COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENERGY
April 22, 2020
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, As the City of Chicago confronts the unprecedented public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, our residents and business are facing devastating illness, stay-at-home orders, social distancing requirements, self-quarantines, lost wages, and financial hardship; and
WHEREAS, Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have taken difficult, yet necessary, steps to combat the spread of COVID-19 and "flatten the curve", including issuing stay-at-home orders, requiring "non-essential" business to be closed to the public, prohibiting dine-in service at bars and restaurant, and closing schools, parks, and other public facilities; and
WHEREAS, Executive Order 2020-10 issued by Governor Pritzker on March 20, 2020 implemented the stay-at-home order, categorizing businesses as essential or nonessential and establishing conditions to encourage employees considered essential to work from home; and
WHEREAS, Residents and businesses practicing social distancing and following good hygiene, sanitation, and health directives designed to decrease the spread of COVID-19 must be able to adequately dispose of waste produced during this public health emergency; and
WHEREAS, Employees working in sanitation and waste hauling are essential in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, and their work must continue in order to promote and secure the health, safety, and welfare of all Chicagoans; and
WHEREAS, The members of the City Council of the City of Chicago are committed to doing everything in our power to support Chicagoans in these difficult times, including preserving public and private residential and commercial trash removal and recycling services, as disruption of these services would pose an immediate danger to the health and safety of our City during the COVID-19 pandemic; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this twe...
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