Covina
City Council
Agenda Item 1
NB 1. Adoption of Urgency Ordinance Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on Battery\nEnergy Storage Systems (BESS)\nStaff Recommendation:\nRequest the City Council adopt Ordinance 25-01, entitled “An Urgency Ordinance of the City\nCouncil of the City of Covina, California, enacted pursuant to Government Code Section\n65858 establishing a moratorium on accepting and processing any new entitlement\napplications and/or issuing any permits for new Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)\nwithin the City limits; declaring the urgency thereof and making a determination of exemption\nunder the California Environmental Quality Act”.