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BACKGROUND The City of Pleasanton is dedicated to providing efficient and coordinated response to any emergency or disaster and/or unusual occurrences that could threaten the well- being and health of residents and visitors to the Pleasanton community. Disaster coordination and management involves all affected City departments and any other related city, county, state, federal, private sector or non-profit agencies that can assist in providing resources and recovery related to disaster preparedness. These occurrences include, but are not limited to earthquakes, landslides, fires, floods, terrorism, nuclear incidents, hazardous material incidents, disease outbreak, civil disturbance, criminal mass-casualty incidents, or any other emergency requiring a coordinated, multi-agency response. DISCUSSION California Education Code §32282 Interagency School Safety Demonstration Act of 1985 encourages school districts to "[e]stablish a procedure to allow a public agency, including the American Red Cross, to use school buildings, grounds, and equipment for mass care and welfare shelters during disasters or other emergencies affecting the public health and welfare. The school district or county office of education shall cooperate with the public agency in furnishing and maintaining the services as the school district or county office of education may deem necessary to meet the needs of the community." This MOU and Agreement identify Amador Valley Community Park, the Pleasanton Senior Center, and the Veterans Memorial building from the City as well as the three high schools and three middle schools within the Pleasanton Unified School District for potential mass care and welfare shelters in the event of a disaster or emergency. To utilize the facilities of the Pleasanton Unified School District for emergency and disaster related activities, a memorandum of understanding is required (Attachment 1); and a contractual relationship is required to utilize the resources of the American Red Cross during a local or regional disaster (Attachment 2). Given recent history with fires, public safety power shut offs, extremely high temperatures, wind events, hazardous air quality and restrictions related to a pandemic, it has become apparent that formalized agreements for disaster preparedness are important for the safety of our community. Submitted by: Fis I eview: Approve by: Heidi Mu y Tina Olson Nelson Fialho Director of Library and Recreation Director of Finance City Manager Attachments: 1. Memorandum of Understanding 2. American Red Cross Facility Use Agreement Page 2 of 2