Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Discussion
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CONSIDER A RESOLUTION RATIFYING IN PART AND AMENDING IN PART, THE CARSON DISASTER COUNCIL ORDER DATED MAY 27, 2021, AND CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE, TO ALIGN THE CITY OF CARSON MASK MANDATES WITH THOSE OF THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES AND STATE OF CALIFORNIA (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
While the COVID-19 virus has resulted in an untold number of transmissions worldwide, nationally, statewide, and within the City of Carson, resulting in serious illness and death, the rate of transmission has decreased significantly in recent months in large part due to the vaccines that have become so widely accessible pursuant to emergency use FDA approvals. The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health recently issued an order effective May 14, 2021, which contains mask mandates and restrictions that are more relaxed than those that were in effect previously, including as compared to the City of Carson face masks and coverings mandates.
It is expected that the County Health Department will continue to issue modified orders that further relax mandates so long as the rate of COVID-19 transmissions continues to decline, which result is the widespread expectation as more people build immunity either through receipt of vaccinations or natural immunity for those who contract COVID-19.
The Carson Disaster Council on May 27, 2021, issued an order to bring the City's mask mandates into compliance with those more relaxed mandates of the County and/or the State, by following and completely aligning with, and continuing to be completely aligned with, the regulations and guidelines of the State or County Health Department, whichever is more restrictive. During that same meeting, the Disaster Council also ordered that Section 3708.1 of the City's Municipal Code be amended to provide that violations of the City's mask mandates will not automatically result in a fine, as whether a violation will result i...
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