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A RESOLUTION DECLARING AN EMERGENCY IN THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT
AND ADOPTING MEASURES TO PREVENT, MINIMIZE, RESPOND TO OR
RECOVER FROM THE WILDFIRE EMERGENCY
RECITALS:
A. ORS 401.305 and Central Point Emergency Operations Plan ("EOP") provide
authority for the City of Central Point to act as an emergency management
agency, including authority to establish policies and protocols for defining and
directing responsibilities during the time of emergency.
B. There are currently multiple active fires in Jackson County resulting in the
evacuation of a significant number of county residents, a Red Cross facility being
opened at the Jackson County Expo and an emergency declaration for the entire
County.
C. Governor Brown declared a state of emergency in the state of Oregon on August
19, 2020.
D. Members of Oregon's Congressional delegation and FEMA announced that an
emergency disaster declaration for the state of Oregon has been approved due to
continued wildfires as of September 10, 2020.
E. The foregoing circumstances require a coordinated response beyond that
which occurs routinely, and the required response cannot be achieved solely
with the added resources acquired through mutual aid or cooperative
assistance agreements.
F. The City of Central Point can take steps to help mitigate and avoid some of the
most drastic consequences of the fire and evacuations through actions that
result in the assistance of sheltering evacuees and providing hygiene
resources.
G. The foregoing circumstances have the potential to affect all of the territory
within the City limits.
H. The foregoing circumstances are anticipated to remain in effect for a
significant period of time.
The City of Central Point resolves as follows:
Section 1. It is declared that a state of emergency now exists in the City of Central
Point, encompassing all of the area within the City limits.
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Section 2. The City Manager is hereby authorized to take such actions and issue
such orders as are determined to be necessary to protect the public and property and
to efficiently conduct activities that minimize or mitigate the effect of the emergency
as described in ORS Chapter 401 and the EOP.
Section 3. The City shall take all necessary steps authorized by law to coordinate
response and recovery from this emergency, including, but not limited to, requesting
assistance and potential reimbursements from the State of Oregon and the appropriate
federal and county agencies, and it is declared that the City of Central Point has
expended all appropriate and available resources.
Section 4. Emergency procurements of goods and services are authorized pursuant
to ORS 2798.080, ORS 279C.335(6), ORS 279.380(4), and all other applicable rules.
Section 5. The City Manager may enter into mutual aid agreements between the
County, the City and other cities within the County or neighboring counties for the
support of the activities of the City or these other jurisdictions during this declared state
of emergency provided that the City, under such a mutual aid agreement entered into by
the City Manager, may not assume control over non-City of Central Point personnel,
equipment or resources.
Section 6. This declaration is effective on September 17, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. and shall
remain in effect until October 1, 2020 unless superseded sooner.
Section 6. This declaration of emergency may be extended in two-week increments
so long as wildfires continue to pose an on-going, immediate, and substantial threat to
life, safety, health, or property in the City of Central Point.
Section 7. The City Council grants the City Manager authority to extend the declaration
of emergency, to be ratified by Council at subsequent regularly scheduled Council
meetings.
Passed by the Council and signed by me in authentication of its passage this 17th
day of September, 2020.
Mayor Hank Williams
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