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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: January 19, 2021 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:20-628 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Fran Robustelli <br />Interim City Manager <br />BY:Tom Liao <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Susan Hsieh <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE:RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Approving Appropriation <br />of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) of General Fund Reserves to <br />Address Business and Community Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic <br />WHEREAS, international, national, state, and local health and governmental authorities <br />are responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus, <br />“SARS-CoV-2,” and the disease it causes which has been named “coronavirus disease 2019,” <br />abbreviated COVID-19, (“COVID-19”); and <br />WHEREAS, on March 4, 2020, the Governor of the State of California declared a state of <br />emergency to make additional resources available, formalize emergency actions already <br />underway across multiple state agencies and departments, and to help the State prepare for a <br />broader spread of COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States of America declared a <br />national emergency and announced that the federal government would make emergency funding <br />available to assist state and local governments in preventing the spread of and addressing the <br />effects of COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the City Council of the City of San Leandro (“City”) <br />ratified the Director of Emergency Service’s Proclamation of Local Emergency due to the <br />outbreak of a novel coronavirus in the City (COVID-19); and <br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the Health Officer of Alameda County issued an Order <br />directing all individuals to shelter in place and requiring essential businesses to implement Social <br />Distancing Protocols (‘Shelter In Place Order’); and <br />WHEREAS, the Health Officer of the County of Alameda has issued revised Shelter In <br />Place Orders on March 31, 2020, May 18, 2020, June 5, 2020, June 18, 2020, October 21, 2020, <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 1/14/2021 <br />134