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Resolution continuing to declare and ratify the existence of a local emergency relating to major storm and flooding events.
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WHEREAS, Government Code sections 8630 and 8634, contained within Article 14 of the California Emergency Services Act, empower the City Council and Director of Emergency Services to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a Local Emergency when the City of South San Francisco ("City") is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity; and
WHEREAS, Section 2.72.060 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code empowers the City Manager, in the City Manager's capacity as the Director of Emergency Services, to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a Local Emergency when the City is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity and the City Council is not in session, or to request the City Council to proclaim such a state of Local Emergency; and
WHEREAS, South San Francisco Municipal Code section 2.72.060 (a)(1) provides that whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services, the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven (7) days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect; and
WHEREAS, South San Francisco Municipal Code section 2.72.020 defines "emergency" for the purposes of proclaiming a Local Emergency as "the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within this city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or imminent threat of war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of this city, requiring the combi...
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