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Committee votes to recommend implementing new emergency management strategic plan

Community Safety and Welfare Committee · February 26, 2026
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Summary

After hearing a detailed presentation on hazard updates and grant efforts, the Community Safety & Welfare Committee voted to recommend that staff proceed with implementing the city's emergency management strategic plan as the guiding document for emergency management.

Adam Matamian, the city's community development director, presented the emergency management strategic plan and asked the committee to recommend that staff proceed with implementation.

"This document builds off the local hazard mitigation plan and identifies actionable items for the short to mid term," Matamian said, describing priorities the city would pursue over the next one to five years and items planned beyond five years. He told the committee the plan seeks to shift work from response toward mitigation and preparedness so fewer responses are necessary.

Matamian said the plan includes an updated local hazard mitigation inventory and clarified the city's emergency operations center (EOC) arrangements.…

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