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Despite the restrictions, the City was able to adapt and deliver creative substitutions for some of the community's important events: ribbons along Main Street and fireworks took the place of in-person graduation ceremonies but allowed the entire community to join in the celebration; the weekend closures of Main Street offered residents opportunities to reconnect with downtown as they supported the merchants; and even though the Hometown Holiday Parade was virtual, our traditional holiday tree was lit. Regional Partnerships Throughout the pandemic, Pleasanton has been working with the cities of Dublin and Livermore and other local and regional partners such as Stanford Health Care- ValleyCare and Alameda County Fairgrounds along with Alameda County to implement several imperative initiatives: • The regional testing site has now been in operation for 40 weeks and has performed more than 29,000 COVID tests over that time; to date, average positivity rate of those tested at the site is around 7 percent. • The drive-through food distribution site has been serving on average more than 700 households (for almost 2,800 individuals) each week; close to 70 percent of those served qualify as extremely low-income. • The regional vaccination site is newly opened and will offer vaccines to community members that meet the current vaccination criteria, regardless of health care provider, based on available supply of vaccines. It is anticipated that over time the site will be able to administrator several thousand vaccinations per week. All of these efforts are critical to allowing our community to successfully transition to post-COVID activities. More information on these and other related data and discussion points is included in Attachment 1, the Incident Management Team Summary Report dated February 6-10, 2021. DISCUSSION COVID Data Throughout the pandemic, there has been a series of shelter-in-place orders and accompanying tiers of restrictions based on data that tracks the spread of COVID in California and Alameda County. As shown on the chart below, the data was trending positively (decreasing) during the summer months of 2020, which allowed the Alameda County to move into Red Tier activities. However, toward the end of the year COVID case rates again began increasing such that on December 3, the State issued a regionally based stay-at-home order intended to curb an anticipated surge during the holiday season based on worsening ICU availability. By December 7, Alameda County has implemented that stay-at-home order, and as of December 17, all Bay Area counties were under the order as the region's ICU availability dropped below 15 percent. Page 3 of 6