HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 2019-168 N.C.S. 10/14/2019Resolution No. 2019-168 N.C.S.
of the City of Petaluma, California
RATIFYING THE EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
EMERGENCY SERVICES DATED EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 8, 2019 PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2.32.060(A) OF THE PETALUMA MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, Section 2.32.060 of the Petaluma Municipal Code and California
Government Code Section 8630, subdivisions (a) and (b), empower the Director of Emergency
Services or a designated Acting Director of Emergency Services to proclaim the existence or
threatened existence of a local emergency when the City is affected or likely to be affected by a
public calamity and the City Council is not is session, subject to ratification by the City Council
within seven (7) days; and
WHEREAS, Section 8630, subdivision (c), of the California Government Code requires
governing bodies that have declared a local emergency to review the need for continuing the
local emergency at least once every 60 days until the governing body terminates the local
emergency; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager, in her capacity as the City's Director of Emergency
Services, signed a declaration of local emergency within the City effective as of 8:00 a.m. on
October 8, 2019; and
WHEREAS, the emergency proclamation of October 8, 2019 resulted from the planned
Pacific Gas and Electric Public Safety Power Shut off affecting Eastern and Northern sections of
Petaluma in response to the low moisture/high wind conditions forecast for Sonoma County
beginning after sundown on Wednesday, October 9 and continuing through Thursday morning,
October 10; and
WHEREAS, the City Council does hereby find that the aforesaid conditions of extreme
peril did and do warrant and necessitate the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, PROCLAIMED AND
ORDERED by the City Council of the City of Petaluma, as follows:
1. The Proclamation of Existence of a Local Emergency, as issued by the Director of
Emergency Services and attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit A, is hereby
ratified and confirmed by the City Council of the City of Petaluma, in accordance with
Section 2.32.060 of the Petaluma Municipal Code and other applicable laws.
2. Such proclaimed local emergency shall be deemed to continue to exist until its
termination is proclaimed by the City Council of the City of Petaluma.
3. In accordance with California Government Code section 8630, subdivision (c), the City
Council will review the need for continuing the local emergency ratified pursuant to this
resolution at least once every 60 days until the City Council terminates the local
emergency.
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4. In accordance with Section 2.32.060, paragraph (17)(3) of the Petaluma Municipal Code,
the City Manager, as the City's Emergency Services Director, is empowered to require
emergency service of any City officer or employee.
5. In accordance with Section 2.32.090 of the Petaluma Municipal Code, all officers and
employees of the City, along with volunteer forces and groups aiding during an
emergency, may be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in
the City during this proclaimed emergency.
6. In accordance with Government Code Section 3100, all public employees are declared to
be disaster service works subject to such disaster service activities in response to this
proclaimed emergency as by be assigned to them by their superiors or by law.
Under the power and authority conferred upon this Council by the Charter of said City.
REFERENCE: I hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted by the Approved as to
Council of the City of Petaluma at a Special meeting on the 141h day of October f
2019, by the following vote:
Assistant City Att rney
AYES: Fischer; Healy; King; Vice Mayor McDonnell; Miller
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Barrett; Kearney
ABSTAIN: None 7
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City Clerk Vi Mayor
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