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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING THE TERMINATION OF THE LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED BY PROCLAMATION 2020-01 AND RATIFIED BY RESOLUTION NO. 2020-09, RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 2020-09 AND RESOLUTION NO. 2021-24
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DEPARTMENT: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE/CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE
PRESENTED BY: KIMBERLY HALL BARLOW, CITY ATTORNEY
CONTACT INFORMATION: KIMBERLY HALL BARLOW, CITY ATTORNEY, (714) 754-5399
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2023-XX to terminate the City's State of Emergency related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and certain related emergency actions.
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BACKGROUND:
A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China in December 2019. Since then, on January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. Further, on of March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization elevated the public health emergency to the status of a pandemic. On January 31, 2020, former United States Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared this global outbreak a public health emergency for the United States. The County of Orange declared a local emergency and a local health emergency on February 26, 2020. The State of California proclaimed a State of Emergency on March 4, 2020. On March 12, 2020 the City Manager, as the City's Director of Emergency Services, issued Proclamation No. 2020-01 declaring a local emergency to protect public health and slow transmission of COVID-19. By Resolution 2020-09, the City Council ratified the Proclamation on March 13, 2020, which remains in effect.
On March 13, 2020, the President of the United States of America declared a national emergency.
The State's declared State of Emergency continued throughout 2021, 2022 and through February 28, 2023, when the State Emergency for California ended by order of Governor N...
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