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City Council Meeting 2-28-95 Santa Monica, California
FES 2 8 1995
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 1737(CCS)
Regarding Repair Criteria and Retrofitting standards for
critical Facilities and Amending Municipal Code Section
8.04.230
INTRODUCTION
At its meeting on February 21, 1995, the city council introduced
for first reading an ordinance amending section 1 of Ordinance No.
1737(CCS) regarding repair criterla and retrofitting standards for
crltical Facilities and amending Municlpal Code Sectlon 8.04.230.
The ordinance is now presented to the city Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be
adopted.
PREPARED BY: Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 2-28-95 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1790
(city Counell series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1737 (CCS) REGARDING
REPAIR CRITERIA AND RETROFITTING STANDARDS
FOR CRITICAL FACILITIES AND AMENDING
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 8.04.230
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1- section 1 of Ordinance 1737 (CCS) is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 1. Findinqs. The city council
finds that each of the facilities listed in
this Section serves an essential governmental
purpose and provides essentl.al governmental
services that are critical to protect the
health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of
Santa Monica and to preserve the public peace
in the event of a natural disaster, for the
reasons set forth below:
(a) The Santa Monl.ca Police Department
and the Santa Monica Clty Hall, located at
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1685 Main street, house the City's Emergency
Operations Command Center (IIEOC" ) and other
governmental offices which have first line
responsibility in providing essential
governmental services to the City to preserve
the health, safety and welfare of its citizens
in the event of a major disaster.
(b) The Santa Mon1ca Municipal Airport,
located at 3200 Airport Avenue, including but
not limited to its Administration building,
Airfield Maintenance Building, fixed base
operator building, runway, and control tower,
is the staging area for the Emergency
Volunteer Air Corps which is charged with
providing emergency air transportation to the
City's emergency workers to bring them to the
City in the event of a major disaster, is one
of the mass storage locations for emergency
shelter supplies, is a staging area for
emergency supplies and heavy equipment, and
has been designated a mass care shelter and a
casualty collection point for triage and
initial emergency medical treatment.
(c) The Santa Monica Animal Shelter,
located at 1640 9 \.I"i Street, is charged with
the handling and caring of animals which
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cannot be housed ln emergency shelters and
animals which pose a health and safety threat
to the communlty.
Cd} The Santa Monica civic Auditorium
and adJacent parklng lot, located at 1855 Main
street, has been identified in the City's
Emergency Plan as providing emergency
functions includ1.ng the feeding of emergency
workers, the sheltering of displaced disaster
v1.ctims, the staging of emergency equipment,
vehicles and personnel; and is a designated
emergency supply distribution site.
(e) The Santa Monica Ken Edwards center,
located at 1527 4th street, is the City's
alternate Emergency operations Command Center
location and has also been designated to serve
as a community emergency assistance center.
(f) The Santa Monica Main Library,
located at 1343 6th street, is the designated
family care facility for emergency workers
whose families have been impacted by the
disaster and require emergency shelter1.ng
services so that emergency workers may staff
the Emergency Operations Command Center
knowing that their children will be safe anti
cared for.
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(g) The Santa Monica Public Works Yard,
located at 2500 Michigan Avenue, and the
Transfer Station, located at 2401 Delaware
Avenue, provide emergency support services
including debris removal, traffic control,
fleet maintenance, public facilities
maintenance, electrical and radio repair,
utility management and restoration, solid
waste management and other vital emergency
response services.
(h) The Santa Monica Fire Training
Center, located at 2500 Michigan Avenue,
houses the Fire Department's Support Services
Division, which is directly responsible for
managing the City'S Emergency Services program
and provides immediate response to the city
following a disaster.
