{"id":20058,"date":"2023-09-29T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=20058"},"modified":"2023-09-29T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:05:24","slug":"cow-palace-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/cow-palace-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow Palace Arena to become evacuation center in San Mateo County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Thomas Hughes. Bay City News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cow Palace Arena and Event Center in Daly City will receive modifications to enhance its use as an evacuation center for residents and livestock during a local emergency, thanks to a $1 million infusion from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The board made the allocation Tuesday as part of its fall budget adjustments, which included hiring dozens of additional county employees across different departments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stadium, built in 1941, will be further prepared as an evacuation, care and shelter site by modifying the building\u2019s kitchen and dining area, installing permanent generators, storing care supplies and renovating areas for large animals and livestock.<\/span><\/p>\n

The money was included as part of an additional $365.5 million for this year's budget, bringing the county's total budget for 2023-24 to about $4.4 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Supervisor David Canepa said the Cow Palace had housed numerous animals during the CZU wildfires in 2020, when it was activated as an emergency shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cow Palace has proven invaluable during emergencies, most notably during the CZU wildfire, when it became Noah\u2019s Ark for county residents struggling to find shelter for horses, cows, goats and even llamas,\u201d Canepa said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The renovations will include a redesign of the kitchen, freezer and dining room to accommodate a larger number of meals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Care supplies, such as cots, blankets, and comfort kits, will be purchased and stocked in preparation for an emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith this $1 million, the Cow Palace will now be equipped to serve thousands of meals a day and keep the lights on with new emergency generators during power outages,\u201d Canepa said. \u201cThis is another investment in emergency preparedness that highlights the county\u2019s continued commitment to public safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Adjustments to the fiscal year 2023-24 budget included adding a net total of 37 employees to the county staff across various departments, some of whom were already working for the county as temporary workers. That brings the county\u2019s total workforce to 5,805 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the overall increase was driven by the cost of county-covered employee health benefit plans, which rose this year by nearly 14 percent and 9 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Por Thomas Hughes. Bay City News.\u00a0 El Cow Palace Arena and Event Center en Daly City recibir\u00e1 modificaciones para reforzar su uso como centro de evacuaci\u00f3n para residentes y ganado durante una emergencia local, gracias a una inyecci\u00f3n de 1 mill\u00f3n de d\u00f3lares de la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de San Mateo. La junta […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20061,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions\/20061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}