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Home My WebLink About9/18/2013 - STAFF REPORTS 40�QALM SA iy O v a 4 ureo c�41FOBN% City Council Staff Report DATE: September 18, 2013 CONSENT SUBJECT: APPROVE THE 2012 CITY OF PALM SPRINGS LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN (LHMP) ANNEX TO THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY OPERATIONAL AREA MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN FROM: David H. Ready, Esq., Ph.D. City Manager BY: Fire Department SUMMARY The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2000) (Public Law 106-390), requires that every local, county and state government: 1) Conduct an assessment of the natural hazards that pose a threat to the jurisdiction; 2) Determine the potential financial impact of these hazards; 3) Create a plan to mitigate these hazards; and 4) Implement the plan to reduce the impacts of natural disasters. The County planning process evaluated the potential impact of each identified hazard within the county, cities, special districts, and tribes. All participating jurisdictions helped establish a list of potential mitigation efforts and prioritized those efforts based on the needs of their jurisdiction. In addition, each participating jurisdiction developed a specific hazard mitigation strategy. The City Council of Palm Springs needs to adopt this Hazard Mitigation Plan so that the City of Palm Springs will be eligible for hazard mitigation grants after federally declared disasters. RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Resolution No. , "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE 2012 RIVERSIDE COUNTY OPERATIONAL AREA MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN." ITEM NO._�k_ City Council Staff Report September 18, 2013 — Page 2 Palm Springs LHMP Annex 2012 STAFF ANALYSIS: Changes to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act have placed a new emphasis on hazard mitigation planning, primarily moving from post- disaster mitigation to pre-disaster planning, mitigation, and projects. As part of the DMA 2000, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for coordinating the implementation of the Act requiring local government, state, and special jurisdictions to develop hazard mitigation plans. In order to qualify for any future hazard mitigation grant awards, each jurisdiction must prepare, and have approved by the Federal Government a local hazard mitigation plan (LHMP). A LHMP must be approved every five years per DMA 2000. Under the terms of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, which seeks to reduce federal expenditures for catastrophic events, a county, city, tribe, or special district affected by a declared disaster (i.e. earthquake, flood or wildfire) will still be able to receive emergency aid without having an approved plan in place. However, it would be ineligible for FEMA funds to support hazard-mitigation projects, such as elevating flood-prone homes or seismic retrofitting vulnerable structures. The Hazard Mitigation Plan must include a discussion of the planning process, a risk assessment, a description of mitigation measures, a plan-review process outline and documentation that the plan has been adopted formally by the county, city, or special district. The State of California has required all counties, cities, special districts, and participating tribes to prepare mitigation strategies. These strategies were developed as a group by the participating agencies, which subsequently established an individual prioritization for each strategy. Riverside County's efforts to develop a disaster-mitigation strategy started about two years ago. The goal was to bring all the members of the Riverside County Operational Area (county, cities, special district, and tribes), along with local businesses and interested members of the public together to create a multi-jurisdictional plan that identified and assessed the various hazards in the entire County of Riverside. The desire was to have the County, along with the cities, special districts, and tribes develop an all inclusive plan, rather than have each city, special district, and tribe write their own plan. The planning process evaluated the potential impact of each identified hazard on the county, cities, special districts, and tribes. All participating jurisdictions helped establish a list of potential mitigation efforts and prioritized those efforts based on the needs of their jurisdiction. In addition, each participating jurisdiction developed a specific hazard mitigation strategy based on information from 2005 through 2010. Participants in the development of the Riverside County Operational Area Multi- jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan included approximately 53 participants. 02 City Council Staff Report September 18, 2013 -- Page 3 Palm Springs LHMP Annex 2012 The Riverside County Operational Area Multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan has been reviewed by the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Any requested additional information has been added to the plan, based on the State and Federal review. Final approval from FEMA requires a formal resolution from the City adopting the Plan as a part of the City's hazard planning process. For this reason, it is being recommended that the Plan be approved for final adoption by the Palm Springs City Council. The adoption of the plan meets the intent of the law by having an adopted plan. FISCAL IMPACT: There is currently no financial impact to the City at this time, but will impact our future eligibility to apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mitigation grant assistance if not approved and implemented. John Allen Anjila Lebsock, CEM Fire Chief Emergency Services Coordinator David H. Ready, Esq., City Manager Attachments: 1. Proposed Resolution 2. Memorandum dated August 29, 2013 3. Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) August 2012 on file at the City Clerk's Office. 