HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 3a. Approval of Emergency Services Director Proclamation No. 1 (2023 Series) - January Storm IncidentCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum
Council Agenda Correspondence
Date: January 9, 2023
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Derek Johnson, City Manager/Emergency Services Director
SUBJECT: Item # 3a- Resolution Confirming the Emergency Services Director’s
Proclamation of Existence of a Local Emergency
Attached is a draft Resolution for City Council consideration and adoption at the January
10, 2023 City Council meeting. Staff will provide a presentation at the meeting.
Attachment A – Draft Resolution of the City Council Confirming a Local Emergency
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RESOLUTION NO. ____
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS
OBISPO, CALIFORNIA CONFIRMING THE EMERGENCY SERVICES
DIRECTOR’S PROCLAMATION OF EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL
EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, California Government Code 8630 and Section 2.24.060 (A) (1) of
the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code empowers the Emergency Services Director/City
Manager to proclaim a local emergency if the City Council is not in session; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code 8630 (b) and Section 2.24.060 (A) (1)
requires that the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven
days thereafter; and
WHEREAS, conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and
property have arisen within the City of San Luis Obispo, as a result of severe weather
conditions, including flooding and high winds, causing damage to public and private
structures and facilities, and related local emergency impacts throughout the City, as
defined by California Government Code 8558 (c) beginning on or about December 27,
2022, and escalating in a manner warranting the proclamation of a local emergency,
commencing on or about 10:38 a.m. on the 9th day of January, 2023, at which time the
City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo was not in session; and
WHEREAS, the City Council does hereby find that the above described
conditions of disaster or extreme peril did warrant and necessitate the proclamation of
the existence of a local emergency City-wide; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager acting as the Emergency Services Director did
properly proclaim the existence of a local emergency within the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of San
Luis Obispo that the proclamation of existence of a local emergency, as issued by the
Emergency Services Director/City Manager on January 9, 2023, is hereby ratified and
confirmed.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the conditions constituting a local emergency
emerged on or about December 27, 2022, and continued and escalated in a manner
warranting a local emergency proclamation, and shall be deemed to continue to exist
until its termination is proclaimed by the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo
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Resolution No. _____ (2023 Series) Page 2
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ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the _____ day of January 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
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Erica A. Stewart, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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J. Christine Dietrick
City Attorney
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of
the City of San Luis Obispo, California, this ______ day of ______________, 2023.
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Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
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