Resolution 13832CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13 8 3 2
APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE CITY OF
ALAMEDA'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
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® ^ WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake- related hazards such as
® ground shaking, liquefaction, land sliding, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and
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WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather - related hazards including
aso wildfires, floods, and landslides; and
- - WHEREAS, the City of Alameda recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county,
or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster - resistant
City of Alameda 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 Alameda is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the
infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land
use systems in the City of Alameda, 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 of Alameda adopts, and adapts
with its local annex, this multi jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Alameda commits
to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in
the City of Alameda Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
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 the regular meeting of the City
Council on the 19th day of April, 2005, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese
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 20th day of April, 2005.
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Lara Weisiger, City
City of Alameda