AGENDA
ITEM
1 AGENDA
ITEM
CALEXICO California
MEXICO MEET 1
CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA STAFF REPORT
DATE: September 25, 2025
TO: Mayor and City Council
APPROVED BY: Benjamin A. Martinez, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Benjamin A. Martinez, City Manager
SUBJECT: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-61 Declaring a Local Emergency Related to the Severe Storm of September 18, 2025.
Recommendation:
Adopt Resolution No. 2025-61 Declaring a Local Emergency Related to the Severe Storm of September 18, 2025.
Background:
On Thursday, September 18, 2025, the City of Calexico experienced heavy rainfall and wind. The City Manager determined that circumstances of extreme peril to public safety were very severe. As a result, the City Manager declared a local emergency related to the impacts created by this storm.
Discussion and Analysis:
Calexico Municipal Code section 2.36.060(A)(1) empowers the City Manager, acting as the Director of Emergency Services, to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency when the City is exposed to an actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the City and the City Council is not in session.
The City Manager respectfully requests the city council to adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Calexico California declaring a local emergency related to the severe storm which occurred on September 18, 2025.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no fiscal impact concerning the adoption of this resolution.
Coordinated With:
City Attorney
Attachments):
1. Resolution
ATTACHMENT NO. 1
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-61
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CALEXICO,
CALIFORNIA DECLARING A LOCAL EMERGENCY RELATED TO
THE SEVERE STORM OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2025
WHEREAS, the City of Calexico is experiencing flooding, severe storm, beginning on September 18, 2025 which has caused and/or threatens to cause conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the City of Calexico; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Calexico is empowered under Government Code Section 8630 and Calexico Municipal Code to proclaim the existence of a local emergency; and WHEREAS, these conditions are beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the City of Calexico; and
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED by the City Manager of the City of Calexico that a local emergency exists in the City of Calexico, effective September 18, 2025 8:05 p.m.
IT IS FURTHER PROCLAIMED AND ORDERED that during the existence of said local emergency the powers, functions, and duties of the emergency organization of this City shall be those prescribed by state law, by ordinances and resolutions of this City, and by the City of Calexico Emergency Operations Plan.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Director of the Imperial County Office of Emergency Services, the Governor of the State of California, and the State Director of the Office of Emergencies.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Calexico held on the 25th day of September 2025, by the following roll call vote:
YES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Diana Nuricumbo, Mayor
City of Calexico
ATTEST:
Veronica Luna-Alvarado, City Clerk
City of Calexico
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Carlos Campos, City Attorney
City of Calexico