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' RESOLUTION NO. 6~-B6 WHEREAS, the purpose for the existence of government at all levels is to protect the health, safety and welfare of all the citizens of this nation, and; WHEREAS, the purpose of elected officials at all levels of government is to represent the interests of and provide leadership for its' citizens, and; WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has proposed a nuclear disaster plan that would provide 600 bomb shelters for local elected officials at a cost of $1.5 billion, and; WHEREAS, this same FEMA plan provides no program for protecting the lives of citizens of this nation and, in fact, intends that citizens rely on "Self Help" in the case of nuclear disaster, and; WHEREAS, this FEMA plan is contrary to the concept of government responsibility for the public health, safety and welfare, and; WHEREAS, the JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS does not understand the logic of protecting only government officials against nuclear disaster while leaving our citizens to their own designs, because political leadership would not likely be a high priority among the survivors of a nuclear disaster, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS hereby goes on record as opposing the FEMA "bomb shelters for elected officials" plan, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we propose an alternative plan that would concentrate on the safety of the general public as the highest priority by seriously working toward nuclear disarmament and actively pursuing effective methods of protecting the public against nuclear disaster. f1r-t¡¡ JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ~~1~ ohn, , L""",',',. ,Pit~,' Chairman /.,' ~f.Á ~ /......¿,.(L/ ..& B.G. Brown, Member ~~-?f~~~ r; rry .' enn~son, Member VGL 12 " ;1,"."" rt;~J~ , r r ~ ¡ \,.A 2748 f··--- .\- i "', ì . ¡j ¡: ¡u¡ .......-""~ June 10, 1986 Dear Commissioner: Commissioners Mary O. Boyle Virgil E. Brown Timothy F. Hagan As I am sure you are well aware, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced a tentative program to build 3,400 bunkers so that we politicians will be able to survive a nuclear attack. You may think,. as I do, that the proposal is Orwellian. No one in ~is 0:: her right mind would s~~~~l<:._~9,tl,~~c~,t8."Jl¡.Q}!l...q~~...Ib!.~-ls.!Pd of l.nsanl.ty. Please ]Ol.n with me in ,g¡>.posing J.þi~",2J.an. I ask that you urge your Congressional Representatives and Senators to reject the program; I also ask that you pass a resolution in opposition to FEMA's proposal. I would appreciate it if you would send me a copy of your board's resolution. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, 1::..::rf'V T ~ Timothy F. ~gan l) County Commissioner TFH/bh ~. J 216/443-7178 , . '. , ..'-' '. .---- ...0..... -' '.~ '-. ::".:... ~t ~ ~', -~. .-... -- ;. \..... ..~' '.' ...\........;'~.. FEM~~trikes again ;' JJ £/~ '0£ Remember FEMA, thfFedera E rgency wants to penalize state and local communities that . '" Management Agency'? That'. the bureaucracy refuse to participate with its nuçlear-respOIJse plan that brought headshakes a few years ago when it by withholding federal funds for other more surviv, , proposed a massive evacuation of cities in the able emerge¡¡cies. such as hurricanes and earth- 'event of nuclear attack. In-the event of an attack, quakes. according to the $4 billion plan, people could hop in PerhapsFEMA's latest proposal simply reflects their cars and take a peaceful respite in the COUD- a changing of the guard_ The director who proposed try. When the laughter stopped and the criticism the evacuation plan, Louis O. Giuffridda, was started, agency officials retreated- replaced last year. The new director, Julius Becton Now, FEMA is back with another bold but Jr., may have felt the need to place his stamp on equally hilarious plan, It vvants to s~nd$1.5 billion the agency, The tragedy is that FEMA's new plan is to provide shelters for ~~"ãÍlã 1ôCãl omcials in based on the same premise as its old one-that a the ey-éiíCof a n\J~I_earwar. The thèory is that the nuclear war could be winnable and surviv'lble. Nei, s1ì"eTrer'š"wóÍ1ld enable local governments to man- ther seems possible, age things and restore order to whatever society is Cu a Countv Commissioner Timothy F. left As for everybody else, the FEMA plan merely lagan Ot ers a reasona e alternatiVe: e policy encourages us to rely on "self help." FEMA isn't õüght to be that the elected representatives in a saying what kind of "self help," but will provide a democracy-from the president on down-be made few million low-cost radiation detectors and to stand outside and watch the radiation fall all instructional materials to families, schools and around them." , churches. Terrific. Such a policy surely would save some money, and All of this may sound a little funny, but it who knows? It might cause elected officials to becomes a littlo- scary when the realization sel~ reconsider positions that move us closer towapJ in that pe6ple who run FEMA are serious, FEMA nuclear war rather than away from it. ' __........ ......................."'......... ................... 11'..' f fJ) þ//,'!/fþ There IS no defense for bomb According to the May 10 article i "U,S, seeks to shelter politiCians," I President Heagans admInlstratlOn's revised clvli ~efense plan IS to bUild \ shelter plan --, L r I' . .~ \ ~ t f \, ) ii 1 ~-~ i Ii rl Ii iii I : f ',~...' ~ ' , .:~~~~~:~~:~;;,K;J¡·~f~~,·,~~ . -, "r , -, -," ".:..,;..~;., P(Q)Ríì1tn(CnSllTIl5 §llil@tll1ntàl §W1ffIeTî! ibl1l mnm1ke wa~ ITjIagælIffi ßaY5\ By KAREN HENDERSON P D /~~~ t: against the agency's proposal. \ STAFF WRITER 'No elected 0 {icial will ".No electro official will support a , Cuyahoga County Commissioner support Q policy that pohcy that says we, Will sUrvive and : Timothy F. Hagan said yesteråay that il' the rest of you will die:' he said. I politicians and Federal Emergency says we WI survwe. r "The pubJic ought to ask who Management Agency officials should and the rest of you will appointed these people to come up be the first to die in a nuclear attack die,... We should be w}th thiskind.of idea - with this kind _ .Ot the first saved. . . r1 \ 01 ¡¡¡samty. '" e should b£ risking aU lagan blasted a "se!f,help" plan Tlskm", all we can (or . we can ior pZ3ce. not preparing for ~roposed by the agency that would peace, not preparmg L.death." build 3,400 bomb shelters for public for death. I He will ask the commissioners to officials while orctinary citizens would "reject this out of hand even at the have to fend for themselves. Hagan expense of th~ir refusing to help with -'owed to contact commissioners hurricanes and earthouakes. Thev can across the country to seek support to save lives:' he said. keep their money:' lÍe said. "I'm not fight the plan. Hagan said government intelligence going to buy in with their insanity." "1t's folly to protect the very offi, showro Cleveland targeted fer at least Hagan said if sUr\;vors were to be , ClalS w~? brought the ~~voc on the one and possibly three 20,megaton picked. they should be picked by lot, .";...;,.,:,.,:....~,;'..':61" people, Hagan said. The pohcy bombs in the event of a war. "If one tery and politicians should be , "'....,,,. .. ought to be that the electro represen, 20-megaton bomb were dropped on excluded from participating. tatives in a democracy - from the Cleveland, everyone within 20 miles Hagan said the bunkers would not president on down - be made to stand would be dead:' he said. He estimatro protect people anyway. "Even those in outside and watch the radiation fall 1.5 million people would die in an the bunkers would come out to a land all around them. attack. filled with poison and without food or 'You can use that kind of justifica, [Hagan scoffed at plans to save land water." he said. "Don't people know tion (saving the officials) if you are a ownership and other records in the there is no alternative than not to member of the Polithuro of the Com' 'bunkers. "It is ridiculous to think that have a nuclear war? We ought to risk munist Partv:' he said. "but that kind you would be abie to get up and go out as much for peace as we do for war. of thinking has no place in a democ, and find your mailbox the next day." "We have to transcend the differ, racy." Hagan said he would begin sending ences among the peoples of the world The agency's $1.5 billion plan would 3,000 letters to county commissioners in order to save life on the planet as include construction of 600 bomb shel, tomorrow asking them to speak we know it." ters for local officials between 1D88 .~ and 1992. The number would even- tually be increasro to 3,400. The shelters would enable local governments to manage the "trans- attack period" and restore "post, attack government and society," according to a document obtained by the Washington Post. They would pro- tect land records so war survivors could retain and demonstrate owner- ",,";~""."" ,;.' ,,'.....,. .' ~~~.Of property. not destroyed in the I, ,,:"", ;t.', ,,', ""','" The plan cal1s for citizens to assume greater responsibility for their own survival. Funds for other emergencIes such as hurricanes and earthquakes would be withheld from states and local governments that refused to partlcipate in the plan. \:\' "We've learned now from Cherno- byl that you cannot hide from that kind of olsaster," he said, Hagan noted I that the relaUvely ~mall amount of I r¡¡diat.on from the recent SOVIet nuclear plant ålsaster had caused I proolelns for people in nel~hbonng countries such as I'oland and SWl'åen. 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