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Home My WebLink About20 - Covid-19 Update - CorrespondenceReceived After Agenda Printed June 23, 2020 Item No. 20 From: Annika Logart <annikalogart@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2020 3:44 PM To: Dept - City Council Subject: COVID-19 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Counsil, In order for our economy to recover we , obviously need to control the spread of the covid-19 virus. I'm curious what The Council is doing to facilitate this matter. I'm wondering f.ex.how you are making sure restaurants and stores are operating with social distancing and other protocol. I believe we , citizens, need to hear from you. Sincerely, Annika Logart 704 Heliotrope Avenue Corona Del Mar Ca 92625 Sent from my Whone Received After Agenda Printed June 23, 2020 Item No. 20 From: Alisha Saska <asaska@clsocal.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:32 PM To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Letter for Public Comment Attachments: Letter to City of Newport Beach.pdf [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Councilmembers, Please find attached a letter for Public Comment at the next City Council Meeting. The Orange County Sheriff has resumed eviction lockouts. This places many in the City at risk. Community Legal Aid of SoCal, Heart LA, and the Public Law Center request you urge the Board of Supervisors and the Orange County Sheriff to postpone these lockouts. Best, Alisha Saska I Supervising Attorney, Housing Unit Community Legal Aid SoCal 2101 N. Tustin Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705 714-571-5250 Direct 714-571-5270 Fax asaska@clsocal.org www.communitylegalsocal.org 0 1 June 23, 2020 VIA EMAIL City of Newport Beach 100 Civic Center Newport Beach, CA 92660 Email: cityclerk@newportbeachca.gov Dear Councilmembers: The undersigned legal services organizations write to urge you to protect your most vulnerable residents and request that the County Board of Supervisors ask the Orange County Sheriff's Department suspend the pending 185 evictions that were set to start June 1, 2020 for the duration of the State of Emergency relating to COVID-19 and an additional thirty days following the termination of the State of Emergency. California remains in a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number have grown substantially, with more than two million cases nationwide. The County of Orange recently reported approximately 10,595 cumulative cases of COVID-19, 175 active cases, and 269 deaths from COVID-19.1 Despite efforts to reopen and relax rules governing the face coverings in public, the increase in cases and deaths, should cause the City of Newport Beach pause, especiai'ly in light of those who are amid eviction and at risk of homelessness. The City must not countenance a result. Our organization provides critical legal services to low-income communities, which includes, but is not limited to, tenant counseling and eviction defense and we each advocate for the rights of low-income tenants. We serve clients and communities to ensure equal access to the justice system for people who could not otherwise afford attorneys. In previous correspondence with the Board of Supervisors, we explained that suspending the enforcement of eviction orders is not only critical for protecting public health, but that it is within the powers of the Board of Supervisors to do s0.2 Suspending the enforcement of eviction orders will ensure that families do not become homeless when they are legally required to shelter in place and will reduce the risk of exposure for your deputies. In Orange County, there are already close to 7,000 unsheltered individuals.' On April 6, 2020, the Judicial Council adopted a rule that effectively stays all eviction proceedings and judicial foreclosure proceedings throughout the State of California and continues all eviction trials, for a period 'See O.C. COVID-19 Orange County Case Counts, available at ..... ttl'-.c#c> int..;.c.le.tl.i.rt,s cz ....... ».i�-twe ....... . (current data posted as of June 22, 2020). 2 CA Gov. Code § 25303 ("The Board of Supervisors is responsible for supervising `the official conduct of all county officers, and officers of all districts and other subdivisions of the County... "'). See also Brelvster v. Shasta Cry., 275 F.3d 803, 809-10 (9th Cir. 200 1) (establishing an affirmative duty of the Board of Supervisors to supervise the conduct of all county official including the sheriff so long as the supervision does not interfere with the investigation of a crime.) 3 Latest Point in Time Count Finds Almost 7000 Homeless People in Orange County, available at h ttps://www.latimes. com/socal/dail y-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-pit-count-results-20190424-story. htmI extending after the end of the State of Emergency. The rule applies regardless of the reason for the eviction. On June 10, 2020, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court suspended a planned vote to repeal the emergency rule after August 3, 2020.4 Accordingly, the emergency rules related to evictions and judicial foreclosures are still in effect. The Judicial Council's emergency rules and the heightening public crisis arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic protect Californians from eviction for newly filed and pending actions, but leaves unresolved the status of people against whom a court had already issued an eviction order. The fate of these households is in your hands, and they are just as in need of protection from the public health crisis as the households who will be protected by the Judicial Council's rule. Accordingly, we urgently request that you agree to suspend enforcement of any and all pending eviction orders, unless they are directly related to a protective order (e.g., a TRO issued by a court related to domestic violence and/or elder dependent abuse), during the State of Emergency and at least ninety days thereafter. We ask that you please inform us by date/time of your position, by emailing or calling Ugochi Anaebere- Nicholson, at unicholson u alic:lawc.eriter.or , or at 714-541-1010 x 280, Dianne Prado, at diangg2h(-Lartla.org or at 323-643-4430, or Kate Marr, at l(marr @? cisocaI,pr or at 714-571-5218 . Sincerely, /s/ Z qdo A&V-&W-� P�oct Ugochi Anaebere-Nicholson Directing Attorney, Housing and Homelessness Prevention Unit Public Law Center Dianne Prado Executive Director Housing Equality & Advocacy Resource Team Kate Marr Executive Director Community Legal Aid SoCal 4 Chief Justice Suspends Vote on Eviction, Foreclosure Emergency Rules, available at t:t s. r�etrsc�€,rc€a�1:.€:a. iv r�ev�r. cEie-`€est:iee-5;.t:e�;€i-vct:€-€:�r-cvic9:i�r-f€�ef:ic€ire-€►€t ec- r€ales(lastvisited June 12, 2020.)