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Consider recommendations regarding the Ratification of a Declaration of Local Health Emergency and Ratification of the Proclamation of Local Emergency Regarding COVID-19, as follows:
a) Receive an update on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19);
b) Adopt a Resolution ratifying the declaration by the local health officer declaring a Local Health Emergency due to an imminent and proximate threat to the public health, within the meaning of Section 101080 of the Health and Safety Code, by the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization;
c) Upon termination of the State Emergency, direct the local health officer to return every 30-days for re-ratification of the Local Health Emergency until such time that the response and recovery conditions dictate otherwise;
d) Adopt a Resolution ratifying the Proclamation of Local Emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the Director of Emergency Services on March 12, 2020, when the Board of Supervisors was not in session, pursuant to Government Code Section 8550 et. seq. and Chapter 12, Section 12-5(a) of the Santa Barbara County Code;
e) Upon termination of the State Emergency, direct the Office of Emergency Management to return every 60-days for re-ratification of the Local Emergency until such time that the response and recovery conditions dictate otherwise; and
f) Determine the above actions are not a "Project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because the actions consist of organizational or administrative activities of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.