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<br /> <br />..Title <br />AN ORDINANCE of the City of San Leandro City Council To Extend the Time Period for Repayment <br />of Unpaid Rent that Accumulated During the City’s Residential Eviction Moratorium to One Year <br /> <br />..Body <br />The City Council of the City of San Leandro does FIND as follows: <br />WHEREAS, a severe outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus named <br />“SARS-CoV-2,” and the disease it causes has been named “coronavirus disease 2019,” <br />abbreviated COVID-19 (“COVID-19”); and <br />WHEREAS, on March 1, 2020, the Health Officer of Alameda County declared a public health <br />emergency throughout the County of Alameda due to COVID-19; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on March 4, 2020, the Governor of California proclaimed a state of emergency <br />throughout California related to COVID-19; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, due to an escalating increase in the number of cases in Alameda <br />County, under San Leandro Municipal Code section 3-4-124, the Director of Emergency Services <br />proclaimed a local emergency and a state of emergency related to COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, at its regular meeting the San Leandro City Council ratified the <br />Director of Emergency Services’ proclamation of a local emergency and a state of emergency <br />related to COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N- <br />28-20 suspending any provision of state law that would preempt or otherwise restrict a local <br />government’s exercise of its police powers to impose substantive limitations on residential or <br />commercial evictions related to COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2020-003 as an urgency ordinance on March <br />23, 2020 to establish a moratorium on residential and commercial evictions due to nonpayment <br />of rent for tenants where the failure to pay rent is from income loss resulting from COVID-19; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency is set to expire on February 28, <br />2023; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council intends to terminate the local emergency concurrently with the <br />expiration of the Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency; and <br />WHEREAS, the eviction moratorium enacted by Ordinance No. 2020-003 expires upon the <br />expiration of both the Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency and the City Council’s