REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: JERRY P. DYER, Mayor
Office of Mayor & City Manager
BY: GREGORY A. BARFIELD, Assistant City Manger
Office of Mayor & City Manager
SUBJECT
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Actions pertaining to COVID-19 emergency:
1. WORKSHOP - Discussion of Emergency Order (EO) 2021-02 (Modified COVID-19 Emergency Order); EO 2020-09 (Employee COVID-19 Self-Screening); EO 2020-10 (Employee Leave Pay); EO 2020-15 (Telework by City Employees)
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RECOMMENDATION
The Mayor is recommending the termination of the local emergency related to COVID-19 and moving to a more long term endemic strategy that addresses Cal-OHSA, California Department of Public Health and local guidance regarding ensuring the ongoing safety of our employees and the residents of the city based on improving conditions. The emergency proclamation with an Administrative Order on COVID-19
This Workshop will allow for the for the entire Council to hear the status of the pandemic and allow for discussion on the Administrative Order as well as Council's Emergency Resolutions and Emergency Ordinances.
The Administration intends to return with the proposed ordinance at the April 28, 2022 City Council meeting for adoption.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
After two years of living under a local emergency order as well as state and national emergency orders, our city has spent millions of dollars on testing, masks, sanitization, cleaning supplies, plexiglass, and technology to allow for remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mayor now is recommending the termination of the local emergency order based on better conditions in local case counts, hospitalizations of COVID positive persons including those needing ICU bed space and the development of three vaccines to help slow the rates of death from COVID-19.
Lifting the local Emergency Proclamation will eliminate all active Emergency Orders including EO 2021-02 (Modified COVID-19 Emergency Order); EO 2020-09 (Employee COVID-19 Self-Screening); EO...
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