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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
h esolution No. 02-~ 7
PROCLAMATION CONFIRMING EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, Section $-5 (1? of the Butte County Code empowers the Chief
Administrative Officer to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency
when said County is affected or likely to be affected by a public calamity and the Board of
Supervisors is not in session, subject to ratification by the Board of Supervisors within seven
days; and
WHEREAS, During the spring of 2002, Butte County experienced a lack of rainfall that
required livestock to he moved to high elevation pasture one month earlier than normal due the
lack of rainfall and the availability of forage. This pattern of reduced rainfall continued this
summer to present. Now livestock is being moved back to lower elevation, one month earlier
than usual, because forage was no longer available at higher elevations. Livestock owners are
now forced to feed livestock at an earlier date and at a much higher expense to maintain their
herds. This drought condition is having a definite negative effect on a livestock industry in Butte
County that has an annual production value of nearly $7 million; and
WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors does hereby hnd that the aforesaid. conditions dial
warrant and necessitate the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency; and
WHEREAS, the Chief Administrative Officer of the County of Butte did proclaim the
existence of a local emergency within said county on the 19r" day of September 2002.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED AND ORDERED that the
proclamation of Existence of a Local Emergency, as issued by said Chief Administrative C3fficer,
is hereby ratified and confirmed by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte; and
IT IS HEREBY PROCLAMED that the Butte County Board of Supervisors is
requesting that the Governor of the State of California request that the Secretary of the United
States Department of Agriculture declare that and agricultural state of disaster exists in Butte
County due to drought conditions; and
IT IS FURTHER PROCLAIMED AND ORDERED that said local emergency shall
be deemed to continue to exist until its termination is proclaimed by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Butte, State of California; and
IT IS FURTHER PROCLAIMED AND ORDERED that during the existence of said
]ocal emergency the powers, functions and duties of the emergency organization of the County
shall be those prescribed by state law, by charter, ordinances, and resolutions of this County, and
by the County of Butte Emergency Plan, as approved by the Board of Supervisors on August 10,
1999.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors the 24`x' day of
September, 2002 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Beeler, Dolan, Houx, Yamaguchi., Chair Josiassen
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None
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E. RT OSIASSEN, Chair
Bair of Supervisors
ATTEST:
PAUL MCINTOSH, Chief Administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board o1~ Supervisors
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