HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC_2020-03-17_SpecialMeetingMinutesSPECIAL MEETING
Atascadero City Council
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
1:00 P.M.
Atascadero City Hall Council Chambers, 4th Floor
6500 Palma Avenue, Atascadero, California
(Enter from Lewis Avenue)
MINUTES
Mayor Moreno called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. and Mayor Pro Tem Bourbeau led
the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL:
Present: Council Members Fonzi, Funk, Newsom, Mayor Pro Tem Bourbeau,
and Mayor Moreno
Absent: None
Staff Present: City Manager Rachelle Rickard, Police Chief Jerel !-Haley,
Community Development Director Phil Dunsmore, Fire Chief Casey
Bryson, Deputy City Manager/City Clerk Lara Chnstensen (by
teleconference), and Deputy City Clerk Amanda Muther
DISCUSSION:
1. Declaration of the Existence of a Local Emergency
• Recommendation: Council adopt Draft Resolution Declaring the existence of a
local emergency within the City of Atascadero (COVID-19). [City Manager]
City Manager Rickard gave the presentation and answered questions from the Council.
Police Chief Haley also answered questions from the Council. City Manager Rickard
noted that a revised Draft Resolution, to include Sections 5 and 6, was provided to Council
at the dais and a copy included in the Public Review book.
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PUBLIC COMMENT:
The following citizens spoke on this item: Remi Sandri
Mayor Moreno closed the Public Comment period.
MOTION: By Council Member Newsom and seconded by Mayor Pro Tem
Bourbeau to adopt Resolution No. 2020-005 declaring the
existence of a local emergency within the City of Atascadero as
revised to include the following Sections:
SECTION 5. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon
adoption, or if legally permissible, retroactive to March 4, 2020, when
Governor Newsom declared an emergency in the State of California.
SECTION 6. A copy of this order and regulation shall be posted on all
outside public access doors of City Hall of the City of Atascadero and
in one public place within any area of the City within which this order
and regulation applies and personnel of the City of Atascadero shall
endeavor to make copies of this order and regulation available to the
news media,
Motion passed 5:0 by a roll -call vote.
ADJOURNMENT:
Mayor Moreno adjourned the meeting at 1:23 p.m. to the next Regular Session scheduled
for Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.
MINUTES PREPARED BY:
P, Lara -K. Christensen
Deputy City-ManagFr/City Clerk
APPROVED: March 24, 2020
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