COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 220010


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Providing certain City employees up to 80 hours paid leave for Coronavirus Disease 2019 quarantine due to a positive test, offset by the number of Emergency Paid Sick Leave hours utilized under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Ordinance Nos. 210029 and 210729.

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WHEREAS, the United States Congress provided up to 80 hours Emergency Paid Sick Leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Pub. L. No. 116-127, 134. Stat. 195, to employees of local governments when they were required to quarantine for various reasons related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); and

WHEREAS, the provision of paid leave to local government employees under the FFCRA expired December 31, 2020 and was not renewed by the United States Congress; and

WHEREAS, the Council provided paid leave for City employees required to quarantine who had not already utilized the leave previously provided under the FFCRA by Ordinance No. 210029; and

WHEREAS, in Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 210729, the Council renewed the provisions of Ordinance No. 210029 for employees who had not already utilized the leave previously provided under the FFCRA and Ordinance 210029 and who had taken the additional precaution of getting vaccinated against COVID-19; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 210729 expired December 31, 2021; and

WHEREAS, Kansas City currently has a fully vaccinated rate of only fifty-four percent; and

WHEREAS, cases of COVID-19 have increased with high community transmission of COVID-19 throughout Missouri, threatening both unvaccinated and vaccinated employees; and

WHEREAS, the Health Department has noted breakthrough cases and Delta variant cases among vaccinated and unvaccinated people in Kansas City; and

WHEREAS, Omicron variant cases has been rising across the country, spreading across much of...

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