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JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Leslie Locke, Executive Assistant
DATE: November 7, 2016
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION re: Adoption of the Jefferson County — City of Port Townsend
All Hazards Mitigation Plan (2016 Revision) Repeals and Replaces Plan Adopted by
Resolution No. 21-10
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Adoption of the Jefferson County — City of Port Townsend All Hazards Mitigation Plan (2016
Revision) Repeals and Replaces Plan Adopted by Resolution No. 21-10
ANALYSIS:
The Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan is a collaborative process between the City of Port Townsend and
Jefferson County. It contains an analysis of hazards, assessments or risks and vulnerabilities, and
description of the manner in which mitigation is planned and carried out.
It identifies goals, objectives and recommended actions to reduce of prevent injury and damaged
caused by natural hazard events. The plan assembles a number of existing hazard reduction
methodologies into a single overall strategy as a requirement of the Hazard Mitigation Act of 2000.
FEMA requires each jurisdiction wishing to participate in the upgrade of an approved plan to submit a
resolution of intent and to identify the responsibility for coordination of the planning process.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Without this plan the participating local entities would not be eligible for a variety of disaster recovery
programs and grants. Most strategies identified in the existing plan are already in effect.
Recommendations made in the plan are contingent upon the availability of resources to carry them out.
The plan must be reviewed annually, and updated every five years.
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve RESOLUTION re: Adoption of the Jefferson County — City of Port Townsend All Hazards
Mitigation Plan (2016 Revision)
RENIEWED BY:
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JEFFERSON COUNTY
STATE OF WASHINGTON
In The Matter of the Adoption of }
the Jefferson County — City of Port Townsend } RESOLUTION NO.
All Hazards Mitigation Plan (2016 Revision) }
WHEREAS, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (44CFR 201.6) (the Act) require the
development of a Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan as a prerequisite for pre -disaster and post -disaster
Hazard Mitigation Grants, including Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning Grants; and
WHEREAS, in 2010 the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management, on behalf
of Jefferson County, the City of Port Townsend and eighteen other Special Purpose Districts
coordinated development of a multi -district Hazard Mitigation Plan (Plan) and submitted the adopted
Plan to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for approval per the Act; and
WHEREAS, FEMA determined that the submitted 2010 Hazard Mitigation Plan met or
exceeded the criterion of the Act; and
WHEREAS, the Act requires review and revision of the Plan every five (5) years; and,
WHEREAS, FEMA has determined that the Jefferson County — City of Port Townsend All
Hazards Mitigation Plan (Rev. 2016) meets or exceeds the criterion of the Act; and,
WHEREAS, it is concluded that the adoption of the Plan is necessary and in the public
interest.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Jefferson County — City of Port
Townsend All Hazards Mitigation Plan (Revised 2016) is hereby adopted as the official hazards
mitigation plan for Jefferson County and repeals and replaces the plan adopted by Resolution 21-10
adopted June 28, 2010.
APPROVED this 7`" day of November, 2016.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
SEAL:
Kathleen Kler, Chair
Phil Johnson, Member
ATTEST:
David Sullivan, Member
Carolyn Avery
Deputy Clerk of the Board