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Susana Barrios
From:Laura Cunningham <Laura@anaheimchamber.org>
Sent:Tuesday, June 27, 2023 3:35 PM
To:Ashleigh Aitken; Natalie Rubalcava; Jose Diaz; Carlos A. Leon; Norma C. Kurtz; Stephen
Faessel; Natalie Meeks
Cc:City Clerk
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Agenda Item 23 - Safety Ordinance
Attachments:Agenda Item 23 - Safety Ordinance - Letter to Council.pdf
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Dear Mayor Aitken and Members of the City Council,
Attached please find our support letter for Agenda Item 23 on today’s agenda.
L AURA C UNNINGHAM
President & CEO
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laura@anaheimchamber.org
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June 27, 2023
Mayor and City Council
Anaheim City Hall
200 South Anaheim Boulevard
Anaheim, California 92805
RE: SUPPORT – Agenda Item 23 – Adoption of Ordinance adding Chapter 6.101
(Hotel Worker Protections) to Title 6 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to
provide safety and security measures for hotel workers in Anaheim.
Dear Mayor Aitken, Mayor Pro Tem Rubalcava, and Members of the City Council:
The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce supports Agenda Item 23 to adopt the Hotel
Worker Protection ordinance. Safety is the top priority of Anaheim’s hotels and
Anaheim’s business community. This ordinance is a consensus item that protects the
safety of hotel workers by giving them personal security devices to activate if they are
threatened, at risk of violence, or in another emergency situation with response from
designated hotel personnel to respond to those activations.
The ordinance also requires hotels to provide their employees with training regarding
the rights, responsibilities, and protections of the ordinance and to notify hotel guests
about these worker protections. Additionally, this ordinance protects workers who
exercise the above rights.
The Chamber also thanks Mayor Pro Tem Rubalcava for her op-ed in today’s Orange
County Register (“The way forward on hotel worker safety in Anaheim”). She shares
the story of her grandmother’s work as a motel housekeeper in Anaheim and
emphasizes the importance of hotel worker safety and this ordinance.
For all these reasons, the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce supports Agenda Item 23 to
adopt the ordinance adding hotel worker protections as Chapter 6.101 to Title 6 of the
Anaheim Municipal Code.
Sincerely,
Laura Cunningham
President and CEO