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Committee approves charter edits to prioritize Firewise communities and expand membership
Summary
Portola Valley's Wildfire Preparedness Committee voted to add language encouraging the formation and maintenance of Firewise communities, remove a duty to coordinate evacuation (leaving evacuation work to the EPC), and increase membership from five to seven to ease quorum issues; members discussed logistics for subcommittees and next steps to present changes to Town Council.
The Portola Valley Wildfire Preparedness Committee approved a set of modest charter changes designed to emphasize community mitigation and make the committee easier to staff.
Chair (speaker 1) proposed adding language to the charter to "explicitly say that we are going to encourage the formation [and] maintenance of Firewise Communities in town," removing a later duty that directed…
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