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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. RESOLUTION ADOPTING A LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as ground shaking, liquefaction, land sliding, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including wildfires, floods, and landslides; and WHEREAS, the City of Pleasant on recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county, or special district boundaries; and WHEREAS, the City of Pleasanton seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster-resistant City and region by reducing the potential loss of life, property damage, and environmental degradation from natural disasters, while accelerating economic recovery from those disasters; and WHEREAS, the City of Pleasant on is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land use systems in the City, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole; and WHEREAS, the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties, and special districts to have adopted a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster mitigation funding from FEMA; and WHEREAS, ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report Taming Natural Disasters as the multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: Section I: The City of Pleasant on hereby adopts, and adapts with its local annex, this multi- jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. Section 2: The City of Pleasant on commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified in the City of Pleasant on Annex of that multi- jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan by adopting this list of mitigation strategies as an annex to the City's Emergency Management Plan.