CC Resolution No. 12-051 Cupertino Annex to the Santa Clara County Annex to the 2010 ABAG Report "Taming Natural Disasters" as the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan RESOLUTION NO. 12-051
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO
APPROVING THE CITY OF CUPERTINO ANNEX TO THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY
ANNEX TO THE 2010 ASSOCIATION OF BAY AREA GOVERNMENTS REPORT
"TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE CITY OF CUPERTINO'S LOCAL HAZARD
MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as
ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including
wildfires, floods and landslides; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cupertino recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county,
or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster-resistant City and
region by reducing the potential loss of life, property damage, and environmental degradation
from natural disasters, while accelerating economic recovery from those disasters; and
WHEREAS, the City is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the
infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land
use systems in the City, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties and
special districts to have adopted a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster mitigation
funding from FEMA; and
WHEREAS, ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report "Taming Natural
Disasters" as the multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay
Area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council adopts with its local
annex, this multi jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City commits to continuing to
take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the City of
Cupertino Annex to the County of Santa Clara Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan and will consider including the mitigation strategies as the Implementation
Appendix of the Safety Element of its General Plan during the Safety Element update process
now underway and expected to be completed by December 2014.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cupertino this
15th day of May, 2012 by the following vote:
Vote Members of the City Council
AYES: Santoro, Mahoney, Chang, Sinks, Wong
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: APPROVED:
Grace Schmidt, Acting City Clerk Mark Santoro, Mayor, City of Cupertino