Resolution - 2020-22RESOLUTION NO.2020-22
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, DETERMINING THE
NEED TO CONTINUE THE LOCAL EMERGENCY
PROCLAIMED ON MARCH 16, 2020 AND CONFIRMING
THE WRITTEN ORDERS AND REGULATIONS
PROMULGATED BY THE CITY MANAGER
WHEREAS, the California Emergency Services Act (Government Code Section 8550 et
seq.) authorizes the City Council, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by the City
Council, to proclaim a local emergency when the City is threatened by conditions of disaster or
extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the City that are likely to be beyond
the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the City; and
WHEREAS, West Covina Municipal Code section 8-7(a)(1) empowers the City
Manager, as the Director of Emergency Services, to declare the existence or threatened existence
of a local emergency when the City is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity; and
WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the City Manager declared a local emergency as
authorized by Government Code section 8630(a) and West Covina Municipal Code section 8-
7(a)(1) through Proclamation No. 2020-01; and
WHEREAS, on March 17, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-19,
ratifying the City Manager's proclamation as required by Government Code section 8630(b) and
West Covina Municipal Code section 8-7(a)(1); and
WHEREAS, Section 8-7(a)(2) of the West Covina Municipal Code empowers the City
Manager to request that the City Council review the need for continuing the local emergency at
least once every 30 days until the City Council terminates the local emergency; and
WHEREAS, at the time the City Council ratified the proclamation, the World Health
Organization (WHO) reported, as of March 15, 2020, 153,517 confirmed cases of COVID-19
globally, 5,735 of which resulted in death. As of March 31, 2020, the WHO reported 750,890
confirmed cases globally, 36,405 of which resulted in death; and
WHEREAS, at the time the City Council ratified the proclamation, the California
Department of Public Health (CDPH) reported that, as of March 15, 2020, there were 335
confirmed cases of COVID-19 in California, six (6) of which resulted in death. As of March 30,
2020, CDPH reported there were 6,932 confirmed cases in California, 150 of which resulted in
death; and
WHEREAS, at the time the City Council ratified the proclamation, the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health ("LA County Health Department") reported that, as of
March 15, 2020, Los Angeles County had 69 confirmed cases, including one (1) death and one
(1) confirmed case at West Covina High School, As of March 31, 2020, the LA County Health
Department reported 3,011 confirmed cases, 54 of which resulted in death; and
WHEREAS, as of March 31, 2020, the LA County Health Department reported seven
(7) confirmed cases in the City of West Covina; and
WHEREAS, health officials expect the number of cases in California, the United States,
and worldwide to increase; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has requested that the City Council review the need for
continuing the local emergency in accordance with Section 8-7(a)(2) of the West Covina
Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the need for continuing the local emergency
as required by West Covina Municipal Code section 8-7(a)(2); and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the conditions resulting from the COVID-19
emergency are still beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the
City and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat; and
WHEREAS, Section 8-7(a)(7) of the West Covina Municipal Code permits the City
Manager to promulgate written orders and regulations to provide for the protection of life and
property as affected by the emergency, and requires that such rules and regulations be confirmed
at the earliest practicable time by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has promulgated the written orders and regulations set
forth in Exhibit "A," attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to confirm such written orders and regulations.
NOW, THE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council has reviewed the need for continuing the local
emergency as required by West Covina Municipal Code section 8-7(a)(2), and determines, based
on the foregoing recitals, that there is a need to continue the local emergency.
SECTION 2. This local emergency shall continue to exist until the City Council
proclaims the termination of the local emergency. The City Council shall review the need for
continuing the local emergency in the manner required by law.
SECTION 3. The City Council confirms the orders and regulations set forth in Exhibit
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of April, 2
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Thomas P. uarte
City Attorney
I, LISA SHERRICK, Assistant City
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
the City of West Covina, California, at a re
ATTEST
Lisa Sherri
Assistant ity Clerk
Clerk of the City of West Covina, California, do
No. 2020-22 was duly adopted by the City Council of
gular meeting thereof held on the 7tht day of April,
2020, by the following vote of the City Council:
AYES: Castellanos, Johnson, Shewmaker, Lopez-Viado, Wu
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Lisa S errick
Assi t City Clerk