( i) The structures located l.n the
following Santa Mon1.ca Recreation and Park
facilities have been identified in the City'S
Emergency Response Plan and by the city as
locations for emergency community services
including emergency mass care shelters, first
aid stations, disaster serV1.ce centers and
emergency supply and information distribution
points:
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Lincoln Park (except Miles Playhouse)
Lincoln and Wilshlre Boulevards
Marine Park
16th and Marine streets
(also a child care center)
Memorial Park
14th street and Olympic Boulevard
(also a Casualty collection Point)
Virginia Park
2200 Virginia Avenue
Police Activity League
1401 Olympic Boulevard
Senlor Recreation Center
1450 Ocean Avenue
(j) The Santa Monica Municipal Bus
Lines, located ln the Grounds and Maintenance
Building at 1620 6th street and the
Transportation Administration Building at 1660
7th street, are charged with the
responsibility of providing emergency
transportation for evacuatlonsi the
Administration Buildlng has been designated to
shelter the families of Santa Monica Municipal
Bus Lines employeesi the Administratlon
Building houses the Transportatlon Dispatch
Center, which lS the communlcatlons center for
the dispatch of emergency publ1.c
transportation and WhlCh provldes emergency
radio communication regarding emergency
transportation routes to the Fire Department
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and to the Police Department and backup
reporting of damage assessment information;
the Adminlstration Building also houses the
Santa Monica Police Department Office of
special Enforcement which will function as a
police substation during a disaster.
(k) Moss Avenue Sewer pumping Station,
located at 1601 Appian Way, Arcadia Water
Treatment Plant, located at 1228 South Bundy
Avenue, Los Angeles, Charnock Pumping station,
located at 11375 Westminster, Los Angeles, Mt.
Olivette Reservoir, located at 930 Franklin
Street, Santa Monica, and Riviera Golf Course
Reservoir, located at 1252 Capri Drive, Los
Angeles, have been designated as critical
lifeline facilities in the Technical
Background Report to the Safety Element of the
Santa Monica General Plan, commonly known as
the seismic Safety Element, because they
provide water for drinking and emergency
response operations, sewage processing, and
water processing.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 8.04.230 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
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8.04.230. Critical Facilities.
Division 1.00. oesiqnation of critical
Facilities. The following facilities are
designated as crit1cal facilities which are
necessary for emergency operations subsequent
to a natural disaster: Santa Monica Police
Department, Santa Monica city Hall, Santa
Monica Municipal Airport Administration
Building, Airfield Maintenance Building, fixed
base operator building, runway and control
tower, Santa Monica Animal Shelter, Santa
Monica civic Auditorium, the Ken Edwards
Center, Santa Monica Main Library, Santa
Monica Public Works Yard, Santa Monica
Transfer Station, Santa Monica Fire Training
Center, the structures located in the Santa
Monica Recreation and Park facilities at
Lincoln Park except Miles Playhouse, Marlne
Park, Memorial Park, and V1rginia Park, Police
Activity League, Senior Recreation Center,
Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines Grounds and
Maintenance Build1ng and Administratlon
Building, Moss Avenue Sewer Pumping Station,
Arcadia Water Treatment Plant, Charnock
Pumping station, Mt. Olivette Reservoir, and
Riviera Golf Course Reservoir.
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O.lvision 200. Analysis and Repair of
critical Facilities subsequent to a Natural
Disaster. When any critical facility located
in the City of Santa Monica is damaged in
excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
($25,000.00) as a result of a natural
disaster, such critical facility shall be
analyzed, designed, repaired and upgraded to
the same design and performance standards
applicable to an essential facility in
compliance with the UBC, including, but not
limited to, Part III-Earthquake Design,
commencing at Section 2330 of the UBC, adopted
by the City in effect at the time the analysis
is conducted, or, in the event that a building
permit is issued for repairs, then the UBC
adopted by the City in effect at the time the
building permit for such repairs is issued,
whichever is later.
SECTION 3. Any provisions of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or Appendices thereto, inconsistent with the provisions of this
Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further,
are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect
the provisions of thL5 Ordinance.
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SECTION 4. If any sect1.on, subsect1.on, sentence, clause, or
phrase of this Ordinance 1.5 for any reason held to be invalld or
unconstitutional by a decislon of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The city Councl1 hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared
invalld or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion
of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall slgn and the Clty Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The city Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once ln the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effectlve 30 days from its adoptlon.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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MARSHA JONES MOU' IE
city Attorney
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Mayor
State of CalIforma )
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CIty of Santa Maruca )
I, Beth Sanchez, AssIstant CIty Clerk of the CIty of Santa Moruca, do hereby certIfy that the
foregomg Ordmance No 1790 (CCS) had Its first readmg on February 21, 1995 and had Its
second reading on February 28, 1995 and was passed by the followmg vote
Ayes CouncIlmembers' Genser. Greenberg, Holbrook, Rosenstem, Abdo,
O'Connor
Noes CouncIlmembers' None
Abstam CouncIlmembers None
Absent CouncIlmembers Ebner
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