PREPARED BY: RONALYN NONATO DATE OF MEETING: 09/03/19
SUBJECT:
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ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF THE ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF THE CITY MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY RATING SYSTEM (CRS) 2019 RECERTIFICATION
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
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Major Policy Goal: Enhance Community Resilience, 201 Create Community-Inclusive Emergency Preparedness Plans is an adopted policy item under the FY 2019-21 City Council Priority Workplan, effective March 1, 2019.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This proposed action is not a project under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5): Organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
BACKGROUND
As a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System, the City of San Pablo is required to conduct an annual evaluation of the implementation of the Flood Management section of the City's Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP), which was adopted on April 16, 2018 with Resolution 2018-049. The evaluation was completed by City staff, with results summarized in the attached Flood Management Plan Annual Progress Report (Annual Progress Report). City Council acceptance of the Annual Progress Report is a component of the City's participation in the NFIP's Community Rating System (CRS).
The CRS program was implemented as a voluntary program for recognizing and encouraging community floodplain management activities exceeding the minimum NFIP standards. CRS rewards communities that promote flood awareness and actively implement flood-protection measures with reduced flood insurance premiums. The CRS provides insurance discounts in 5 percent increments for each of 10 rating classes, with Class 1 being the highest. A community accrues points to improve its CRS class rating and receive increasingly greater insurance rate discounts through engaging in creditable activities, organized under the following four categories:
• Public Information
• Mapping and Regulation
• Flood Damage Reduction
• Warning and Response
Implementing and maintaining the subject Flood Management Plan of the LHMP has resulted in achieving a CRS Class 8 rating with a 10 percent discount on flood insurance policies for property owners within the Special Flood Hazard Area (1% Annual Chance Flood Hazard) and 5 percent discount for property owners within the 0.2% Annual Chance Flood Hazard areas in the City, effective October 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no direct fiscal impact as a result of this report. However, this recertification should help property owners in the City maintain lowered flood insurance rates.
Attachment: Annual Progress Report of the City Flood Management Plan - 2019 Community Rating System (CRS) Recertification