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HomeMy WebLinkAbout95-049PROCLAMATION OF E~STENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1323 of the County of Butte empowers the Board of Supervisors to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency when said County is affected or likely to be affected by a public calanuty; and WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors has proclaimed a local emergency by Resolution No. 95-40 on March 14, 1995 and extended the existence of a local emergency by Resolution No. 95-45 on March 28, 1995; and WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors does hereby find: That conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property continue within said County, caused by a succession of wind and rainstorms which have resulted in the wide spread flooding of low lying residential and agricultural areas causing, or threatening, significant property damage and risk to human life, commencing on or about 9:40 a.m. on the 9th day of March, 1995; and That the aforementioned conditions of extreme peril warrant and necessitate the proclamation of the existence of a local emergency. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED that a local emergency now exists throughout said County; and IT IS FURTHER PROCLAIMED AND ORDERED that during the existence of said local emergency the powers, functions and duties of the Director of Emergency Services and the emergency organisation of this County shall be those prescribed by state law, by charter, ordinances, resolutions of this County, and by the County of Butte Emergency Plan, as approved by the Board of Supervisors on Apri121, 1992. IT IS FURTHER PROCLAIlvIED 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. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors this 11th day of April, 1995, by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Meyer, Dolan, Houx, Thomas, and Chair McLaughlin NOES: None ABSENT: None NOT VOTING: None r C ED McLAUGHLIN, air Butte County Board of Supervisors ATTEST: JOHN S. BLACKLOCK, Chief Administrative Officer and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Deputy