HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances 21-06-483 - 06/07/2021' STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF FULTON
ORDINANCE NO. L - 66 —��3
AN AMENDED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA UNDER SECTION 3.18
OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA TO PROVIDE
FOR THE OPERATION OF THE CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA DURING
THE PUBLIC EMERGENCY KNOWN AS THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS
DISEASE 2019 GLOBAL PANDEMIC; TO BECOME EFFECTIVE AS
STATED; TO SUPERSEDE THE EXISTING EMERGENCY ORDINANCE;
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of Milton, Georgia are
charged with the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens
of the City of Milton, Georgia; and
WHEREAS, Section 3.18 of the Charter of the City of Milton, Georgia
empowers the Mayor and City Council to adopt an emergency ordinance to meet a
public emergency affecting life, health, property, or public peace; and
WHEREAS, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19") global
pandemic is a public emergency affecting and threatening life, health, property, and
public peace; and
WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national
emergency due to COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, on March 14, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp declared a statewide
emergency in Georgia, describing COVID-19, and the corresponding pandemic, as
a public health emergency; and
WHEREAS, the Governor's declaration has been repeatedly extended;
WHEREAS, the Governor's declaration of statewide emergency is currently
set to expire on June 29, 2021; and
WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the Mayor and City Council for the City of
Milton declared via Emergency Ordinance that an emergency exists in the City of
Milton based on COVID-19; and
' WHEREAS, the City of Milton's Emergency Ordinance has been renewed
on several occasions, with the most recently adopted version of the Ordinance having
been extended through and including June 7, 2021;
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the City of Milton to readopt and reinstitute
the Emergency Ordinance effective June 7, 2021 and extending through July 7, 2021,
coterminous with the Governor's statewide declaration of emergency;
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council continue to find that a state of local
emergency exists in Milton, due to COVID-19;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the powers conferred by the City of Milton's various
Emergency Ordinances, as well as those powers conferred by Section 18-25 of the
Milton Code, the Mayor has issued various emergency declarations for the purpose
of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on the citizens and businesses of Milton;
WHEREAS, the City Council has an interest in extending the declared state
of local emergency and further extending certain enumerated Mayoral declarations
' to run coterminous with the period of declared local emergency; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council also has an interest in providing relief to those
businesses negatively affected by COVID-19.
NOW THEREFORE, THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF
MILTON HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the WHEREAS and Preamble sections, above, are hereby
incorporated verbatim herein and the factual statements and findings are hereby
ratified and affirmed;
SECTION 2. That the Declaration of Emergency set forth in the March 20,
2020 Emergency Ordinance and the associated Proclamation of the Mayor declaring
a local emergency due to COVID-19, are hereby further renewed and extended from
June 7, 2021 until 11:59 p.m. on July 7, 2021;
SECTION 3. That Sections 5 and 7 of the March 20, 2020 Emergency
Ordinance are renewed and extended;
SECTION 4. That the City of Milton's Reopening Plan was approved on May
18, 2020 and continues in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. That during the term of this Emergency Ordinance, citizens
shall be allowed to email questions or comments to the Council and those be read
into the record — even if the citizen is not in physical attendance at the Council
meeting.
SECTION 6. That during the effective date of Emergency Ordinance, it is the
expectation of the Mayor and Council that all agencies of the City will assemble live
and in person to conduct City business. However, in the event that COVID-19 (either
due to diagnosis or exposure of agency members) results in a quorum of agency
members being unable to assemble in person, the Council does hereby authorize such
agencies to meet via teleconference (virtually), with this Ordinance providing the
requisite justification for such virtual/teleconference meeting. This accommodation
is to ensure that the important business of the City continues. The Chair of the
pertinent agency shall confer with the Mayor as to the necessity of conducting the
meeting virtually, with it anticipated that the Mayor and the Chair will come to
mutual agreement on the need to conduct a virtual meeting. If there is a
' disagreement, the Mayor shall make the final determination. The reason for meeting
virtually (i.e., COVID-19 diagnosis or quarantine resulting in the inability to
assemble a quorum) shall be entered upon the minutes when the agency assembles
for its virtual meeting.
SECTION 7. This New Emergency Ordinance shall become effective and
operational commencing June 7, 2021 and shall expire at 11:59 p.m. on July 7, 2021,
and may be reenacted, extended, terminated, or amended upon affirmative action
taken at a meeting of the City Council called by the Mayor or two (2)
councilmembers of the City Council, and may be otherwise terminated as set forth
in this paragraph. In the event that the Governor for the State of Georgia terminates
the formal declaration of statewide emergency related to COVID-19, or the
Governor's statewide emergency declaration is allowed to lapse, then this New
Emergency Ordinance and the City's declaration of emergency associated therewith
shall stand automatically terminated by either such event, it being the intent of the
Mayor and Council that this New Emergency Ordinance shall run coterminous with
the Governor's declaration of statewide emergency.
SO ORDAINED this �_th day of June 2021 by the Mayor and Council of
' the City of Milton, Georgia.
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Attest:
Tammy Lo it, City Clerk
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