Tiburon has approved a $75,000 budget amendment to purchase additional storm response and emergency preparedness supplies ahead of a potentially severe rain season.<\/p>\n
Meteorologists predict strong El Ni\u00f1o conditions in the region starting in October. The climate pattern and the prospect of king tides have Marin municipalities preparing for potential flooding.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the Town\u2019s vulnerable drainage areas, numerous low-lying locations, public facilities, transportation corridors, and shoreline infrastructure, staff believes that additional investments in preparedness equipment and supplies are warranted to enhance the Town\u2019s ability to respond to severe weather events,\u201d Patrick Kerslake, a Tiburon public works manager, wrote in a staff report.<\/p>\n
The supplies the town intends to purchase include temporary flood barriers; a towable trash pump, which can remove water and litter from a flooded area; a portable light tower; a programmable message board, bringing the town\u2019s supply up to three; traffic control devices like cones and barriers; and sandbags and other supplies.<\/p>\n
Kerslake said the supplies will improve the town\u2019s response times, enhance its overall readiness and reduce its reliance on outside equipment, which might be limited in emergency situations. The funding for the equipment will come from the town\u2019s capital equipment reserve fund.<\/p>\n
The Town Council approved the expenditure in a 3-0 vote on Wednesday. Mayor Jon Welner and Councilmember Holli Thier were absent.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of this stuff is perishable, so even if we don\u2019t use it this year, we\u2019ll have it,\u201d Councilmember Jack Ryan said at the meeting.<\/p>\n
Other local governments gearing up for the storm season include the county. It is working on an approach with jurisdictions in Marin to improve emergency communications, assess storm infrastructure and map low-lying areas, among other actions.<\/p>\n
The county has launched a website to provide the public with information such as where to pick up sandbags. The county also says it plans to conduct a series of emergency exercises with cities, towns and first responders.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreparedness is a shared responsibility,\u201d County Executive Derek Johnson said at the Aug. 18 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. \u201cWe can\u2019t control how ultimately things will unfold this winter, but we can control how we\u2019re prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiburon has approved a $75,000 budget amendment to purchase additional storm response and emergency preparedness supplies ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,7,10648,643,644,181,23,992,100,993,101,1914,103,102,104,106,105,31023,10994],"class_list":["post-455369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-el-nino","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-marin-county","tag-news","tag-north-bay","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-bay","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tiburon","tag-weekend-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}