Resolution 15664CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15664
AFFIRMING THE CONTINUATION OF THE DECLARATION OF THE
EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC
WHEREAS, the Alameda Municipal Code, Chapter 2-24, defines a local
emergency as "the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme
peril to safety of persons and property within a jurisdiction"; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 8630 empowers the City Council to
proclaim a local emergency by ordinance when the City of Alameda is affected by a public
calamity and/or serious threat to the public health, safety and welfare; and
WHEREAS, Section 3-12 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council, with a 4/5
vote, to adopt as an urgency measure an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health or safety upon a finding of facts constituting the urgency thereof; and
WHEREAS, on March 17, 2020 the Council made findings that due to the COVID-
19 pandemic, conditions of extreme peril to the health, safety and welfare of persons have
arisen in the City of Alameda and, based thereon, adopted an urgency ordinance
(Ordinance No. 3267) declaring a local emergency existing in the City of Alameda as a
result of the CO VI D-19 pand,emic; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 3267 adopted various measures in response to the
local emergency; and
WHEREAS, on April 7, 2020 the Council made findings that due to the COVID-
19 pandemic, the March 17 declaration should be extended for the duration of the State
of California's COVID-19 Emergency Declaration; and
WHEREAS, the State of California's COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency
Declaration remains in effect at this time; and
WHEREAS, between March and June of 2020, the City Council has engaged in
frequent and regular review of the COVID-19 local emergency, at least on a monthly
basis, based on staff presentations and Council actions on numerous items relating to
the local emergency; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 8630(c) requires that, "the governing
body shall review the need for continuing the local emergency at least once every 60 days
until the governing body terminates the local emergency"; and
WHEREAS, adoption of this resolution is exempt from review under the
California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, Section 15378 (not a project) and
Section 15061 (b)(3) [no significant environmental impact].
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ALAMEDA DOES RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE, AND ORDER THE
FOLLOWING:
Section 1. The City Council finds and determines that the foregoing recitals to be
true and correct and hearby incorporates this resolution.
Section 2. The City Council declares that the continuation of the previously
declared local emergency is appropriate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and that
this declaration of local emergency shall continue until the State's declaration of
emergency relating to COVID-19 is rescinded, or sooner should it be appropriate to lift
the local emergency declaration prior to State action, and staff shall continue to update
the Council on the status of the local emergency declaration every 60 days, consistent
with Government Code Section 8630(c).
Section 3. This resolution is effective immediately upon its passage and
adoption.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on the 16th day of June, 2020 by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft-5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 17th day of June, 2020.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Yibin Shen, City Attorney
City of Alameda
Lara Weisiger, C Clerk
City of Alameda