File #: 20-0905R    Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/7/2020 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 12/21/2020 Final action: 12/21/2020
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT CITY ADMINISTRATION NOT ENFORCE ORDINANCE 10662 REGARDING FIVE CENT PER PLASTIC BAG CHARGE UNTIL THE NEW EFFECTIVE DATE SET BY ORDINANCE 20-061-O WHICH IS 90 DAYS AFTER BOTH THE CITY'S COVID-19 LOCAL HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTA COVID-19 PEACETIME EMERGENCY END.
Sponsors: Gary Anderson

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RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT CITY ADMINISTRATION NOT ENFORCE ORDINANCE 10662 REGARDING FIVE CENT PER  PLASTIC BAG CHARGE UNTIL THE NEW EFFECTIVE DATE SET BY ORDINANCE 20-061-O WHICH IS 90 DAYS AFTER BOTH THE CITY’S COVID-19 LOCAL HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTA COVID-19 PEACETIME EMERGENCY END.

 

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BY PRESIDENT ANDERSON:

                     BE IT RESOLVED, that council requests that the administration not enforce Ordinance 10662 until 90 days after both the city’s COVID-19 local health emergency declaration pursuant to Duluth City Code section 17-7 and the state of Minnesota COVID-19 peacetime emergency end, the new effective date provided for in Ordinance 20-061-O.

 

Statement of Purpose

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:  The purpose of this resolution is to request that the administration not enforce the five cent per plastic carryout bag charge until 90 days after both the city’s local health emergency and the state’s peacetime COVID-19 emergency end. The current implementation date for the City Council’s five cent per plastic carryout bag charge is January 1, 2021.