HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 12-010 RESOLUTION 12 -010
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA
APPROVING THE CITY OF SARATOGA ANNEX TO THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY
ANNEX TO THE 2010 ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE
CITY OF SARATOGA'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake- related hazards such as
ground shaking, liquefaction, landsliding, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather related hazards including
wildfires, floods, and landslides; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saratoga recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county,
or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster resistant City and
region by reducing the potential loss of life, property damage, and environmental degradation
from natural disasters, while accelerating economic recovery from those disasters; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saratoga is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the
infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land
use systems in the City, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole; and
WHEREAS, the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties, and
special districts to have adopted a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster mitigation
funding from FEMA; and
WHEREAS, ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report "Taming Natural
Disasters" as the multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay
Area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City adopts, and adopts with its local
annex, this multi jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City commits to continuing to
take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the City of
Saratoga Annex to the County of Santa Clara Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan and will consider including the mitigation strategies as the Implementation
Appendix of the Safety Element of its General Plan during the Safety Element update process
now underway and expected to be completed by December 2014.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Saratoga
City Council held on the 15 day of February 2012 by the following vote:
AYES: Council Member Manny Cappello, Emily Lo, Howard Miller, Vice Mayor Jill
Hunter, Mayor Chuck Page
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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ATTEST:
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Cry orrow, City Clerk