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Resolution 144490 CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 14 4 4 9 AUTHORIZING THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO IMPLEMENT A CITY WIDE POLICY ON INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is a member agency of the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program (ACCWP) and fully participates in the activities, benefits, duties, and responsibilities of the ACCWP as reflected in the existing agreement to implement the ACCWP as approved in 1991 and amended in 1998, 2001, and 2004; and WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is required to operate in conformance with a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit as prescribed by the Federal Clean Water Act with respect to discharges of storm water from its storm water drainage and collection system; and WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is a permittee under the ACCWP NPDES Permit from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), San Francisco Bay Region, reissued as Order R2 -2009 -0074 (NPDES Permit No. CAS612008) on October 14, 2009; and WHEREAS, Provision C.9., of the NPDES Permit Pesticides Toxicity Control, requires the City to adopt an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Policy or Ordinance no later than July 1, 2010; and WHEREAS, Provision C.9., of the NPDES Permit Pesticides Toxicity Control, further requires the City to establish written standard operating p g procedures for the implementation of IPM by municipal employees and contractors in adherence with this IPM Policy or Ordinance; and WHEREAS, Provision C.9., of the NPDES Permit Pesticides Toxicity Control, further requires the City to report to the California RVVQCB, San Francisco Bay Region, on IPM implementation on an annual basis; and WHEREAS, Provision C.9., of the NPDES Permit Pesticides Toxicity Control, of the City's NPDES Permit further requires the City to ensure that all municipal employees who, within the scope of their duties, appl y or use pesticides that threaten water quality, are trained in IPM practices and the City's 1 PM policy; and WHEREAS, Provision C.9., of the NPDES Permit Pesticides Toxicity Control, of the City's NPDES Permit further requires the City, no later than July 1, 2010, to hire either IPM - certified contractors or include contract specifications requiring contractors to implement IPM; and WHEREAS, a City of Alameda 1 PM Policy has been prepared to provide City departments that use pesticides with an appropriate framework to prepare department- specific procedures to implement these above- stated requirements of Provision C.9., Pesticides Toxicity Control, of the City's NPDES Permit; and WHEREAS, City departments have reviewed and accepted this city of Alameda IPM Policy. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Alameda authorizes the Interim City Manager to implement the City of Alameda IPM Policy. 1, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and � � regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda during in the Regular Meeting of the City Council on the 15th of June, 2010, by the followin g vote to wit: AYES: Councilmembers deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese, Tam and Mayor Johnson - 5. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 1 6th day of June, 2010. Lara Weisiger, City clerk City of Alameda