CC RESOLUTION 4381RESOLUTION NO. 4381
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A JOINT LEAGUE /CSAC POLICY
STATEMENT TO DECREASE IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
RESULTING FROM WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE FIRES
The City Council resolves as follows:
Section 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. The City of El Segundo recognizes that the wildland fire problem is
an issue of statewide importance and significance; and
B. Extreme fire events such as the October /November 2003 Southern
California fires will happen again unless improvements in fuel
management, land use policies and fire safe building standards are
put into place to protect lives, structures, infrastructure, watershed,
community parklands, and other vital community assets; and
C. The Executive Boards of the League of California Cities, herein
referred to as the "League" and the California State Association of
Counties, herein referred to as "CSAC', have unanimously adopted
the attached Policy Statement that declares a "call to action" to
create stronger defensive strategy for dealing with wildland fire
threat; and
D. The defensible strategy involves a collaborative analysis of the land
use, building standards and fuels management concerns
associated with living in and near the wildland; and
E. The League and CSAC will identify a core team of leaders who will
join with political leaders fro the State to lead a task force made up
of community planners, environmental agencies, housing and
economic development specialists, fire service representatives, law
enforcement, business, and the insurance industry to implement
the defensive strategy identified in the Policy Statement.
Section 2: Therefore, the City on this 1st day of June 2004, supports the Policy
Statement signed by the Presidents and Executive Directors of the League and
CSAC, and encourages that the League and CSAC move collaboratively and
aggressively to seek implementation of the defensive strategy identified in the
Policy Statement.
Section 3: The City Clerk will certify to the passage and adoption of this
Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of the City;
and shall make a record of proceedings of the City Council in the minutes of the
meeting at which same is passed and adopted.
Section 5:
Mark
This Resolution
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immediately upon adoption.
FORM:
Karl H. Berg4f, A$sistant City Attorney
STATE OFCALIFORNIA )
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. 4381 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 1 st day
of June 2004, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following roll call
vote:
AYES:
McDowell, Gaines, Boulgarides, Busch, Jacobson
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
NOT PARTICIPATING:
None
ATTEST:
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Cindy M rtesen, City Clerk
l OF AIGUE
°CITIES
League of California Cities California State Association of Counties
1400 K Street, 4" Floor 1100 K Street, Suite 101
Sacramento, CA 95814 Sacramento, CA 95814
Wildland Urban Interface Fires
A Collaborative Plan to Decrease Impacts on
Public Health and Safety
(Adopted February 2004)
The League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties recognize the need
for multi jurisdictional and multi- agency coordination, collaboration and communication to
standardize and improve pre -fire mitigations, prevention and response to any fire hazard in the forest,
rangeland, watershed, wildland urban interface /intermix and open space in the State of California.
The League and CSAC will aggressively work with all levels of government by: a) acting as a
clearinghouse for local government regarding their experiences in dealing with conflicting
government regulations that have made wildland mitigation efforts difficult or impossible, and to
forward said information to our State legislature so they may begin to understand the problem; b)
consider legislation that will expedite the adoption of state -wide wildland urban interface construction
development standards; and c) co- sponsor public forums to discuss the adoption of future legislation,
such as Oregon's Forestland -Urban Interface Fire Protection Act. The ultimate goal will be a
systemic solution to California wildland fires and to ensure that the devastation created by past fires
will remain a part of California's history, rather than its future.
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Ron Loveridge, Mayor, Riverside
President, League of California Cities
Chris McKenzie, Executive Director
League of California Cities
Paul Stein, Supervisor, Calaveras County
President, California State Association of
Counties
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Steven C. Szalay, Executive Director
California State Association of Counties