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Ventura County board ratifies sheriffs emergency proclamation after December storms; officials estimate $14M in public damage
Summary
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 6 ratified a sheriffs proclamation of local emergency tied to severe Dec. 24 storms after hearing reports that estimated about $14 million in public damage and outlined immediate emergency repairs and timelines for roads, sewer and a collapsed storm channel.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved staff recommendations on Jan. 6 to receive a briefing on December storm impacts and ratify the Ventura County sheriff's Jan. 2 proclamation of local emergency.
Sheriff Fryhoff told the board the county had sustained "estimates are $14,000,000 in damage that we sustained as a county," and urged residents to avoid waterways and heed evacuation orders. Patrick Maynard, director of emergency services, told the board that the sheriff signed the proclamation Jan. 2 and that state law requires the board to ratify it within seven days to preserve eligibility for reimbursement.
The ratification sets the county up to pursue state disaster assistance if federal help is not available. "We will likely not be receiving any assistance from FEMA just based on the magnitude of this," Maynard said, noting FEMA requires roughly $74,000,000 in statewide damage to trigger assistance and that Ventura County had not reached that threshold.…
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