CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
              CITY COUNCIL AGENDA



   Agenda Date:          January 19, 2021

   Action Required:      Resolution Adoption

   Staff Contacts:       John C. Blair, Acting City Manager

   Presenters:           Sena Magill, Vice-Mayor

   Title:                Resolution of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims



Background:

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken over 385,000 lives in the United States since
January 2020. President-elect Biden has requested that January 19, 2021 be a day of
remembrance for the lives lost to COVID-19.

Discussion:

Locally, the Blue Ridge Health District has seen 97 residents’ lives lost due to COVID-19 and
the City of Charlottesville has seen 34 residents’ lives lost due to COVID-19. (Numbers are
current as of January 12, 2021).

The attached Resolution would designate January 19, 2021 as a local day of remembrance for the
lives lost to COVID-19.

Attachment: Resolution
                        RESOLUTION OF REMEMBERANCE FOR
                             THOSE LOST TO COVID-19


        WHEREAS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first
case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States on January 21, 2020; and

       WHEREAS, COVID-19 has taken the lives of 385,000 Americans since January 21,
2020; and

       WHEREAS, COVID-19 has taken the lives of over 30 Charlottesville residents since
January 21, 2020; and

       WHEREAS, President-elect Joe Biden has asked the nation to come together on January
19, 2021 in a nationwide public moment of recognition of lives lost to COVID-19.

        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of
Charlottesville, Virginia that it hereby honors the memory of all the lives lost to the COVID-19
global pandemic and recognized January 19, 2021 as a citywide Day of Remembrance in honor
of those who have perished since the pandemic began.