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,
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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
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