ons specified in this subsection may be for a term no longer than one year; thereafter, further contracting for the same need shall be accomplished by competitive bidding whenever applicable; (3) The City Council may terminate a contract awarded under this subsection and require competitive bidding; and (4) The City Administrative Officer shall evaluate and report monthly to the City Council on the reasons justifying why each contract let pursuant to this subsection was necessary to respond to the emergency, including why the emergency did not permit a delay resulting from a competitive solicitation for bids or proposals and why competitive proposals or bidding was not reasonably practicable or compatible with the City’s interests. (e) Whenever the Mayor declares a local housing and/or homelessness emergency, the Chief Legislative Analyst's Office shall prepare, with the assistance of the City Attorney, a resolution ratifying the existence of a local housing and/or homelessness emergency. Such resolution shall be submitted by the Mayor to the City Clerk for presentation to the City Council. Within 30 days from the date of the original declaration by the Mayor, the City Council may consider the resolution and rescind it by majority vote. Thereafter, the declaration shall expire unless the City Council renews it by majority vote every 90 calendar days. (f) The City Administrative Officer and the General Managers of the Department of Housing and the Department of Planning, or their designee, shall monitor the state of the emergency, report quarterly, and provide the report to the Mayor and the City Council two weeks in advance of the quarter on the status of the emergency and the progress in addressing the emergency. (g) After the City Council reviews the quarterly reports in Section 8.33(c) from the City Administrative Officer and the General Managers of the Department of Housing and the Department of Planning, or their designee, if the City Council finds that a need for the emergency no longer exists, or the emergency is no longer beyond the control of the normal services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the regularly constituted components and departments of the City government, the City Council may act to terminate or not renew the declaration under this Section 8.33. SECTION HISTORY Added by Ord. No. 187,922, Eff. 7-5-23.