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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTC Res 2012-03-07RESOLUTION NO. 10-2012 A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF TIBURON ADOPTING THE ASSOCIATION OF BAY AREA GOVERNMENTS (ABAG) REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE TOWN OF TIBURON'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including wildfires, floods, and landslides; and WHEREAS, the Town of Tiburon recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county, or special district boundaries; and WHEREAS, the Town of Tiburon seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster- resistant Town 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 Town of Tiburon is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land use systems in the Town of Tiburon, 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 Sad Francisco Bay Area; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Tiburon 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 Town of Tiburon commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the Town of Tiburon Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. TIBURON TOWN COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 10-2012 PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council on March 7, 2012 by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Collins, Doyle, Fraser, Fredericks, O'Donnell NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None JIM FRAM TOWN df ATTE T: J /AI l DIANE CRAN4j COPI, TOWN CLERK 1AYOR URON TIBURON TOWN COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 10-2012 2