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Agenda Item: 3
1. CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: 1
DATE: December 14, 2021
SUBJECT: TERMINATION OF RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING EXISTENCE OF
A LOCAL EMERGENCY
DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
PRESENTER: Roger Willcox
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council approve a resolution proclaiming the termination of a local emergency.
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to Government Code Section 8630 and Chapter 2.40 of the Santa Clarita Municipal
Code (Ordinance No. 89-6), the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita (City) can proclaim the
existence, or threatened existence, of a local emergency when said City is affected or likely to be
affected by a public calamity.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President declared a National State of Emergency,
by Proclamation 9994, on March 13, 2020.
The Santa Clarita City Council proclaimed the existence of a local emergency within the City on
March 13, 2020.
The declaration of local emergency is no longer necessary, and its termination can be proclaimed
by the City Council.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
Other action as determined by the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT
None by this action.
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ATTACHMENTS
Resolution
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RESOLUTION NO. 21-
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, TERMINATING THE EXISTENCE
OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 8630 provides that a local emergency
may be proclaimed by the governing body of a city; and
WHEREAS, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a severe acute respiratory
illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province,
People's Republic of China (China), and the first case was reported on December 31, 2019, in
China. Symptoms of the virus include fever, cough, and shortness of breath, and infected
individuals have experienced a range of outcomes, from mild sickness to severe illness and
death; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles County proclaimed the existence of a local emergency
beginning on March 4, 2020, due to conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of
persons and property as a result of the introduction of COVID-19, in addition to the Governor of
California declaring a state of emergency; and
WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States declared a national
emergency in response to COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the City of Santa Clarita declared the existence of a
local emergency; and
WHEREAS, the conditions pertaining to the COVID-19 response no longer warrant and
necessitate the existence of a local emergency.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, California, does
hereby resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. The City of Santa Clarita City Council hereby terminate the existence of the
Local Emergency, proclaimed on March 13, 2020, pertaining to COVID-19.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution.
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 14th day of December 2021.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
DATE:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution No. 21- was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita
at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 141h day of December 2021, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
CITY CLERK
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