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RESOLUTION NO.3 SERIES 2021 A RESOLUTION APPROVING A SMALL BUSINESS PRESERVATION GRANT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the City of Louisville (the "City") is a home -rule city and municipal corporation duly organized and existing under and pursuant to Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and Charter of the City; and WHEREAS, the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic continues to cause widespread human and economic impacts to the City of Louisville; and WHEREAS, on March 10, 2020, the Governor of the State of Colorado issued a Declaration of Statewide Emergency in response to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, on March 15, 2020, the Mayor of the City, pursuant to Chapter 2.32 of the Louisville Municipal Code and C.R.S. § 24-33.5-709, executed a Declaration of Local Disaster Emergency in and for the City (the "Mayor's Declaration") in response to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 27, Series 2020, adopted on March 16, 2020, the City Council continued in effect the Mayor's Declaration until terminated by resolution of the City Council; and WHEREAS, the City Council has taken several actions intended to help its residents and businesses with the impacts of COVID-19 and to continue governmental operations during the Pandemic; and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 31, Series 2020, adopted on April 17, 2020, the City Council created the Emergency Solutions Grant Program to address the devastating financial impact of COVID-19 on the Louisville business community; WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 60, Series 2020, adopted on August 11, 2020, the City Council launched the Recovery and Improvement Matching Grant program to support businesses attempting to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that since adoption of the last grant program, the impacts to COVID-19 on the community have increased significantly since Boulder County entered Level Red: Severe Risk on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ("CDPHE") Dial framework, further threatening the survival of small businesses; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that delays in state grant funding and the lack of a new federal stimulus package may result in such aid not arriving in time to meet the most urgent needs of the City's small businesses, and that a local program can operate with greater speed and efficiency to meet those critical, immediate needs; and Resolution No. 3, Series 2021 Page 1 of 2