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Resolution No. ~9--6g
RESOLUTION APPROVING LOCAL FEASIBILITY COST
SHARING AGREEMENT WITH THE RECLAMATION BOARD
AND REQUESTING THE RECLAMATION BOARD ENTER INTO
A SIMILAR AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
WHEREAS, the County of Butte has suffered extensive flood damages in the
Rock Creek -Keefer Slough area over the past five years, and there have been four
Presidential declarations of disaster including this area during said time period; and
WHEREAS, the topography of the watershed promotes flash flooding with 3,500
feet of fall in the upper 15 miles of the watershed and only 280 feet of fall in the fast
15 miles; and
WHEREAS, flooding has threatened commerce due to the repeated closures of
both Highway 99 and Highway 32, and compromised access to the Chico Municipal
Airport; and
WHEREAS, the residents of the valley and agricultural interests have suffered a
minimum of $10,000,000 in damages to infrastructure, residences, other structures
and crops in each of the declared flood disasters; and
WHEREAS, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance
Rate Maps (FIRM), effective September 29, 1989, were adopted by the Board of
Supervisors, and construction was thereafter allowed, in reliance on said FIRM
maps, outside the designated flood plains as indicated on said maps; however,
certain of those construction sites were subsequently flooded at least four times; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors on February 9, 1999, approved a
Contribution Agreement with the STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Department of
Transportation (CalTrans), wherein CalTrans agreed to provide funds for a project
Feasibility Study; and
WHEREAS, local solutions to this problem have been developed and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has prepared a Project Study Plan (PSP) and is
prepared to enter into a Feasibility Cost Sharing Agreement (FCSA) with The
Reclamation Board, to define the most feasible project to reduce or eliminate these
flooding problems; and
WHEREAS, The Reclamation Board is willing to enter into said agreement with
the Carps after this Board of Supervisors has approved and signed the Local
Feasibility Cost Sharing Agreement (LFCSA) between The Reclamation Board and
the County of Butte; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors, that a
flood control project is necessary in the Rock Creek-Keefer Slough area to protect
the health, safety and welfare of the residents of Butte County, and to expedite said
project this Board takes the following actions:
1. The Project Study Plan (PSP) is approved and Jane Dolan, Chair of the
Board of Supervisors and Mike Crump, Director of Public Works, are
authorized to sign said PSP on behalf of the County of Butte.
2. The Local Feasibility Cost Sharing Agreement (LFCSA) is approved and
Jane Dolan, Chair of the Board of Supervisors and Mike Crump, Director
of Public Works, are authorized to sign said LFCSA on behalf of the
County of Butte.
3. Jane Dolan, Chair of the Board of Supervisors, is authorized to send a
letter to The Reclamation Board requesting said Board to approve the
PSP and LFCSA at their May 21, 1999, meeting.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors, State of
California this 11th day of May, 1999, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Beeler, Houx, Josiassen, Davis and Chair Dolan
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINING: None
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JANE DOL ~PI, CHAIR
;' BUTTE COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
ATTEST:
JOHN S. BLACKLOCK,
Chief Administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board
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Deputy
INTEROFFICE ~/IEMORANDUM
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