Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Dave Pine, District 1
Supervisor Warren Slocum, District 4
Subject: San Mateo County Environmental Health Fee Relief Program for Certain Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Director of the Environmental Health Services Division ("EHS") of San Mateo County Health, or designee(s), to design and implement a San Mateo County Environmental Health Fee Relief Program at a total cost not to exceed $5,800,000, including a $650,000 contribution from EHS, pursuant to which a one-time credit equal to the cost of qualifying annual EHS fees would be issued to certain EHS-regulated businesses that had sales revenues directly impacted by COVID-19 Health Orders and that are within designated EHS permit fee categories or industry categories.
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BACKGROUND:
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the series of state and local health orders restricting certain types of economic activity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (collectively, "COVID-19 Health Orders"), have had a devastating impact on certain sectors of the economy in San Mateo County, with revenue losses hitting small businesses particularly hard.
Businesses with permitted spas and pools, hotels, body art and massage businesses have been required to close or significantly curtail their operations at various times since March 2020. Significantly impacted retail food service operations include confectioners, bakeries, coffee shops, bars, breweries, wineries, restaurants, cottage food operations, mobile food trucks and carts, and caterers. Other businesses, such as dry cleaners, gas stations, and small auto repair shops, which were not required to close, were impacted by the restricted movement of residents during this period. Many of these impacted businesses are small, independently owned businesses.
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