City of Long Beach - File #: 20-0390

• File #: 20-0390
• Version: 4
• Name: CA - ORD/Civil Defense
• Type: Emergency Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/27/2020
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 5/5/2020
• Final action: 5/19/2020
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 8.120, temporary enforcement of Long Beach Health Orders related to COVID-19; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)
• Sponsors: City Attorney

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/19/2020	4	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
5/12/2020	3	City Council	approve recommendation to declare Emergency Ordinance No. ORD- , read, and adopted as read and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass
5/12/2020	3	City Council	approve recommendation to declare an emergency to exist	Pass
5/5/2020	1	City Council	approve recommendation	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 8.120, temporary enforcement of Long Beach Health Orders related to COVID-19; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

DISCUSSION
Per your request on May 5, 2020, this Ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code ("LBMC") by adding Chapter 8.120, "Temporary Enforcement of Long Beach Health Orders Related to COVID-19", has been prepared and is submitted for your consideration.

In an effort to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 within the City, the Long Beach Health Officer issued the "Safer at Home Order for Control of COVID-19" ("Health Order") and has revised the Health Order from time to time as necessary for the public health and safety during this ongoing emergency.

The proposed Ordinance would require, where practicable, the City Manager to bring City Health Orders related to COVID-19 before the City Council for confirmation prior to promulgating such Health Orders. In the event it is not feasible to do this, the City Manager is required to, within 14 days of promulgation of said Health Orders, request the City Council to confirm the Health Orders. This process recognizes a potential need for the City's Health Officer to quickly amend or update, and the City Manager to promulgate, City Health Orders due to the rapid development of COVID-19, while still ensuring that the City Council maintains oversight of the COVID-19 local emergency and the City Manager's related orders.

Although it is vital that the City is able to effectively enforce City Health Orders during the COVID-19 emergency, the City's primary goal is to ensure the public health and safety is achieved through outreach efforts and education of the Long Beach community. However, where such education and outreach efforts are unsuccessful in compelling compliance, the proposed Ordinance allows for civil...