RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION APPROVING LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as ground shaking, liquefaction, landsliding, 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 County of San Mateo recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county, or special district boundaries; and

WHEREAS, the County of San Mateo seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster-resistant County of San Mateo 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 County of San Mateo is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land use systems in the County of San Mateo, 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 County of San Mateo adopts, and adapts with its local annex, this multi-jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of San Mateo commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the County of San Mateo Annex of that multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.

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