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Resolution amending the proclamation of a local health emergency (adopted pursuant to Resolution No. 35-2020) to temporarily authorize the City Manager to waive Fire Department inspection fees for restaurant occupancies.
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WHEREAS, Section 8630, Article 14, of the California Emergency Services Act empowers the City Council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency when the City of South San Francisco ("City") is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 2.72 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code ("SSFMC") similarly authorizes the City Manager, serving as the Director of Emergency Services to declare and proclaim, or to request the City Council to declare and proclaim, the existence or threatened existence of a "local emergency"; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 2.72 of the SSFMC also authorizes the City Manager, serving as the Director of Emergency Services, to make and issue rules and regulations, on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as effected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by City Council; and
WHEREAS, the City Council proclaimed a local State of Emergency related to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 11, 2020 via Resolution No. 35-2020 (the "Emergency Proclamation"); and
WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, seven health officers within six Bay Area counties, including San Mateo County ("County"), took a unified step to slow the spread of COVID-19 and preserve critical health care capacity across the region by issuing a legal order directing their respective residents to shelter at home and limiting activity, travel and business functions to only the most essential needs for three weeks, beginning March 17, 2020; and
WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order ordering all individuals living in the State of California ("State") to stay ho...
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