REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on a Resolution Adopting all of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, Volume 1, and the Volume 2 City of Santa Clara Annex
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
The Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Management (SCCOEM) was awarded a grant to complete the update of the Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (MJHMP), since the current plan was due to be updated at the end of 2022.
In November 2022, the City of Santa Clara participated in a coalition of Santa Clara County cities and special districts that embarked on a planning process to prepare for and lessen the impacts of specified natural hazards by updating the Santa Clara County Operational Area (OA) Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP). The partnership was formed to pool resources and to create a uniform hazard mitigation strategy that can be consistently applied to the defined planning area and used to ensure eligibility for specified grant funding success.
This effort represents the fourth comprehensive update to the initial hazard mitigation plan, approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in November of 2005. The updated Plan complies with the requirements outlined in FEMA's Local Mitigation Policy Planning Guide (April 2022), the requirements of which apply to all plans seeking agency approval on or after April 19, 2023. The result of the organizational effort will be a FEMA and California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) approved multi-jurisdictional, multi-hazard mitigation plan.
Fourteen (14) jurisdictions and three (3) special districts within the Santa Clara County OA-defined as the unincorporated county, incorporated jurisdictions, and special districts within the geographical boundaries of Santa Clara County-participated in the MJHMP prepared in early 2023 by the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Management with support from the ...
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