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Staff Report for a Resolution Adopting the City of San Leandro 2015 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the City of San Leandro 2015 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
BACKGROUND
The Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and the guidelines established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) require that local jurisdictions periodically prepare a hazard mitigation plan that addresses hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities as they relate to disasters. Federal funding for disaster mitigation projects and recovery post disaster is contingent upon adoption of a current plan.
The City has previously drafted and adopted two local hazard mitigation plans, one in 2005 and a second in 2010. The 2005 plan was a stand-alone document that was specific to the City of San Leandro and the 2010 plan was a multi-agency plan done in conjunction with other Bay Area agencies and coordinated by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG).
Analysis
The goal of the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) is to document the City's mitigation strategies and resistance to disasters to reduce the potential for injury, loss of life, property damage, and environmental degradation from a natural disaster as well as increase the speed of economic recovery after a natural disaster.
Adoption of the plan commits the City to working on the listed mitigation strategies to the extent that funding is available. Adoption of the plan is also required to be eligible for certain federal aid and in particular the FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant that staff is currently preparing for submittal.
The proposed plan contains 7 mitigation strategies:
1. Point Source Flood Protection
2. Shoreline Flood Protection
3. Hillside Road Protection
4. State of the Art Wireless Network at Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
5. Redundant Phone System at EOC
6. Redundant Computer Aided Dispatch (...
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