City of Biloxi, MS Biloxi A to Z, 28 Sep 2020

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From YouTube: Biloxi Covid 19 Update 9 28 2020

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Changes to the water bill as well as to the garbage, trash and recycling pickups (which are once a week not twice weekly. Apologies for the mistake(s)), Real Men Wear Pink, and the latest coronavirus cases.

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Hello, I'm cecilia davis, walton, the public affairs specialist for the city of biloxi, I'm here to deliver today's be prepared report. This is being recorded on monday september. The 28th 2020 at 1 45 in the afternoon we'll have the latest coronavirus numbers in a minute. But first the city of biloxi's new fiscal year begins october 1st, which is thursday.

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There has not been an increase in the property tax rate in biloxi in 28 years and mayor gilledge and the biloxi city council say that's not going to change this year. The.

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New budget does.

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Not include an increase in the city property tax rate, however, we must make you aware of minimal increases in your monthly water sewer and garbage fees. You may not even notice them the water.

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Is going up by 2 percent for the city's 15 000 water customers? For those.

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Use between four thousand and six thousand gallons of water a month, which is the majority of the city customers, your bill.

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By three cents per thousand gallons of water used a month, your monthly garbage recycling and trash pickup is going up in biloxi as well. The fee is increasing by 30 cents, a month which brings it to 15 and 10 cents a month for the twice weekly service.

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This increase will amount to less than five dollars a year for the average biloxi resident and, to be honest, they are essentially pass along fees to cover the cost of providing the service. The biloxi order bill by the.

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Is about half of what you pay in neighboring cities, and now this.

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Joining me now is state representative kevin felcher of biloxi I've been hearing. You talk a lot about pink. What's up with that, absolutely.

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Well, I am fortunate to be a real men, we're a pink ambassador for 2020 and pink signifies breast cancer awareness, and so what we're doing as ambassadors, all 29 of us is raising funds and awareness to help fight and cure breast cancer.

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Do you know anyone who has been a victim of breast cancer? Absolutely.

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My grandmother was, she had a mastectomy and actually had a reoccurrence of breast cancer. She did beat it. She is a survivor, unfortunately, my dad's sister, my aunt margaret, did not. She lost her life.

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Due to breast cancer, so this is something that hits really close to.

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Home for you, it's extremely personal to me, cancer in general and breast cancer.

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As well so as part of your role as ambassador, what have you been doing? Well, I've been working.

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Hard to try to raise funds, that's a huge thing. We all know that it takes money to fund research, to fund awareness, but.

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Raising awareness talking about breast cancer, doing social media posts, doing events.

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These sort of things: what can people do if they want to become involved in this? This uh this month-long initiative sure.

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So you can go to.

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And look up real men, wear pink 2020 you'll find the american cancer society site on there and you can participate in a number of ways. We have several events coming up. We have a luminary event where you can sponsor a memory of a loved one through buying a luminary bag. These will be placed at city halls in biloxi, gulfport long beach and ocean springs, and they will be in memory of your loved one. They will be personalized and so for just ten dollars and helping a good cause.

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You also can come out and experience what's going to be a beautiful event that way, kenny glavin and I councilman city of biloxi will be having a pickleball tournament on october, the 24th that's going to be at, I believe, 9 and uh that's going to be at the biloxi pickleball courts and we're looking.

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To that, if you just want to come out and participate and play, you can or spectate we'd love to have you out.

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I'm gathering that there's some kind of rivalry going on between you and brother glavin well I'll tell.

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You what if it's a robbery, vincent it's a friendly robbery, he and I are leading the pack in fundraising. Thank god right now, he's number one, I'm number two and I'm trying to catch him and we've toggled places back and forth, but we're having fun with this and it's for a good cause and uh we're loving it.

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If somebody goes on facebook, they just look up kevin felcher. They.

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Can look up kevin, felser and they'll see all kind of stuff about my real men wear pink campaign, hey and I'll plug liven right now they can go. Look for kenny, glivin and they'll, find his room and wear a pink campaign. I prefer they find fell, shirt.

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I got a feeling when glavin sees this he's going to be coming down, because you know he likes cameras, he well. That's the rumor.

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That's the remember I was just gonna say thank you for having me first.

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I appreciate it: let's turn serious for a minute, not that this is not serious but what's happening in the state legislature. State.

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Legislature, right now we're moving toward meeting to close out the session thursday and friday, and then I believe, we'll sign. He died then next week, if I'm not mistaken,.

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If somebody wants to email, you sure it's.

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Kay felser f-e-l-s-h-e-r at house.ms.gov.

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All right there on facebook, kevin fell short.

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Yes, sir, you find me all day long. My phone number is 228-365-4747 say that again, 228-365-4747.

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I want to say that that is very brave of you to do and you're doing an excellent job representing biloxi and the entire gulf coast. Well,.

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Thank you once again, I'm proud to be there. Thank.

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Okay, now today's coronavirus numbers today, the mississippi state department of health reports that in the past 24 hours, 190 new cases of the coronaviputs were identified and since friday 1017 new cases were reported.

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This brings the statewide total to 97 and 49 cases of the coronavirus. Also, in the past 24 hours, two deaths were reported statewide. This brings the total to 2921 deaths. Statewide. This chart shows the total number of positive tests statewide, since the crisis began.

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This chart shows a 14-day track on cases statewide in harrison county. The state department reports five positive tests of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. This brings the county-wide total of cases in harrison county to 3888 of the coronavirus and 74 deaths. Here's the 14-day chart for harrison county, which shows the daily average of cases.

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Please continue to do your part to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. We leave you today with some scenic views of the popsbury causeway. Shortly after it opened in 2018.. We'll see you again on friday.

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