The City of Santa Ana is immediately hiring COVID-19 relief workers to provide community outreach and customer service.

This is a part-time at-will limited duration assignment utilizing State and Federal COVID-19 relief funding. The anticipated assignment will last 90 days, or less, depending on funding availability. Must be bilingual in English AND Spanish or Vietnamese.

Read the full job descriptions here:

Santa Ana City Manager Kristine Ridge has signed an executive order extending until Sept. 30, 2020, the moratorium on evictions due to non-payment of rent by residential and commercial tenants impacted by COVID-19.

In response to Governor Newsom’s latest action on COVID-related closures statewide and for counties on the State’s targeted engagement list, the Santa Ana City Council will revert to virtual meetings beginning on July 21, 2020.

Food trucks are now allowed to use private parking lots and certain City owned parking lots for vending activities under a resolution approved last week by the Santa Ana City Council. Resolution No. 2020-055 suspends the requirement of a Land Use Certificate for food vending vehicles to operate in these locations.

(NOTE: The following information was provided by the County of Orange.)

Beginning today, July 15, the County of Orange is opening a large-scale drive-through COVID-19 testing site at the Anaheim Convention Center in a collaboration with 360 Clinic and the City of Anaheim.

Applications are now being accepted for $10,000 grants to help small businesses, nonprofits and independent contractors in Santa Ana and other cities in Orange County’s First District who have been negatively impacted by COVID-19. The deadline to apply is Friday, July 31, 2020, at 5 p.m.

This CARES Act-funded program is being administered by the Office of First District Supervisor Andrew Do. The cities in the First District include Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Westminster, a portion of Fountain Valley, and Midway City.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced statewide closures of many indoor operations and closures of additional indoor operations in counties on the State’s monitoring list, including Orange County.

Santa Ana City Hall will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2020, in observance of Independence Day.

There will be no street sweeping on July 3. Trash collection will take place as scheduled.

As previously announced, this year the City of Santa Ana is not having the annual Fourth of July Celebration at Centennial Park in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.