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7.113. - Page 10 of 17 WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to take immediate steps to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19 by ensuring that local small businesses, which are essential to the health and vibrancy of our local communities, survive this current pandemic; and WHEREAS, Section 25123 of the Government Code authorizes the Board to adopt an urgency ordinance to protect the public peace, health, or safety, where there is a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency and the ordinance is adopted by a four-fifths vote of the Board; and WHEREAS, Section 8634 of the Government Code provides that during a local emergency, the governing body of a political subdivision of the State may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property, where such orders are in writing and given widespread publicity and notice; and WHEREAS, Section 101025 of the Health and Safety Code provides that the Board shall take measures as may be necessary to preserve and protect the public health in the unincorporated territory of the County, including the adoption of ordinances, regulations, and orders; and WHEREAS, this Ordinance would establish a temporary moratorium on eviction of small business commercial tenants directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, after the temporary moratorium on eviction ends, many small business commercial tenants will continue to experience severe financial hardship as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and, therefore, this Ordinance also allows those small business commercial tenants who, as a direct result of COVID-19, remain unable to repay rent due while the moratorium remained in place up to 180 days after the moratorium ends to repay that rent; and WHEREAS, this Ordinance, effective immediately, is necessary to avoid the immediate threat to the public peace, health, safety, life, property, and general welfare, as failure to adopt this Ordinance could worsen the present crisis by displacing small business commercial tenants who are unable to pay rent due to the severe COVID-19- related financial impacts described above and by making it more difficult for them to follow the health guidance of social distancing and isolation, which will put many others at risk; and 231