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Recommendation to receive and file a report on the financial assistance and other agreements accepted by the City of Long Beach, from October 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, under Resolution No. RES-20-0049 to respond to the proclaimed emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and
Increase appropriations in the Housing Authority Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $1,904,610 for HUD Section 8 administrative fee funding to provide for costs related to protecting assisted families and employees throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, offset by grant revenues. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On March 4, 2020, the City of Long Beach (City) declared local health and city emergencies to strengthen the City's preparedness and ability to respond to the novel coronavirus, commonly known as COVID-19. City Council authorized the declarations on March 10, 2020.
Since that time, the City Health Officer, under authority of applicable State law, issued several City Health Orders guiding and restricting activities of the community as a means of slowing the spread and mitigating the effects of COVID-19. These Health Orders and certain COVID-19 emergency response activities were necessary to protect public health, life, and safety of the Long Beach community during this health emergency while cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in Long Beach began to rise.
As part of the overall assessment of potential City needs to respond to the serious and imminent threat of an outbreak of COVID-19, it was determined that the City should take advantage of federal and state grants being made available to address the COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, it became necessary for the City to apply for and enter into grant agreements in an expedited manner. To provide staff with greater ability to secure grant funds as they become available to fund COVID-19 response activities, on April 14, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution RES- 20-0049 authorizing the City Manager to execute d...
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