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Consider Adoption of Urgency Ordinance or Introduction of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Adding Section 4-61 (Grocery Worker Hazard Pay) to Require Large Grocery Stores in Alameda to Pay Employees an Additional Five Dollars ($5.00) per Hour in Hazard Pay during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and to Include Enforcement of Emergency Hazard Pay to Grocery Employees. (Vice Mayor Vella and Councilmember Knox White) [Not heard on March 2, 2021]
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.
3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Vice Mayor Vella and Councilmember Knox White
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 2/17/2021
Council Meeting date: 3/2/2021
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
The City Council should consider adopting the attached emergency ordinance as written replacing Oakland with Alameda. Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Emeryville and other Alameda County cities have authored the exact same big box grocery hazard pay urgency ordinances based on the original language adopted in Long Beach.
The City Council is being asked to adopt the urgency ordinance and direct the City Attorney to follow the legal challenge to the Long Beach measure. There is a hearing on the preliminary injunction next Tuesday, February 23, 2021. If the legislation is enjoined, the City may pull the measure.
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Urgent
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