Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Subsections 8.120.010.D, 8.120.020.B, and 8.120.040; and amending and restating Section 8.120.030; all relating to 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)  (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0003)
Vice Mayor Richardson. Vice Mayor Richardson, motion carries. Okay. Thank you. Item 25, please. Item 25 is a communication from city attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code related to temporary enforcement of Long Beach health orders regarding COVID 19, declaring the urgency thereof. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Citywide. I have a motion that comes to me. Ranga, can I get a second, please? Second Vice Mayor Richardson. I think there might be one public comment. Yes, we have two public comment for this item. Tiffany DAVIES, the first speaker. Tiffany Davey. Good evening of the American City Council and Tiffany David, District four residents. I'm just calling to voice my support of this amendment to the language we use. The Code Chapter eight 120 as it relates to the temporary enforcement of the health orders regarding COVID 19. The amendments concerning length of time understanding the monster ordinance were to expire tomorrow on January 20th. Allowing for enforcement beyond the most recent promulgation of the order seems consistent with ultimate goal to preserve life during this ongoing pandemic. As for the amendments to enforcement and penalties, I also support that in light of recent events wherein a business within the food and beverage sector openly defied this health order publicly and on multiple counts, in addition to organizing like minded business owners to meet, to find ways to continue to defy, to defy the health order. I find this and the aforementioned amendments to be urgent. The fact remains that the health orders are promulgated in an effort to ensure all members of the community are safe and the orders should not be subject to an individual feeling or law. That is what I said with that empathy for all affected, but for concerns of the safety and health of every member of our community. Thank you. Our next speaker is Dave Shukla. Good evening. I like this to express my support for this item. And briefly, I would just like to separate the utility shut off for bad actors from the overall extension of the health of these health of the city has made tremendous efforts in its vaccination program. With the options that are currently available on the market, the widespread availability and adoption of vaccination will likely have to include more accessible and affordable options like the not yet FDA approved AstraZeneca one. And it simply may take longer than hundred and 80 days, especially if there are complications from new variants of COVID 19 that have already been documented in California. But continued education and public outreach are other basic behavioral interventions that one can take are crucial for wearing masks, handwashing, distancing, ventilating people, and so on. No. There are tremendous opportunities with the incoming administration to expand support for these basic behavioral interventions, along with expanding testing, tracing and other communication on COVID. People like to make a difference, along with a lot of the increased enforcement that we. We're considering claiming but I think the health department and for every. Thank you. That concludes public comment for the final. Roll call vote. Please note Councilwoman Sandy has. I'm Councilwoman Cindy Allen. Hi. Councilwoman Pryce. And. Councilman Spinner. All right. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilwoman Sara. I. Councilmember Arango. All right. Councilman Austin. All right. Vice Mayor Richardson. Vice Mayor Richardson, I motion case. Thank you. Okay. I think we have gotten through a lot of the a lot of the items. We're going to go back now. We do have some other some other items. You're going to have reports and so forth. So we're going to start going through those. And before we do that, let's go ahead and have the clerk just go through the public comment, the open public comment. We'll get through that and then we'll start the rest of the agenda. Thank you. Our first speaker is Joni Ricks O.D..