A. 
Centers for the protection of homeless individuals and families during inclement weather is vital, whether due to extreme cold, extreme heat, poor air quality conditions, severe storms, or other types of civil emergencies.
B. 
The city council has, from time to time in the past, passed resolutions stating the guidelines and triggering conditions for the activation of emergency warming centers in the city of Manteca, noting that extreme weather conditions can create an extreme danger for homeless people in Manteca and puts a great strain on service providers.
C. 
An inclement weather center can be located or constructed on any land owned or leased by the city of Manteca or the successor agency to the Manteca Redevelopment Agency, including land acquired with low- and moderate-income housing funds.
(Ord. O2019-16 § 1; Ord. O2020-02 § 1)
A. 
The activation criteria for inclement weather centers in the city of Manteca is as follows:
1. 
A private nonprofit organization filing a 501(c)3 with the state may apply with the city of Manteca to activate an inclement weather center on city or successor agency owned property and the city may approve the use as temporary use via a temporary use permit.
2. 
Warming centers can be established with an approved temporary use permit between the dates of December 1 and March 31; and any other day during which the temperature is predicted by the National Weather Service to be forty degrees Fahrenheit or lower as a daily low and designated shelter space within the City was at ninety percent capacity or greater during the previous night. The city may, upon request by a center provider, raise the activation temperature for warming centers, but in no event will the activation temperature be higher than fifty-two degrees Fahrenheit.
3. 
Cooling centers can be established with an approved temporary use permit and activated when the temperature is predicted by the National Weather Service to be one hundred degrees Fahrenheit or higher for three consecutive days or more.
4. 
Safe air centers can be established with an approved temporary use permit and activated for any day on which the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District forecasts the current air quality index to reach two hundred fifty or higher.
5. 
Wind shelter centers can be established with an approved temporary use permit and activated when Manteca is subject to sustained winds of over twenty mph.
6. 
A temporary use permit may be approved for an inclement weather center and be activated by the city manager or city manager's designee on city or successor agency owned property any day in which a civil emergency or extreme storm or weather condition exists or is predicted to occur and which, in the determination of the city manager or city manager's designee, poses a severe threat to the health or safety of homeless individuals and families in the city of Manteca.
7. 
The operation of an inclement weather station shall comply with all life and safety codes to the satisfaction of the city manager or designee.
B. 
The city manager shall implement the appropriate policies and procedures, including, without limitation, partnering with inclement weather center providers for grant funding requests; the designation of specific locations to be used as warming, cooling, safe air and wind shelter centers; and the arrangement of other appropriate measures and conditions to the city council in order to carry out the specific provisions and intent of this section.
(Ord. O2019-16 § 1; Ord. O2020-02 § 1)