Resolution 15515CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15515
AMENDING THE CITY OF ALAMEDA EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN
WHEREAS, the preservation of life, property, and the environment is an inherent
responsibility of local government; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda may be subjected to emergencies and disasters
of all types; and
WHEREAS, the California Emergency Services Act requires cities to have an
Emergency Operations Plan to ensure effective and efficient operations in the event of
emergency or disaster; and
WHEREAS, the Federal National Incident Management System (NIMS) and
California's Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) legislation require
the creation, maintenance, training, and exercising of emergency response protocols by
every local government; and
WHEREAS, the State Legislature mandated that all such plans be written using
the SEMS structure; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda Emergency Operations Plan describes how the
City of Alameda will manage and respond to major emergency incidents including
implementation of an Incident Command System, the Standardized Emergency
Management System, and the National Incident Management System; and
WHEREAS, all City department heads have had opportunity to review and
comment on the plan as written.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Alameda does resolve, declare, determine, and order the following:
SECTION 1 . Accepts and adopts the Emergency Operations Plan attached hereto
and incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 2. The Emergency Operations Plan will be reviewed, revised, andre-
promulgated every five years or whenever substantial changes occur.
SECTION 3. Changes to the annexes and appendices, and non-substantive
changes to the Basic Plan, may be made without formal City Council approval.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of April, 2019, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft-5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said City this 3rd day of April 2019.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Michael H. Roush, Interim City Attorney
City of Alameda
Lara Weisiger, it Clerk
City of Alameda