Resolution 2025-043 Page 1
RESOLUTION 2025-043
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN PABLO ADOPTING THE CITY OF SAN PABLO ANNEX OF THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY 2024 LOCAL
HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN UPDATE
WHEREAS, the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties, and special districts to adopt a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster mitigation funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA);
WHERES, responding to federal mandates in the Disa ster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106 -390), a partnership was formed among Contra Costa cities and special districts to pool resources and to create a uniform hazard mitigation strategy that can be consistently applied to a defined planning area and used to ensure eligibility for specified grant funding success;
WHEREAS, in December 2023, City of San Pablo staff joined with the coalition of Contra Costa County cities and special districts to embark on a planning process to prepare for and lessen the impacts of specified natural hazards by updating the 2018 Contra Costa County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (“LHMP” or “Plan”);
WHEREAS, the result of the organizational effort will be a FEMA and California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) approved multi -jurisdictional, multi -hazard mitigation plan;
WHEREAS, the hazard identification and profiling in the hazard mitigation plan addresses the following hazards of concern within the planning area: climate change, dam failure, drought, earthquake, flood, landslide, severe weather, tsunami and wildfire;
WHEREAS, the LHMP presents the accumulated information in a unified framework to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated plan covering the entire Contra Costa County planning area;
WHEREAS, the LHMP is considered a living document such that, as awareness of additional hazards develops and new strategies and projects are conceived to offset or prevent losses due to natural disasters, the LHMP will be evaluated and revised o n a continual 5-year time frame;
WHEREAS, the City of San Pablo Annex of the 2024 Contra Costa County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan identifies mitigation goals and actions to reduce or eliminate long - term risk to people and property in the City of San Pablo from the impacts of future hazards and disasters;
WHEREAS, once the hazard mitigation plan is adopted by all of the jurisdictional partners and approved by FEMA, the partnership will collectively and individually become eligible to apply for hazard mitigation project funding from both the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program (PDM) and the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP); Resolution 2025-043 Page 2
WHEREAS, adoption of the City of San Pablo Annex of the 2024 Contra Costa County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan by the City of San Pablo City Council demonstrates the City’s commitment to the hazard mitigation goals and actions outlined in the Annex; and
WHEREAS, adoption of the City of San Pablo Annex of the 2024 Contra Costa County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan will facilitate the City integrating the Annex into the Safety Element of the General Plan, which will make the City eligible for greater State assistance with cost-sharing for certain eligible expenses in the event of a disaster.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of San Pablo hereby adopts the City of San Pablo Annex of the Contra Costa County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, which is attached and incorporated as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the foregoing recitations are true and correct and are included herein by reference as findings.
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ADOPTED this 7th day of April, 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Ponce, Pineda, Xavier, Cruz
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Pabon-Alvarado
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ATTEST: APPROVED:
/s/ Dorothy Gantt__________________ /s/ Arturo Cruz___________ Dorothy Gantt, City Clerk Arturo Cruz, Mayor