STAFF REPORT
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Meeting Date:
August 12, 2025
SUBJECT: EMERGENCY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE FISCAL YEAR 2025/26 WORK PLAN
RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council:
1. Approve the Emergency Disaster Preparedness Committee Fiscal Year 2025/26 Work Plan; and
2. Find that the action is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3).
Appropriation: $0 Fund: N/A
Submitted By: . Approved:
Niko King, Fire Chief Dave Kiff, City Manager
SUMMARY OF THE MATTER
This report presents the Emergency Disaster Preparedness Committee’s (EDPC) proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2025/26 Work Plan for City Council review and approval. The EDPC advises the City Council on issues related to disaster preparedness, prevention, and recovery. The proposed work plan, which is based on the FEMA Community Lifeline concept, outlines focus areas for the committee’s subcommittees and is intended to enhance community-wide resilience. There is no fiscal impact associated with this action, and it is not subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
DISCUSSION
The FY 2025-26 EDPC Work Plan has been developed to continue to advise the City Council on strategies for preparedness, resilience, and swift recovery from emergencies to protect critical lifelines and the safety and recovery of residents, visitors, and the whole community. The EDPC Work Plan is based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Community Lifeline concept, which includes eight components:
safety and security; food, hygiene, shelter; health and medical; energy; communications; transportation; hazardous material; and water systems.
FEMA created Community Lifelines to reframe incident information, understand and communicate incident impacts using plain language, and promote unity of effort across the whole community to prioritize efforts to stabilize the lifelines during incident response. While lifelines were developed to support response planning and operations, the concept can be applied across the entire preparedness cycle. Efforts to protect lifelines, prevent and mitigate potential impacts to them, and building stronger and smarter during recovery will drive overall resilience of the community.
EMERGENCY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE FISCAL YEAR 2025/26 WORK PLAN
September 9, 2025
The lifelines have been broken down into EDPC subcommittees and are assigned to EDPC members as follows:
1. Safety and Security: Law Enforcement/Security, Fire Service, Search and Rescue, Government Service, Community Safety (Bennecke)
2. Food, Hydration, Shelter: Food, Hydration, Shelter, Agriculture (Myers)
3. Health and Medical: Medical Care, Public Health, Patient Movement, Medical Supply Chain, Fatality Management (Dodge)
4. Water Systems: Potable Water Infrastructure, Wastewater Management (Horne)
5. Energy: Power Grid, Fuel (Horne)
6. Communications: Infrastructure, Responder Communications, Alerts Warnings and Messages, Finance, 911 and Dispatch (Sarnsen)
7. Transportation: Highway/Roadway/Motor Vehicle, Mass Transit, Railway, Aviation, Maritime (Mousally)
8. Hazardous Material: Facilities, HAZMAT, Pollutants, Contaminants (Sarnsen)
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
There is no fiscal impact associated with the approval of the EPDC’s FY 2025/26 Work Plan. The plan outlines advisory and planning activities by committee members and does not involve funding commitments or expenditures at this time. Any future initiatives or recommendations requiring financial resources will be brought back to the City Council for separate consideration and approval.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
The proposed action is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3), because it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment and does not constitute a “project” as defined in Section 15378. The EDPC Work Plan outlines advisory and planning activities and does not commit the City to any physical improvements or development.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Emergency Disaster Preparedness Committee Fiscal Year 2025/26 Work Plan (Pgs. 3-24) Report Prepared By: Coordinated With:
EMERGENCY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE FISCAL YEAR 2025/26 WORK PLAN
September 9, 2025
Sarah Limones, Emergency Operations
Coordinator
Shelly Bennecke, EDPC Chait