Ord 2021-011 Urgency Ord nonpmt of rent

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commercial evictions due to specified financial burdens caused by COVID-19 will expire on September 30, 2021; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to align the City's commercial eviction moratorium with the expiration of the Governor's Executive Order N-28-20 authorizing local jurisdictions to enact commercial eviction moratoriums, and finds that it is in the public interest to align with the timelines of the Governor's order, as amended from time to time, for consistency, certainty, and efficiency; and WHEREAS, San Leandro Municipal Code section 1-1-345(b) authorizes the City Council to introduce and adopt an ordinance it declares to be necessary as an emergency measure to preserve the public peace, health, and safety at one and the same meeting; and WHEREAS, this Ordinance is intended to promote consistency and certainty for commercial tenants and property owners in San Leandro by aligning the City's ordinance with the expiration of the protections authorized by Executive Order N-28-20; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that regulating the relations between commercial landlords and tenants is essential to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the City and thereby serves the public peace, health, welfare and safety; and WHEREAS, an urgency ordinance that is effective immediately is necessary to avoid the immediate threat to public peace, health, welfare, and safety as failure to adopt this urgency ordinance could result in the avoidable displacement due to confusion regarding the expiration of the protections for commercial tenants authorized by Executive Order N-28-20. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Findings The City Council of the City of San Leandro finds that all Recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein by reference. SECTION 2. Urgency Findings The City Council of the City of San Leandro hereby finds that there is a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare and a need for immediate preservation of the public peace, health, welfare and safety that warrants this urgency ordinance, which is based upon the facts stated in the recitals above, and in the staff report dated September 7, 2021, as well as any oral and written testimony at the September 7, 2021 City Council meeting. This Ordinance is declared by the City Council to be an urgency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, welfare, and safety. SECTION 3. Amendment to Commercial Eviction Moratorium The City Council hereby amends Section 5 of Ordinance No. 2020-003 to read as follows (with additions underlined an deletions in stfikethfoug ): "SECTION 5. Effective Date ORDINANCE NO. 2021-011 2