REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Adopt by Resolution Volume I and Sunnyvale's Annex Within Volume II of the 2017 Santa Clara County Operational Area Hazard Mitigation Plan
Report
BACKGROUND
In July of 2016, a coalition of Santa Clara County cities and special districts embarked on a planning process to prepare for and lessen the impacts of specified natural hazards by updating the Santa Clara County Operational Area Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP). The HMP is the blueprint for reducing the Operational Area's vulnerability to disasters and hazards. Responding to federal mandates in the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390), the partnership was formed to pool resources and to create a uniform hazard mitigation strategy that can be consistently applied to the defined planning area and used to ensure eligibility for specified grant funding success.
This effort represents the third comprehensive update to the initial hazard mitigation plan, approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in November of 2005 and developed in partnership with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), as well as a return to a truly regional effort following the 2010 planning process. The 16-member coalition of partners involved in this program includes unincorporated Santa Clara County, 14 city and town governments and the Santa Clara County Fire District. The planning area for the hazard mitigation plan was defined as the Santa Clara County Operational Area. The result of the organizational effort will be a FEMA and California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) approved multi-jurisdictional, multi-hazard mitigation plan. Climate change is incorporated as a summary assessment of current and anticipated impacts for each identified hazard of concern.
The hazard identification and profiling in the HMP addresses the following hazards of concern within Santa Clara County: dam failure, drought, earthquake, flood, landslide, severe weather, tsunami, and w...
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