Biloxi mayor talks plans to reopen the city

The City of Biloxi is one step closer to business as usual.

The city of biloxi is one step- closer to "business as usual."

As the statewide coronavirus- number continues to - rise, - harrison county has - comparitively seen a steady - decline in cases since april- 14th, leading to more talk of - re- - opening biloxi.

- currently, biloxi mayor andrew- "fofo" gilich and the bilox city- council are evaluating each - sector - restaurants, - hair salons, casinos, and churc- organizations - - to find out how those employees- can return to "some form of business" at this time.

Mayor gilich says we're not - there yet, but he's hopeful - we'll get there safely and- logically by peak tourism seaso- on the coast.

- - "it's critical that we open.

Fo the citizens- too, but for our tourism- industry.

For our gaming- industry.

The gaming industry - benefits the whole county and - each city within the county.

So- there's a lot at stake, - not just for biloxi, but for th- whole county and especially the- state.

We've got 8- casinos in biloxi.

We've got- 6,000 hotels rooms in biloxi.

- we're gonna be the- first responders, so we need- some consideration and- understanding with the- whole type of intersective- industry.

Our opportunity is no- to do it the right way.

- the rest of the country is gonn- be looking forward to a place - thats safe and gonna- be able to have a good time, an- that's our plan to make that- happen.

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