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To adopt the Franklin County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, Franklin County has a history of experiencing damage from flooding, tornadoes, severe summer weather, thunder storms, winter storms, and other hazards resulting in loss of life, property loss, economic hardship, and threats to public health and safety; and
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan has been developed after more than a year of research and work done by Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security and representatives of various local governmental agencies and stakeholder organizations; and
WHEREAS, the plan recommends many hazard mitigation actions, prepared and submitted by local jurisdictions, designed to protect the people and property impacted by the natural hazards and threats faced by Franklin County; and
WHEREAS, adoption of a natural hazards mitigation plan is a condition of eligibility to receive federal mitigation funds available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety in that it is immediately necessary to pass this resolution as an emergency measure for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore;
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That Columbus City Council does hereby adopt the Franklin County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan.
That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approvals by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.