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MOTION: It was m/s by Narum/Brown to adopt and waive full reading of Resolution No. 20-1143 waiving the imposition of Transient Occupancy Tax and City utility fines, penalties and interest, and suspending required utility deposits due to the COVID-19 national, state and local emergency. Motion passed by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Brown, Narum, Pentin, Testa, Mayor Thorne Noes: None Absent: None 4. Report from Director of Emergency Services on City response to the COVID-19 emergency and shelter in place order City Manager Fialho provided an update on the COVID-19 response and shelter in place order. Priorities remain the same as March 23: public safety with first responder activity; health and welfare of community and employees with emphasis on senior community; preservation of City assets, especially water and sewer operation; basic park maintenance to ensure asset isn't lost; accurate and timely information provided to community with the City as the source; and implementation of a system for reentry as the SIP order is eased. City Manager Fialho provided data for confirmed COVID-19 cases in Alameda County, with 48 confirmed cases in Pleasanton. He provided rates at which cases are increasing, hospital capacity and availability, and the death rate. Local activities in response to COVID-19 include sheltering 5 medically fragile homeless in a hotel; this will continue through the end of the declared emergency. Gingerbread is providing free childcare services to local healthcare workers. PUSD has childcare sites at Hearst and Fairlands. ValleyCare has a mobile testing facility requiring a doctor's order. First responders, LPFD, and PD have no reduction in staffing due to COVID-19 exposures. To help manage concerns of potential or confirmed COVID exposure, the City has free testing for PD and Fire, regardless of symptoms, that is coordinated through HR, Occupational Health, and ValleyCare. Four hotel rooms at Extended Stay in Pleasanton are available to City employees for up to 2 days if needed to provide isolation space for employees while awaiting test results and/or to coordinate arrangements to make adjustments to their home life. PD continues to take the approach of educating and providing direction to the community and public when responding to complaints of violation; this approach is well received. Parks are closed and routinely patrolled. Deputy City Manager Ott and the Communications team have been great at leveraging social media, our City website, and City newsletter to provide information and resources to the businesses and community. An East County test site is coming soon. It will differ from ValleyCare's current testing site with more nurses, clinicians, and doctors on site testing patients with or without a doctor's order. The continued challenge is getting testing swabs, which is an issue statewide. The requested 6,000 swabs from the State will accommodate 3 to 4 weeks of testing at the Fairgrounds. City employees are working in the office and from home. Others are assigned to non-profits: four at Open Heart Kitchen and six at Tri-Valley Haven. Today the Senior Center served 90 drive- through meals to seniors at a free and reduced price, this number continues to grow. The City continues to request PPE, surgical and N95 masks, and test swabs; about 85% have been delivered by the County and State. Some are kept for employees and first responders, but many are dispersed to medical providers and hospitals. City Council Minutes Page 10 of 11 April 15, 2020