state gave a tentative commitment to reducing the wait time to get back into the red tier to just two weeks.
He also says the state changed the purple tier to allow personal services to have indoor service as long as they keep socially distanced and follow other safety guidelines.
Action news now reporter ana torrea -- in shasta county with what the communtiy has to say.
Trt ana torrea atorreanews people on both sides--for and against the reopening plan-- coming out to the special meeting held by the shasta county board of supervisors.
Take vo* at an hours long, meeting, dozens of people pleaded to the shasta supervisors to reject newsom's reopening plan... take nats sot trt:10 and the pressure being put on your by our tyrannical governor.
Do not let us fall into the purple tier over a virus that most of would not even know existed.
Take vo* while others urged the board to follow the state's guidelines.
Take nats sot trt:07 this is a time to keep egos aside and value the careers scientists, who are giving us the steps to help keep our community safe take vo* one by one... each person spoke their 3 minutes.
Take nats sot trt:14 so what i'm going to ask of you is to be delightful difficult, so that guy who sits in that place where i want to be, who makes these decisions for all of us, you make his life unsettled.
((butt to)) take nats sot trt:08 and he didn't have choice, the choice was made for him by others by their choices and he got covid take vo* all 5 supervisors listened.
Outside the chambers, more people also waiting to speak.
Some speakers feeling frustrated with the new restrictions.
Take sot* trt:04 melissa magana spoke at board of supervisors meeting going into purple tier is going to destroy businesses even more than they are now take vo* while others concerned, about the consequences with not following the state's plan.
Take sot* trt:06 david robbins spoke at board of supervisors meeting i think if we followed all the protocols in the first place, we would've already been reopened right now and we would've done it the right way.
Ana tag* trt ana torrea atorreanews not everyone could come in and sit inside the chambers.
That's because about 19 people from the public can sit in during the meeting.
Reporting in redding, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.
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The state of California reversed its ruling on putting Shasta County in the purple tier.
