CC Resolution 10559
RESOLUTION NO.
10559
RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS
THE CITY OF CAMPBELL'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as ground
shaking, liquefaction, land sliding, 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 Campbell understands that disasters do not recognize city, county, or
special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Campbell 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 Campbell 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 of Campbell adopts, and adapts with
its local annex, this multi-jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Campbell commits to
continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in
the City's Annex of that multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of September, 2005, by the following roll call vote:
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Burr, Hernandez, Furtado, Watson
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
None
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Kennedy
API?ROVED:
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By Jeanette Watson, Vice Mayor
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nne Bybee, City Clerk