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RESOLUTION NO. 65-2006
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SOUTH SAN
FRANCISCO LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as
ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, 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 South San Francisco recognIzes that disasters do not
recognize city, county, or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco seeks to maintain and enhance both a
disaster-resistant City of South San Francisco 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 South San Francisco is committed to increasing the disaster
resistance of the infrastructure, health, housing, eCOnOITIY, government services, education,
environment, and land use systems in the City of South San Francisco, 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 Council of the City of South
San Francisco adopts, and adapts with its local annex, the attached ITIulti-jurisdictional plan
as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
BE IT, FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of South San Francisco commits to
continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in
the City of South San Francisco Annex of that multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation
Plan.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and adopted
by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a speciallneeting held on the 16th
day of August 2006 by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmelnbers Mark N. Addiego, Pedro Gonzalez and Karyl Matsumoto,
Vice Mayor Richard A. Garbarino and Mayor Joseph A. F emekes
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
ATTEST: