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Resolution 2020-17RESOLUTION NO. 2020-17 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY RATIFYING AND CONTINUING THE PROCLAMATION OF EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES WHEREAS, the Emergency Services Act, Government Code Section 8630, and Chapter 9 of the Gilroy City Code, Emergency Organi zation and Functions, empower the Director of Emergency Services (City Administrator) to proclaim the e xistence or threatened existence of a local emergency if the Council of the City of Gilroy ("City") is not in session, and require that the City Council take action to ratify the proclamation within seven (7) days thereafter, or the proclamation s hall have no further force or effect; and WHEREAS, pursuant to California Go venunent Code Sections 8680.9 and 8558( c ), a local emergency is a condition of extreme peril to persons or prope1iy proclaimed as such by the governing body of the loca l agency affected by a natural or mamnade disaster; and WHEREAS, the purpose of a local emergency proclamation is to provide extraordinary police powers, immunity for emergency actions, authorize issuance of orders and regulations, and activate pre-established emergency provisions; and WHEREAS, a local emergency proclamation is a prerequisite for requesting s tate or federal assistance; and WHEREAS, conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and prope1iy have arisen within the City, based on the following: 1. A novel coronavirus (Named COVID-19) was first detected in December 2019. 2. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID- 19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. On January 31, 2020 the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services declared a Public Health Emergency. 3. On February 10, 2020, the County of Santa Clara declared a local health emergency and proclaimed a local emergency. 4. On March 9, 2020 the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department took steps to protect the health of the community by issuing an order cancelling all mass gatherings of over 1,000 people and additional reconunendations to slow the spread of the virus, reduce the number of people infected, and, especially, to protect those who are most vulnerable to severe illness. 5. On March 11, 2020 the WHO made the assessment that COVID-19 can be R ESOLUTIO N NO. 2020-17 characterized as a pandemic. 6. On March 13, 2020 the Santa C lara County Office of Education announced that all public schools will close for three weeks; and 7. On March 13 , 2020 the County of Santa Clara took additional steps to protect the health of the community by issuing additional orders limiting gatherings to 100 people and further banning gatherings of 35 to l 00 people unless certain conditions are met to reduce the likelihood of transmission at those events. 8. The City of Gilroy has been responsive and proactive. The City has cancelled programs for senior citizens, postponed agenda items and meetings that are not time- sensitive, cancelled all non-essential travel by City staff and all City-sponsored events likely to result in a possible mass gathering whi le this crisis continues; and WHEREAS, the City Council does h ereby find that the above described conditions of extreme peril did wanant and necessitate the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency in the City; and WHEREAS , California Government Code, Title 2 , Division 1, Chapter 7.5 - California Disaster Assistance Act (CDAA) allows that with the Proclamation of a Local Emergency the City may seek financial assistance and may request reimbursement of the significant expenses inctmed during response, if approved by the Director of the California Office of Emergency Services or ConcutTence or Governor's Proclamation; and WHEREAS, on March 13 , 2020, the Director of Emergency Services i ssued a proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency within the C ity; and WHEREAS, the associated emergency conditions a re on-going and the emergency should not be terminated at thi s time; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Gilroy that: 1. The Proclamation of Existence of a Local Emergency, as issued by the Dire ctor of Emergency Services on March 13 , 2020, is h ereby ratified and confinned. 2. The City Council has reviewed the need for continuing the declaration of local emergency a nd find s based on substantial evidence that the public interest and necess ity require the continuance of the proclamation of local emergency related to COVID-19. 3. Said local emergency shall be deemed to continue to exist until tenninated by the City Council of the City of Gilroy. 4. The Director of Emergency Services is hereby directed to report to the City Council RESOLUTION NO. 2020-1 7 within sixty (60) days on the need for fmiher continuing the local emergency. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting duly held on the 16th day of March, 2020, by the following roll call vote: A YES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BLANKLEY, BRACCO, LEROE-MUNOZ, MARQUES, TOVAR, TUCKER and VELASCO NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Roland Velasco, Mayor RESOLUTION NO. 2020-17 I, SHAWNA FREELS, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 2020-17 is an original resolution, or true and correct copy of a city Resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of said held on Council held on the 16th day of March, 2020, at which meeting a quorum was present. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of Shawna Freels, City Clerk of the (Seal) of March, 2020.