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Report regarding a resolution continuing to declare and ratify the existence of a local emergency relating to major storm and flooding events. (Sharon Ranals, City Manager and Sky Woodruff, City Attorney)
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RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution continuing to declare and ratify the existence of a local emergency, initially proclaimed by the City Manager in her capacity as the Director of Emergency Services, relating to major storm and flooding events.
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BACKGROUND
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.
Under the Municipal Code, an "emergency" for the purpose of declaring a Local Emergency is defined as "the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property" within South San Francisco, caused by conditions such as "air pollution, fire, flood, storm. . ." In such circumstances, the City Manager acting as the Director of Emergency Services is authorized to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a Local Emergency if the City Council is not in session, or to request the City Council to proclaim such a state of Local Emergency.
On January 3, 2023, the City Manager, in her capacity as the Director of Emergency Services, issued a proclamation proclaiming the existence of a Local Emergency due to major storm and flooding events. As shown by events leading up to that proclamation, South San Francisco has experienced unprecedented atmospheric river weather events, which resulted in storm, heavy rainfall and damaging winds that have continued throughout the weeks after. These severe weather conditions have resulted in floodi...
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