R-6656
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RESOLUTION NUMBER
6656(CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA OFFICIALLY WITHDRAWING
FROM CRISIS RELOCATION PLANNING AND AUTHORIZING
VARIOUS ACTIVITIES RELATED TO CIVIL DEFENSE
WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked
counties and local governments to prepare a preliminary plan for
Crisis
Relocation, the evacuation and relocation of their
civilian populations under the threat of nuclear attacki and
WHEREAS, the
City
of
Santa Monica has studied the
effectiveness of Crisis Relocation for protection of our citizens
from nuclear attack and found it to be unworkable for Santa
Monica, of no value toward the long term survival of our
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c2tizens, and deceptive in its offer of safety,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
The City Council of Santa Monica formally
rejects Crisis Relocation as a useful concept for civilian
defense against nuclear attack in the City.
SECTION 2.
The City Council of Santa Monica shall not
participate in any civil defense planning related solely to
nuclear war, including Crisis Relocation Planning.
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SECTION 3. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica
requests the Callfornia Sate Office of Emergency Services to
redirect the Federal funds that are currently earmarked for the
planning of Crisis Relocation in a nuclear war context, to
planning for peacetime emergencies and disasters.
SECTION 4. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica
requests the City Manager to immediately prepare, with citizen
assistance, and distribute to all of the City's residents after
April 12, 1983, an informational publication that describes why
no civil defense measure short of a gross reduction in the size
of the international arsenal of nuclear weapons, including those
of the United States, can protect this City's residents from the
effects of a nuclear attack.
SECTION 5. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica
immediately reques~s the Board of Education of the Santa
Monica/Malibu Unified School District to establish immediately
the policy that the public schools shall use neither training nor
curriculum designed to promote civil defense from nuclear war.
appropriate
production
SECTION 6. The City shall advise concerned Cltizens of the
procedures to place a measure regarding the
or transport of nuclear weapons before the voters so
the voters may express their vlewpoints on this subject
that
matter.
SECTION 7. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica
communicates to the President of the United States the urgent
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need to pursue immediate and serious negotiations with the Sov1et
Union designed to result in dramatic bilateral reductions of
their nuclear arsenals.
SECTION 8.
A copy of the report of the Citizens Advisory
Committee to the Civil Defense and Disaster Council of the City
of Santa Monica with its appended exhibits shall be included in
the reference materials of the Santa Monica Public Library.
SECTION
9.
The City Council of Santa Monica shall
communicate the report of the Citizens Advisory Committee and a
copy of this Resolution to the following agencies and persons:
Emergency
County and
California
Services.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Governor of the State of California.
State and Federal Representatives.
President of the United States.
League of Callfornia Clties in Sacramento and SCAG
SECTION 10. The City Clerk shall certify to the
Preparedness Commission
Cities of Los Angeles.
State Office of
for
the
Emergency
adoption of
this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be
in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Attorney
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED THIS
22nd
DAY
OF
March
, 1983.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING RESOLUiION
NO. 6656(CCS) WAS DULY ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
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CITY OF SANTA MONICA ~T A MEETING THEREOF HELD ON
March 22
, 198 3 BY THE FOLLOWING COUNCIL VOTE:
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Conn, Edwards, Jennings, Press, Reed,
Zane and Mayor Yannatta Goldway
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ATTESi"
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