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Pursuant to City Charter 6.06, an emergency ordinance for the specific purpose of curing any potential procedural issues with the original enactment of Emergency Ordinance No. 20-36 on November 18, 2020, to facilitate the establishment of a day-use service facility to provide services to the City’s unsheltered population during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency at the site of former Fire Station 51 at 296 West Seventh Street commonly known as “Freedom House.”
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Statement of legislative intent, purpose and findings of the City Council.
WHEREAS, the specific purpose of this Emergency Ordinance is to cure any potential procedural issues with the original enactment of Emergency Ordinance No. 20-36 on November 18, 2020; and
WHEREAS, on November 18, 2020, Emergency Ordinance 20-36 was enacted to facilitate the establishment of a day-use service facility to provide services to the City’s unsheltered population during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency on the premises of former fire Station 51 at 296 West Seventh Street, the said pandemic emergency having previously been declared a state-wide emergency by Governor Walz in Executive Order 20-10 dated March 13, 2020 and a city-wide emergency by Mayor Carter’s emergency declaration dated March 15, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Emergency Ordinance 20-36 contained statements of the City Council’s legislative intent to support its enactment of the Emergency Order, based upon the Council’s findings therein that, essentially, the City’s unsheltered population lacked reasonable access to facilities in which basic services could be provided and in which the unsheltered population could find safety from winter weather conditions during the day when some overnight shelters were not accessible or available during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency; and, that former Fire Station 51, a facility under City ownership could be used to provide services during the day to the City’s unsheltered population during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency b...
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