REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Sunnyvale Acknowledging Receipt of a Report from the Department of Public Safety Regarding Annual Fire and Life Safety Inspections Pursuant to Sections 13146.2 Through 13146.4 of the California Health and Safety Code
Report
BACKGROUND
California Senate Bill 1205 (SB 1205) requires that fire departments provide a report to their city council every year demonstrating compliance with mandatory annual fire inspections of all public and private schools, hotels, motels, lodging houses and apartment houses. The law also requires the City Council to acknowledge receipt of the information by resolution or another similar formal document.
EXISTING POLICY
* Council Policy Goal 4.2C: Reduce the demand for fire suppression and hazardous materials response, reduce the severity of the incidents and provide protection for the lives, welfare, and environment of people within the community.
* California Health and Safety Code Section 13146.2: requires all fire departments providing fire protection services to inspect annually all hotels, motels, lodging houses and apartment houses.
* California Health and Safety Code Section 13146.3: requires all fire departments providing fire protection services to inspect every building used as a public or private school within its jurisdiction no less than once each year.
* California Health and Safety Code Section 13146.4: requires every fire department that performs annual public and private school, hotel, motel, lodging house and apartment house inspections to report annually to the city council on its compliance with such annual inspections. The annual report to the council shall be acknowledged in a resolution or other similar formal document.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action under consideration does not constitute a "project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to section 15378(a) as it has no potentia...
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