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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 007-2006RESOLUTION NO. 7-2006 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE CITY OF BURLINGAME'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN RESOLVED, by the CITY COUNCIL of the City of Burlingame, California: 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 Burlingame recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county, or special district boundaries; and WHEREAS, the City of Burlingame 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 Burlingame is committed to increasing 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, the Association of Bay Area Governments (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, 1 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: 1. The City of Burlingame adopts, and adapts with its local annex, this multi - jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. 2. The City of Burlingame commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the City Annex of the multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. Mayor I, DORIS MORTENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of February , 2006, and was adopted thereafter by the following vote. AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: EAYLOCK, CO EN, REImm, NAGEL, olmmoNy NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ity Clerk SAA Public Works DirectorylStaff Reports\Building Dept\LocalHazardPlan.bld.wpd 2