City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: JUNE 7, 2017
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of Adoption of a Resolution Adopting the 2017 Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan. [ROLL-CALL VOTE]
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ISSUE: Consideration of adopting the 2017 Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council adopt the attached resolution on the 2017 Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan.
BACKGROUND: The Code of Virginia ?44-146.19 authorizes and requires each political subdivision within the Commonwealth to be responsible for local disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, as amended requires that local governments develop, adopt, and update natural hazard mitigation plans in order to receive certain federal assistance. The Code of Virginia requires City Council approval of the plan. City Council adopted the 2017 Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan on May 9, 2017, and staff is now seeking formal adoption of the required formal resolution at this time.
DISCUSSION: A Mitigation Advisory Committee (MAC), comprised of representatives from the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William; the Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park; and Dumfries, the Towns of Haymarket, Herndon, Leesburg, Lovettsville, Middleburg, Purcellville, Occoquan, Round Hill, and Vienna, was convened in order to assess the risks of hazards facing the Northern Virginia Region, and to make recommendations on actions to be taken to mitigate these hazards.
The Northern Virginia Hazard Mitigation Plan incorporates the comments, ideas, and concerns of the community and of the public in general, which this plan is designed to protect, ascertained through a series of public hearings, publicatio...
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