RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERCULES
PROCLAIMING EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, Section 3-1.06 of the Hercules Municipal Code empowers the City Manager of the City of Hercules, acting in his capacity as Director of Emergency Services, to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency when the City is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity and the City Council is not in session; and WHEREAS, on January 10, 2023, the City Manager, as Director of Emergency Services of the City of Hercules, issued a Declaration Proclaiming the Existence of a Local Emergency upon finding that conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property have arisen within the City of Hercules due to extreme weather events causing the potential for severe flooding, landslide, and damage to critical infrastructure; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 8630 of the California Government Code, whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by an official designated by ordinance, the local emergency shall not remain in effect for a period in excess of seven days unless it has been ratified by the governing body; and WHEREAS, the governing body shall review the need for continuing the local emergency at least once every 60 days until the governing body terminates the local emergency, termination to occur at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Hercules that:
The Proclamation of Local Emergency made on January 10, 2023 by the Director of Emergency Services is hereby confirmed and a Local Emergency now exists throughout the City of Hercules, California; During the existence of this Local Emergency, the powers, functions and duties of the Director of Emergency Services, the Disaster Council and the emergency organization of the City of Hercules shall be those prescribed by state law, by existing ordinances and resolutions of the City of Hercules, as well as this Resolution and any subsequent emergency orders of the Council; For storm related expenditures, the normal City of Hercules goods and service procurement requests and purchase practices and ordinances are stayed during this period of emergency; The content of this Resolution shall be given public notice as is reasonable and feasible under these circumstances; This Local Emergency shall continue until it is terminated by proclamation of the Council; The need for continuing this Local Emergency shall be periodically reviewed by Council consistent with the requirements of Section 8630 of the Government Code.
The foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the City Council of the City of Hercules held on the 17th day of January 2023, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
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Alex Walker-Griffin, Mayor
ATTEST:
Eibleis Melendez
Acting City Clerk