Special Notice / Hearing: None
Vote Required: 4/5ths
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Don Mattei, Interim Director, Department of Emergency Management
Subject: Acceptance of 2022 CAL FIRE Evacuation Route Planning and Development Grant Funds
RECOMMENDATION:
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Measure K: Recommendation to:
A) Adopt a resolution authorizing the County Executive or designee(s), to accept a grant from the California Fire Safe Council and to execute the agreement associated with that grant to implement priority fuels treatment projects along emergency evacuation routes for the term of September 1, 2022, through February 29, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $380,000; and
B) Approve an Appropriation Transfer Request (ATR) in the amount of $380,000, recognizing unanticipated revenue from the California Fire Safe Council 2022 CAL FIRE Evacuation Route Planning and Development Grant Program; and
C) Approve an Appropriation Transfer Request (ATR) transferring $187,500 of Measure K funds from the County Executive's Office to the Department of Emergency Management to supplement emergency evacuation route fuel reduction efforts.
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BACKGROUND:
The California Fire Safe Council manages the CAL FIRE Evacuation Planning & Development Grant Program to support counties with evacuation route identification, planning, fuel reduction, maintenance, and signage for use during emergencies. The Department of Emergency Management (DEM), in conjunction with San Mateo County Fire and ZoneHaven, have completed an automated systematic evacuation program which has carefully calculated neighborhood populations and potential traffic densities along arterial and branch evacuation routes.
The County areas have been divided into zones which can be evacuated simultaneously or independently to allow for adequate traffic flow. San Mateo County Department of Public Works is tasked with hazardous vegetation management along the right of ways of the public roads, including eva...
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