03 RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE 2012 RIVERSIDE COUNTY OPERATIONAL AREA MULTI- JURISDICTIONAL LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN. WHEREAS, President William J. Clinton signed H.R. 707, the Disaster Mitigation and Cost Reduction Act of 2000, into law on October 30, 2000. WHEREAS, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all jurisdictions to be covered by a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) to be eligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) post-disaster funds; and WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs has committed to participate in the development of the Riverside County Operational Area Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan; and WHEREAS, this Riverside County Operational Area Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan meets the goal of mitigating natural disasters in the Riverside County Operational Area; and WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs coordinated the development of the City of Palm Springs Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Annex; and WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs is concerned about mitigating potential losses from natural disasters before they occur, and WHEREAS, the plan identifies potential hazards, potential loses and potential mitigation measures to limit loses, and WHEREAS, the California State Office of Emergency Services has reviewed the plan on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and WHEREAS, formal adoption of the plan by the City Council of Palm Springs is required before final approval of the plan can be obtained from the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and WHEREAS, The City of Palm Springs has determined that it would be in the best interest of the City of Palm Springs to adopt the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Annex. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, does resolve as follows: 04 SECTION 1. Accepts the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Annex of the Riverside County Operational Area Multi-Jurisdiction Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to meet the requirements of the Disaster Mitigation and Cost Reduction Act of 2000 and as it related to lessening the impact of future disasters. SECTION 2. Authorize the City Manager or his designee to serve as the Director of Emergency Services. SECTION 3. Authorize the City Manager or his designee to make minor non- substance modifications to the Plan. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED BY THE PALM SPRINGS CITY COUNCIL THIS 18th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2013. DAVID H. READY, CITY MANAGER ATTEST: JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK CERTIFICATION STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss. CITY OF PALM SPRINGS ) I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that Resolution No. is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on September 18, 2012, by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK City of Palm Springs, California 05 MEMORANDUM DATE: August 29, 2013 TO: City Council Members VIA: David H. Ready, Esq.,Ph.D., City Manager VIA: John Allen, Fire Chief FROM: Anjila Lebsock, Emergency Services Coordinator SUBJECT: Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) August 2012 that will be on the September 18,2013 City Council Agenda Data contained in the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) dated August 2012 was based on data from 2005 to 2010. The plan was submitted through the incorporation and approval process beginning in October of 2011. The City's LHMP is an Annex to the Countywide Plan. The Countywide Plan was written and submitted to California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA), which has now changed to California Office of Emergency Services (CaIOES), for approval. Once signed off by CalEMA the document was then transmitted to the Federal Emergency Management(FEMA) agency for approval. Once the Countywide plan was approved each individual Annex had to be reviewed and approved by CalEMA/CalOES and FEMA. Page Update or Explanation Number 16 The people listed here participated in the planning and writing of the LHMP when the document was written in 2011. These positions will be involved in the next plan and will be updated with the most current people in those positions at that time. 18 See section 2.4 on why the plan is coming before City Council. 19 Section 3.1 lists the significant incidents that occurred between 2005 through 2010. 28 and 29 This information is based on the 2009 appraisal of City Facilities. An updated appraisal is scheduled for later this year. This data will be updated in the next plan. One example of a change from 2009 information and present information is the Animal Shelter which has increased in value from $0.5 million to $6.5 million. 30 Information on page 30 is tied to the chart(Jurisdictional Vulnerability) on page 37. The Jurisdictional Vulnerability chart had an additional category added during this planning that was not part of the previous planning cycle. The new category is Pandemic. With the addition of a new category and the closing of the City Jail aligned with major incidents that occurred during the five year data range(2005- 2010) the severity, probability, and ranking of hazards have changed. 38-51 and Information came from the City's General Plan Section 6: Safety Element 57-70 53-55 Information came from the National Flood Insurance Program(NFIP) and Community Rating System(CRS) that the City participates and can help reduce the costs that citizens pay for flood insurance. 06 74-77 Potential mitigation methods to address the primary high ranked hazards in the City. This list serves the following purposes: • To provide a list of projects the City would like to pursue to mitigate the highest hazards when funding becomes available through mitigation grants • Efforts the City is currently pursuing • Efforts the City will take after a disaster to mitigate hazards that are identified because of the disaster Some items may no longer be germane due to City projects implemented after the document was written, one example is item 3.2:Co-Generation Plant. 80 Fire De artment-LHMP Link City of Palm Springs Fire Department 07