CC RESOLUTION 4320RESOLUTION NO. 4320
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ELSEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING THE
STANDARDIZED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(SEMS) EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN (EOP)
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of El Segundo as follows
SECTION 1 The City Council finds as follows
A The City of El Segundo has a substantial risk of natural, technological, and
man -made emergencies
B The El Segundo City Council adopted the Standardized Emergency
Management System (SEMS) in 1997
C As a result of the coordinated terrorist attacks on the nation on September
11, 2001, the City of El Segundo was compelled to reassess its entire
emergency management system, response, and operations policies and
procedures
D The passage of the Homeland Security Act and creation of the Department of
Homeland Security on January 24, 2003 was the most extensive
reorganization of the Federal Government since the 1940s
E On February 7, 2003, the Governor of the State of California created the
California Department of Homeland Security with the Director's of the Office
of Emergency Services and the Office of Criminal Justice and Planning
reporting to the Governor's Office through the Director of the Office of
Homeland Security
F The result of these substantial changes to the infrastructure of the state of
California and FEMA, and many other federal emergency management
systems required the City of El Segundo to replace its existing plan and
incorporate additional elements addressing domestic terrorism and public
health emergencies
G The City of El Segundo emergency organization has tested and exercised
draft elements of the EOP
H The new EOP significantly improves the capability of Emergency Services
Organization to manage and respond to future emergencies
SECTION 2 The City Council does hereby adopt the SEMS Emergency Operations
Plan dated July 3, 2003 as the management system and plan for all multi -
jurisdictional and multi- agency emergency responses for the City of El Segundo
SECTION 3 The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution,
record this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions, and make a
minute of the adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the
minutes of this meeting
SECTION 4 This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and
will remain effective unless repealed or superseded
2003
PASSED AND ADOPTED this stn day of August
Mike Gordon,
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify that the whole
number of members of the City Council of the City is five, that the foregoing Resolution No
h190 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and signed by the
Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the 5th day of August 2003, and the same was so passed
and adopted by the following roll call vote
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, McDowell, Wernick
NOES: None
ABSENT: Gaines
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST:
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Cindy MYrtesen,
City Clerk
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APPROVED
Mark D Hw
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Karl H Bergef
Assistant City Attorney