Agenda Item A.4
CONSENT CALENDAR
Meeting Date: May 7, 2024
TO: Mayor and Councilmembers
SUBMITTED BY: Megan Garibaldi, City Attorney
PREPARED BY: Winnie Cai, Assistant City Attorney
SUBJECT: Resolution Terminating Proclamation of Local Emergency Related to February 2024 Storm
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
Adopt Resolution No 24 -__, “A Resolution of the City Co uncil of the City of Goleta , California, Terminating the Local Emergency Proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services on February 4, 2024.”
BACKGROUND
On February 4, 2024, the City Manager, acting in the capacity of Director of Emergency Services, proclaimed a local emergency due to conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property caused by storms and flooding. The City Council ratified the proclamation on February 7, 2024, and extended the proclamation on March 19, 2024.
DISCUSSION
The law requires the City Council to periodically review the need for continuing the local emergency and to proclaim the termination of the local emergency at the earliest possible date that the conditions warrant. The Director of Emergency Services has reported on the actions taken in response to the local emergency and has advised that it is not necessary to continue the local emergency.
The City will continue to seek to recover costs and may continue to exercise authority under any federal, state, or c ounty emergency or disaster declaration arising from or related to the storms and floods that gave rise to the City’s declaration of local emergency.
The City will pursue reimbursement of costs expended on the local emergency and necessary repairs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”), which has announced federal disaster assistance is available to local governments that were affected by the severe winter storms, tornadoes, flooding, landslides and mudslides between January 31, 2024 through February 9, 2024 (DR -4769-CA) in Santa Barbara 1 Meeting Date: May 7, 2024
County.
Staff therefore recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Resolution to terminate the City’s local emergency in response to the February 2024 storm.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
ALTERNATIVES
None since the conditions justifying the declaration of local emergency no longer exist.
LEGAL REVIEW BY: Megan Garibaldi, City Attorney
APPROVED BY: Robert Nisbet, City Manager
ATTACHMENT:
1. Resolution No 24 -__, “ A Resolution of the City Co uncil of the City of Goleta , California, Terminating the Local Emergency Proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services on February 4, 2024.”
2 ATTACHMENT 1:
Resolution No 24 -__, “ A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Goleta, California, Terminating the Local Emergency Proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services on February 4, 2024.”
3 RESOLUTION NO. 24-__
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, TERMINATING THE LOCAL
EMERGENCY PROCLAIMED BY THE DIRECTOR OF
EMERGENCY SERVICES ON FEBRUARY 4, 2024
WHEREAS, conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons an d property arose within the City of Goleta caused by storms and floods commencing on or about February 4, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the Director of Emergency Services of the City of Goleta proclaimed the existence of a local emergency within the City of Goleta on February 4, 2024. The declaration of local emergency was ratified and extended by resolution of the City Council on February 7, 2024, and further extended on March 19, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) announced federal disaster assistance has been made available to local governments that were affected by the severe winter storms, tornadoes, flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred between January 31, 2024, through February 9, 2024 (DR-4769-CA) in Santa Barbara County; and WHEREAS, the Director of Emergency Services has reported that the conditions of extreme peril necessitating the declaration of local emergency no longer exist and that the declaration of local emergency may be terminated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF GOLETA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Upon the recommendation of the Director of Emergency Services, the Proclamation of the Existence of a Local Emergency described in this Resolution is terminated. Nothing in t his Resolution shall be construed to affect the City’s ability to recover costs or exercise authority under any federal, state, or county emergency or disaster declaration arising from or related to the storms and floods that gave rise to the City’s declaration of local emergency.
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SECTION 2.
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this __ day of _____ 2024. __________________________
PAULA PEROTTE
MAYOR
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________ __________________________
DEBORAH S. LOPEZ MEGAN GARIBALDI
CITY CLERK CITY ATTORNEY
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss.
CITY OF GOLETA )
I, DEBORAH S. LOPEZ, City Clerk of the City of Goleta, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution No. 24-__ was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Goleta a t a regular meeting held on the ___ day of ______, 2024 by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
(SEAL)
_________________________
DEBORAH S. LOPEZ
CITY CLERK
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