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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS E. L Contra
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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
Costa
County
DATE: April 2, 1992
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 3539 (Lempert)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)a BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position in SUPPORT of AB 3539 by Assemblyman Ted Lempert
which would require that any regional emergency services office
established by the Governor prepare an emergency plan for the
region and test that plan every two years .
BACKGROUND:
Existing law authorizes and empowers the Governor, with the advice
of the Emergency Council, to divide the state into mutual aid
regions for the more effective application, administration, and
coordination of mutual aid and other emergency-related activities.
Existing law also empowers the Office of Emergency Services to
perform various functions and duties with respect to providing
services during state emergencies . Existing law does not, however,
require each region which is established to prepare a multihazard
emergency plan or to conduct an emergency exercise on a periodic
basis consistent with the plan which is prepared.
Assemblyman Lempert has introduced AB 3539 at the request of the
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to require that the Office of
Emergency Services prepare a multihazard emergency plan for each
region which is established pursuant to these provisions . The bill
would further require each such region to conduct a regional
exercise in accordance with this plan every two years .
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Please See Page 2 . PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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The Chairman of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has
written to the Board of Supervisors noting that the regional
offices are not required to have an emergency plan nor is each
regional office required to conduct an exercise as is each County.
Their letter also points out that such disasters as the Loma Prieta
earthquake and Oakland Fire are truly regional disasters and. that
there should be a regional plan and response to mutual aid requests
and other efforts to assist the residents of other communities
within a region.
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors requested that the Board
of Supervisors support AB 3539 . The Director of the Office of
Emergency Services recommends that the Board of Supervisors support
AB 3539 . This office concurs in that recommendation.
cc: County Administrator
Director, Office of Emergency Services
The Honorable William J. Schumacher, Chairman
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
County Government Center
Redwood City, CA 94063
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates