Call to Order

CALL TO ORDER
CITY COUNCIL ROLL CALL

Item 1

An emergency measure ordinance of the City of Mesquite, Texas, authorized pursuant to Mesquite
City Charter, Article IV, Section 18 and Section 19; declaring a Local State of Disaster for Public
Health Emergency related to COVID-19; continuing the Mayor’s Declaration of Local Disaster
issued on March 23, 2020; confirming the activation of the City’s emergency management plans;
adopting and approving certain rules and orders to protect the health and safety of persons in the City
and to help abate the public health emergency; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to make
certain decisions and to take necessary actions to meet City objectives to have City government
remain functional while providing essential governmental services during this rapidly changing
environment created by the public health emergency; making various findings and provisions related
to the subject; making it an offense to fail to comply with a state, local, or interjurisdictional
emergency management plan or any rule, order or ordinance adopted under the plan and providing a
penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or confinement in jail for a term
that does not exceed 180 days for each offense; providing for publication; providing a repealing
clause; providing a conflicts resolution clause; providing a severability clause; declaring an effective
date; and declaring an expiration date.


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