Item 23 - Resolution Declaring the Termination of Local Emergency (COVID-19 Pandemic)

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RESOLUTION 2023-XXX A RESOLUTION OF THE SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL DECLARING THE TERMINATION OF THE PROCLAMATION OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY REGARDING THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC WHEREAS, on January 31, 2020, the United States Department of Public Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency for COVID-19 beginning on January 27, 2020; and WHEREAS, the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020; and WHEREAS, on February 26, 2020, the County of Orange declared a local emergency and a local health emergency to prepare for COVID-19 in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak in Orange County; and WHEREAS, on March 4, 2020, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency related to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States declared a national emergency in response to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, a local emergency, as defined by section 2-643 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code and by California Emergency Services Act Section 8558(c), may be proclaimed upon conditions of disaster or extreme peril, existing or imminently likely, so as to threaten lives and property, and by reason of its magnitude is or is likely to be beyond the control of the available services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the city; and WHEREAS, on March 17, 2020, the Santa Ana City Council adopted a resolution (Resolution No. 2020-016) proclaiming a local emergency due to the conditions or threatened conditions of COVID-19 in the City of Santa Ana, which constitutes an extreme peril of health and safety of persons within the territorial limits of the City and specified that the local emergency shall be deemed to continue to exist until its termination is proclaimed by the City Council; and WHEREAS, during the local emergency, the City Manager, acting as the Director of Emergency Services, was delegated the authority to, among other responsibilities, promulgate ordinances, orders or regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property; and WHEREAS, during the local emergency, the City Manager, acting as the Director of Emergency Services issued various orders associated with the local emergency declaration; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana’s Finance and Management Services Agency submitted to the City Council at regularly scheduled meetings of the City Council quarterly reports of contracts executed by the City Manager; these quarterly reports included contracts entered Resolution No. 2023-XXX Page 1 of 3