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RESOLUTION NO. 2026-009
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARROYO
GRANDE APPROVING THE 2025-2030 UPDATE TO THE SAN LUIS
OBISPO COUNTY MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL HAZARD MITIGATION
PLAN AND ACCOMPANYING CITY-SPECIFIC ANNEX
WHEREAS, the cost of disaster recovery in the United States has dramatically
increased over the past decades, promoting interest in providing effective ways to
minimize our country’s hazard vulnerability; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 constitutes an effort by the
Federal government to reduce the rising cost of disasters; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 ties mitigation funding to cities,
counties, and special districts that have adopted Local Hazard Mitigation Plans; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 was to establish
a national program for pre-disaster mitigation, streamline administration of disaster relief
at both the Federal and state levels, and control Federal costs of disaster assistance;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Arroyo Grande seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster -
resistant City and region by reducing the potential loss of life, property damage, and
environmental degradation from natural disasters, while accelerating economic recover
from those disasters; and
WHEREAS, the City of Arroyo Grande, in coordination with the County of San Luis
Obispo, all local Municipalities, Community Service Districts, and local Sanitation
Districts participated in the FEMA-prescribed mitigation planning process to prepare a
Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan; and
WHEREAS, the 2025-2030 Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan will serve as the
City of Arroyo Grande’s required update of the 2020 Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard
Mitigation Plan; and
WHEREAS, the California Office of Emergency Services and FEMA officials have
reviewed the San Luis Obispo County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan and
approved it contingent upon this official adoption of the participating bodies .
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Arroyo Grande hereby resolves as follows:
1. Recitals. All recitals above are true and correct and hereby incorporated into
reference.
2. CEQA. The Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan is not a project subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) because it has no potential to
result in either a direct, or reasonably foreseeable indirect, physical change in the
environment. (State CEQA Guidelines, §§ 15060, subd. (b)(2)-(3), 15378.)
because it is a mitigation plan document for planning purposes, and any future
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projects associated with the plan will be subject to CEQA review. Alternatively,
the MJHMP is exempt from CEQA on the basis that it can be seen with certainty
that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant
effect on the environment. (State CEQA Guidelines, § 15061, subd. (b)(3).)
3.Adoption. Adopt the San Luis Obispo County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation
Plan, including the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the City of Arroyo Grande as
set forth in Annex A of the Plan, a full copy of which is on file in the Community
Development Department and is hereby incorporated by reference.
4.Filing. Directs the City Clerk to submit a copy of this Resolution to the County of
San Luis Obispo to be included with the submissions to the California Office of
Emergency Services and FEMA officials to enable the plan’s final approval in
accordance with requirements of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000.
5.Severability. If any section, division, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this
resolution or the document in the record in support of this resolution is determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable, unconstitutional or
otherwise void, that determination shall not affect the validity of the remaining
sections, divisions, sentences, clauses, or phrases of this resolution.
On a motion by Council Member Guthrie, seconded by Council Member Secrest, and by
the following roll call vote to wit:
AYES: Council Members Guthrie, Secrest, Loe, Maraviglia, and Mayor Ray Russom
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
the foregoing Resolution was adopted this 10th day of February, 2026.
CAREN RAY RUSSOM, MAYOR
ATTEST:
JESSICA MATSON, CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
MATTHEW DOWNING, CITY MANAGER
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ISAAC ROSEN, CITY ATTORNEY
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OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION
I, JESSICA MATSON, City Clerk of the City of Arroyo Grande, County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury, that the
attached Resolution No. 2026-009 was passed and adopted at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Arroyo Grande on the 10th day of February, 2026.
WITNESS my hand and the Seal of the City of Arroyo Grande affixed this 12th day
of February, 2026.
JESSICA MATSON, CITY CLERK