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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 6, 2021 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-438 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:8.E. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Fran Robustelli <br />City Manager <br />BY:City Council <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Staff Report for City of San Leandro City Council Urgency ORDINANCE to <br />Amend Both the Urgency Ordinance and Regular Ordinance Related to Grocery <br />Workers Hazard Pay so that they Terminate on July 29, 2021 <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Pass an Urgency Ordinance that Amends Ordinances No. 2021-001 and No. 2021-002, which <br />defines the end of the effectiveness of both the urgency and regular ordinances to be July 29, <br />2021. <br />BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY <br />On February 16, 2021, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2021-001, which was an <br />urgency ordinance establishing an immediate requirement for grocery stores to provide premium <br />pay, also known as “hazard pay”, to grocery workers, to compensate for the substantial risks, <br />efforts, and expenses they are undertaking to provide essential services in a safe and reliable <br />manner during the COVID-19 emergency. On March 1, 2021, the City Council approved <br />Ordinance No. 2021-002, which was a regular ordinance establishing a requirement for grocery <br />stores to provide hazard pay to grocery workers. The ordinances require large grocery stores to <br />provide hazard pay until the later of 120 days from the effective date of the ordinances, the date <br />Alameda County reaches the Minimal (yellow) tier under the State’s Blueprint for a Safer <br />Economy, or such time as all covered employees, as defined in the ordinances, are vaccinated, <br />excluding those covered employees who are prevented from receipt of vaccination by disability or <br />sincerely held religious beliefs. At the time the Ordinances were adopted, it was clearly uncertain <br />when vaccinations would be available to the general population beyond frontline emergency <br />workers, healthcare workers, and other essential workers. Grocery stores were deemed an <br />essential business sector, such that grocery store workers were also essential workers, who <br />could also receive the vaccine ahead of the general population. Because of the uncertainty during <br />February and March 2021 regarding vaccination availability, the City Council included a <br />vaccination requirement in its grocery workers hazard pay ordinance to incentivize covered <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/1/2021 <br />1371