O.1. 20-1198 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE CITY'S LOCAL EMERGENCY PERTAINING TO COVID-19
ADOPT BY TITLE ONLY RESOLUTION NO. CC-2008-057, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA CONFIRMING THE ACTIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER ACTING AS THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES IN ISSUING ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY PUBLIC ORDERS DATED JULY 30, 2020 AND AN UPDATED SUMMARY OF EMERGENCY ORDERS UNDER THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH'S EMERGENCY AUTHORITY
ADOPT BY TITLE ONLY RESOLUTION NO. CC-2008-058, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA RECOMMENDING INDIVIDUALS WEAR FACE COVERINGS WHEN IN PUBLIC WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS
Please do more than make just a recommendation to wear masks. At a minimum, we should be consistent with Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach on this issue. Wearing masks, social distancing and hand-washing are the things we can all easily do to help lessen the risks of contracting and/or spreading this deadly virus. Please be consistent with our neighbor cities to the north regarding the wearing of masks in public. If we do nothing, ours will be the city where anti-maskers will congregate.
We can't have a healthy economy without a healthy community and the best medical advice tells us that face masks are a critical tool towards slowing the spread of COVID-19. A resolution recommending them and nothing else doesn't accomplish anything. I strongly support requiring them in appropriate situations consistent with medical advice. Face masks aren't something you can choose to believe in any more than the sun is something you choose to believe in. They're a tool and right now the best medical advice is that we should wear them when we're around others who don't live in our household. Our catastrophic inability to effectively mitigate the spread of this disease is heartbreaking because it's so unnecessary.
The challenge is how to get everyone to wear a face mask when appropriate. What language is needed to ensure people are only required to wear them when failing to do so is a public health risk? How effective have fines or other measures been in other cities? What type of burden does this place on RBPD? What type of public health education can be most effective at conveying the reasons why face masks are necessary in some situations currently? What can we do as a city and a community to ensure we do everything reasonable to minimize the spread of COVID-19 so we can save lives and get back to some type normal as quickly as possible? We should do more than, "strongly recommend."
My name is Allen Sanford, and I am the owner of Rockefeller in the Riviera, the BeachLife Festival, and am on the RVA Board and Disaster Committee. I want to commend the City Council for acting fast to help the outdoor parklets come to life, and I have personally spent a significant amount of time navigating & fast-tracking the plethora of requirements and obstacles to making these happen. Happy to report that these are working, the businesses are able to utilize, customers are provided a safe, outdoor experience that is commensurate with the quality level of Redondo, and the City has been able to experience some small level of sales tax increase as a result. I wanted to make the City Council aware that we have a new obstacle: not only have many businesses not been able to build because of lack of upfront funds, but we also have obstacles to surpass with the winter coming (rainwater, electricity, heat, etc.). The City Staff needs reports & studies executed, but there is no funding to support this. With your leadership, perhaps there is an answer with City involvement somehow. Most important, businesses need to be able to know that these parklets aren't going away in 2-3 months so that they can invest in them temporarily. As a small business owner, I'm ready to help however I can to forge ahead through these obstacles, but we need your help. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.
Jeff Ginsburg, Board Member of Riviera Village Association since 2005
over 4 years ago
My name is Jeff Ginsburg and I am the current President of the Riviera Village Association; I wanted to say that the RVA greatly appreciates all the support the Mayor, City Council Members and City Staff have had in assisting us with the Outdoor Dining Parklets & Sidewalk Sale in Riviera Village during these unique times with COVID-19. The RVA is receiving frequent positive comments from business owners and visitors in the Riviera Village and therefore we really want to focus on extending the date of the Special Event Permit until at least 12/31/2020. Planning ahead with approvals for this will give the RVA and City Staff the time needed to adjust for the winter season which will be upon us within a few months. Please let us know what the RVA can do to assist with this as our goal is for the Riviera Village to safely make it through COVID-19 as problem-free as possible. Thank you again for all of your support :)
Please do more than make just a recommendation to wear masks. At a minimum, we should be consistent with Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach on this issue. Wearing masks, social distancing and hand-washing are the things we can all easily do to help lessen the risks of contracting and/or spreading this deadly virus. Please be consistent with our neighbor cities to the north regarding the wearing of masks in public. If we do nothing, ours will be the city where anti-maskers will congregate.
We can't have a healthy economy without a healthy community and the best medical advice tells us that face masks are a critical tool towards slowing the spread of COVID-19. A resolution recommending them and nothing else doesn't accomplish anything. I strongly support requiring them in appropriate situations consistent with medical advice. Face masks aren't something you can choose to believe in any more than the sun is something you choose to believe in. They're a tool and right now the best medical advice is that we should wear them when we're around others who don't live in our household. Our catastrophic inability to effectively mitigate the spread of this disease is heartbreaking because it's so unnecessary.
The challenge is how to get everyone to wear a face mask when appropriate. What language is needed to ensure people are only required to wear them when failing to do so is a public health risk? How effective have fines or other measures been in other cities? What type of burden does this place on RBPD? What type of public health education can be most effective at conveying the reasons why face masks are necessary in some situations currently? What can we do as a city and a community to ensure we do everything reasonable to minimize the spread of COVID-19 so we can save lives and get back to some type normal as quickly as possible? We should do more than, "strongly recommend."
My name is Allen Sanford, and I am the owner of Rockefeller in the Riviera, the BeachLife Festival, and am on the RVA Board and Disaster Committee. I want to commend the City Council for acting fast to help the outdoor parklets come to life, and I have personally spent a significant amount of time navigating & fast-tracking the plethora of requirements and obstacles to making these happen. Happy to report that these are working, the businesses are able to utilize, customers are provided a safe, outdoor experience that is commensurate with the quality level of Redondo, and the City has been able to experience some small level of sales tax increase as a result. I wanted to make the City Council aware that we have a new obstacle: not only have many businesses not been able to build because of lack of upfront funds, but we also have obstacles to surpass with the winter coming (rainwater, electricity, heat, etc.). The City Staff needs reports & studies executed, but there is no funding to support this. With your leadership, perhaps there is an answer with City involvement somehow. Most important, businesses need to be able to know that these parklets aren't going away in 2-3 months so that they can invest in them temporarily. As a small business owner, I'm ready to help however I can to forge ahead through these obstacles, but we need your help. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.
My name is Jeff Ginsburg and I am the current President of the Riviera Village Association; I wanted to say that the RVA greatly appreciates all the support the Mayor, City Council Members and City Staff have had in assisting us with the Outdoor Dining Parklets & Sidewalk Sale in Riviera Village during these unique times with COVID-19. The RVA is receiving frequent positive comments from business owners and visitors in the Riviera Village and therefore we really want to focus on extending the date of the Special Event Permit until at least 12/31/2020. Planning ahead with approvals for this will give the RVA and City Staff the time needed to adjust for the winter season which will be upon us within a few months. Please let us know what the RVA can do to assist with this as our goal is for the Riviera Village to safely make it through COVID-19 as problem-free as possible. Thank you again for all of your support :)