CC Resolution No. 02-188RESOLUTION NO. 02-188
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO
APPROVING A POLICY REQUIRING AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
APPROACH TO PEST CONTROL AT ALL CITY-MAINTAINED FACILITIES
WHEREAS, several pesticides have been found in local creeks and in San Francisco Bay
and are understood to be a threat to the environmental health of the Bay Area; and
WHEREAS, governmental agencies are adopting Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
policies to allow them to act as role models for using the less-toxic pest management strategies
that agencies are asking the public to adopt; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cupertino's recently revised National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (stormwater) permit requires that all permittees establish an IPM policy and
develop and implement an IPM plan that requires a reduced-risk approach to all pest control
activities performed at city facilities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Cupertino,
that a City policy regarding Integrated Pest Management shall be implemented as shown in the
attached Exhibit.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cupertino this 21st day of October 2002, by the following vote:
Vote
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Members of the City Council
Lowenthal, Chang, James, Kwok, Sandoval
None
None
None
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
City Clerk
Mayor, City of Cupertino
POLICY TO REQUIRE
AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACH
TO PEST CONTROL AT ALL CITY-MAINTAINED FACILITIES
POLICY STATEMENT
The City of Cupertino will carry out its pest management operations, at city-owned
facilities, and at other facilities where the city is responsible to provide facility and landscape
maintenance, using reduced-risk Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques.
The city, recognizing that some pesticides may be potentially hazardous to human health
and the environment, shall give preference to reasonably available non-pesticide
alternatives, and reduced-risk pesticides, when performing pest control activities.
Departments that apply pesticides will follow an IPM plan whose goal is to ensure the
long-term prevention or suppression of pest problems, while reducing or eliminating the need for
chemical pest controls (to the maximum extent feasible), with minimum negative impact on
human health, non-target organisms, and the environment.
The IPM Plan will include pest-specific and site-specific standard operating procedures
(describing the IPM approach used to control common pest problems) and monthly pesticide use
summaries. The city will prepare a report each year summarizing and evaluating the pest control
activities performed by city staff and contractors.
The IPM Plan will also include an outreach component to residential and commercial
pesticide users, and mechanisms to discourage pesticide use at new development sites.
No products containing Clopyralid, Diazinon, Chlorpyfifos (Dursban), Chloradane, DDT,
Dieldrin or other organophosphates can be used by city staff or a city contractor on city property
or property maintained by the city. Currently, these chemicals are not in use at city-maintained
facilities.
City staff are to report pest control problems to the Public Works Facilities Supervisor or to the
Recreation Supervisor at Blackberry Farm. No unauthorized city staff can purchase pesticides for
use at work.