Residential Evictions Prohibited Until May 31, 2020
City Homelessness Outreach Efforts
New Help for Small Businesses & Workers Displaced by COVID-19
Free COVID-19 Testing Available
Let's make a Culver City connection and talk soon. We’ll call you!
Feeling Blue? You Are Not Alone.
Do You Need A Volunteer?
Call for Volunteers
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
1. Consider Wearing a Cloth Face Covering in Public
The CDC now recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings, such as when leaving home for a short period of time to obtain essential goods or services. Wearing a face covering is not a substitute for existing guidance about social (physical) distancing and frequent handwashing, but a face covering could serve as an additional tool used to protect us from exposure to, or spread of COVID-19 when used properly. Recent information indicates that individuals can be contagious before showing symptoms. The primary role of a cloth face covering is to reduce the spread of infectious droplets when someone speaks, coughs, or sneezes, including someone who has COVID-19 but feels well.
Do not purchase respirators or face masks intended for the healthcare setting (including N95 respirators and surgical masks) as they are in short supply and will be increasingly needed to safely provide care for persons with COVID-19.
Acceptable, reusable face covering options for the general public include:
Bandanas
Neck gaiters
Homemade face coverings
Scarves
Tightly woven fabric, such as cotton t-shirts and some types of towels
To make every effort to help people stay home and slow the spread of COVID-19, the City of Culver City is continuing relaxed parking enforcement through April 27, 2020.
Relaxed Enforcement includes:
Relaxed enforcement of street sweeping restrictions in residential areas
Relaxed enforcement around closed schools
Moratorium on ticketing and towing for abandoned vehicles and oversize vehicle overnight parking fines
Freeze on parking fine increases for the next 60 days
Extended grace period for people dropping off or picking up groceries and goods
Immediate extension on all deadlines for payment due until June 1
The relaxed enforcement is in place until April 27, 2020 and is subject to extension. Enforcement will be maintained on operations that prioritize health, safety, and emergency access — including colored curb zones, peak-hour restrictions, and residential permit parking. Parking enforcement will also continue at metered spaces to encourage parking availability for businesses and restaurants relying on takeout and deliveries.
While parking enforcement on street sweeping days has been temporarily suspended, street sweeping services are still occurring. Understanding that the street sweeper must maneuver around parked cars, many residents have inquired about the relaxed enforcement, and on their own have moved their vehicles off the street on posted street sweeping days.
The City kindly requests motorists to move their cars when possible on street sweeping days during this relaxed enforcement period. If there are any leaves or trash in the curb area that the sweeper cannot reach because of parked cars, the City asks residents to sweep such material out into the street beyond the parked cars an hour or so before the scheduled sweeping time. Or, residents can sweep up the materials and place in their green bins for collection.
4. Residential Evictions Prohibited Until May 31, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a residential tenant eviction moratorium is currently in place that prohibits all evictions of residential tenants through May 31, 2020, subject to certain limited exceptions.
On March 16, 2020, the City issued a Public Order that landlords may not evict a residential tenant if the tenant is able to show inability to pay Rent due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 27, 2020, the City Manager issued a Second Supplement to the Public Order that expands the scope of the moratorium on residential tenant evictions (except those necessary for public health and safety) and extends such moratorium through May 31, 2020. Among other things, the expanded provisions in that Public Order state that residential tenants do not have to show an inability to pay rent because of circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 2, 2020, the City Council adopted a resolution confirming the March 27, 2020 Second Supplement to the Public Order, issued by the City Manager. On April 3, 2020, the City Manager issued amended rules and implementation measures regarding the residential tenant eviction moratorium.
Through the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), staff from the City, the Culver City Police Department and Culver City Fire Department have established a weekly homeless outreach schedule to check in on individuals living in encampments, on the streets, and in their vehicles. These efforts will give the EOC a greater sense of the health and well-being of the unsheltered community and provide an opportunity to offer ongoing COVID-19 education and hand sanitizers.
6. New Help for Small Businesses & Workers Displaced by COVID-19
The City of Los Angeles has made free testing available to residents of Los Angeles County, including Culver City residents. Anyone who is interested in getting tested must first register on the screening website. This first step will determine if you are eligible to be tested.
You will be asked to answer basic questions including name, date of birth, address, and whether you are exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, coughing, and difficulty breathing. After you answer all screening questions, the website (in real time) determines your testing eligibility and will identify the nearest testing site.
At this time, this COVID-19 testing is limited to the most vulnerable of LA County residents—those who are 65 and older and/or have underlying health conditions.
8. Let's make a Culver City connection and talk soon. We’ll call YOU!
We want you to know that we are here for you. If you or another Culver City resident would like a check-in call for a quick chat, let us know. Our friendly City staff are making weekly phone calls to any residents 18 and older just to say “hi," see how you are doing, or offer information and resources. You don’t need a reason—we’ll call you. If you would like to sign-up for the weekly phone call program, give us a ring at (310) 253-6890.
9. Feeling Blue? You Are Not Alone.
If the news surrounding COVID-19 is making you feel stressed, anxious, or depressed, call LACDMH 24/7 hotline at (800) 854-7771 or text LA to 741741 to get help.
10. Do You Need a Volunteer?
If you or someone you know has a non-emergency, non-medical need related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and you would like assistance from a volunteer, please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, address, phone number, email address, and your need. In an emergency, please dial 9-1-1.
11. Call for Volunteers
If you would like to volunteer to help the City assist those in need (including older adults), please email the City or call the City’s Coronavirus Hotline at (310) 253-6890 (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). If you email or leave a message at the Hotline after hours, please include your name, phone number, email address, and any special skills you may have (language, equipment, certifications, etc.) and preferred volunteer activity (deliver groceries to older adults, make phone calls, etc.) You can also find additional volunteer opportunities on the California Volunteers webpage.
12. Neighbors Helping Neighbors
If you are able to assist a neighbor who is 65 or older, or a neighbor who has an underlying medical condition, reach out via phone, text, or drop a note on their doorstep to ask if they need anything before you go to the grocery store or pharmacy. We are all in this together.
