The attached Resolution authorizes the City Manager to extend the duration of the Declaration for an additional period of seven (7) days, commencing at 12:00 a.m. on April 22, 2021, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on April 28, 2021. In addition, the Resolution authorizes the City Manager to extend the Declaration for two (2) additional 7-day increments, commencing at 12:00 a.m. on April 29, 2021, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on May 12, 2021 (i.e. the date of the next regularly scheduled City Commission meeting).

The Resolution further provides that the scope of any emergency measures ordered by the City Manager pursuant to the Declaration shall, consistent with all prior emergency measures imposed by the City Manager to date, be limited to respond to immediate threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, no emergency action taken by the City Manager shall be binding on the City Commission beyond the period of the COVID-19 State of Emergency, or otherwise limit the ability of the City Commission to undo any action of the City Manager, whether contractually or legislatively.

UPDATE

On April 5, 2021, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued Emergency Order (“EO”) 33-20, canceling a number of prior EOs pertaining to the COVID-19 emergency, and authorizing every retail and commercial establishment and other establishment or facility in the County to open, provided that each establishment complies with facial covering requirements, provides hand sanitizer, uses reasonable efforts to ensure social distancing, and ensures that sick employees do not report to work. EO 33-20 also includes updated COVID Safety Guidelines; provides that individuals shall be required to wear a mask or other facial covering when in public (except as provided in the EO); and prohibits groups of 10 or more individuals from gathering on public property (except when such individuals are separated by appropriate social distancing).

With regard to the Countywide curfew, on April 7, 2021, Mayor Levine Cava issued Amendment No. 5 to County EO 27-20, which provides that the Countywide curfew shall expire on April 12, 2021, at 12:01 a.m.

The Interim City Manager’s Emergency Order has been amended to conform the City’s EO with the County EOs currently in effect. However, pending further direction from the City Commission, the Interim City Manager has maintained the restrictions in the City’s EO that (i) prohibit music or entertainment at a volume that exceeds the level of a normal conversation (i.e. that exceeds an “ambient” volume level), and (ii) prohibit package liquor sales after 10:00 p.m. each night (except in the MXE district and the CD-2 districts adjoining the MXE district, where package liquor sales are prohibited after 8:00 p.m. each night).