Long Beach, CA
File #: 20-0660    Version: 1 Name: CM - CARES Act Funding
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 7/2/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/14/2020 Final action: 7/14/2020
Title: Recommendation to review a report on Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funding and potential uses and provide input and policy direction; and Approve State CARES Act related budget appropriation adjustments for Fiscal Year 2020 across various departments and funds in accordance with existing City Council policy. (Citywide)
Sponsors: City Manager
Attachments: 1. 071420-R-18sr&att.pdf, 2. 071420-R-18 Correspondence.pdf, 3. 071420-R-18 PowerPoint.pdf, 4. 071420-R-18 TFF Memo 05.03.21.pdf
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Recommendation to review a report on Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funding and potential uses and provide input and policy direction; and

Approve State CARES Act related budget appropriation adjustments for Fiscal Year 2020 across various departments and funds in accordance with existing City Council policy. (Citywide)

DISCUSSION
Since the declared health emergencies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic (pandemic), the City’s top priority has been to mitigate the risks to residents’ health. However, there have been, and continue to be, high costs associated with that effort. To help offset the expenses related to this response, the City has actively advocated for an allocation of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funding from the State and County. This report provides an overview of CARES Act funding the City expects to receive and its recommended uses.

As of July 1, 2020, the City has incurred pandemic-related costs of $14.9 million in the General Fund, with total expenditures across all funds of $27.3 million and the City will continue to incur additional costs. These costs include emergency response staff and activities directed out of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Incident Management Team (IMT), including pop-up homeless shelters, non-congregant sheltering for People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH), COVID-19 tests and testing sites, portable hand-sanitizing stations, food distribution activities, alternate care sites at the Long Beach Arena and Long Beach City College (LBCC) Liberal Arts Campus, and isolation and quarantine sites, among many other actions and activities. There are currently no projected end dates to these activities or their associated costs, and the needs and actions are constantly changing. In addition, the City is incurring costs related to the implementation of the Safer-at-Home Health Order (Health Order) and the associated changes to it as the City commun...

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