The Sausalito City Council has approved a \u201cproclamation of local emergency\u201d to more nimbly respond to El Ni\u00f1o flooding and storm risks.<\/p>\n
The move on Tuesday ratified a declaration last week by Brandon Phipps, the interim city manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Sept. 21, the governor declared a statewide emergency ahead of what could be a historic El Ni\u00f1o season,\u201d Phipps wrote in a staff report. \u201cOn Oct. 16, as director of emergency services, I proclaimed a local emergency for this city. State law requires the county to ratify it within seven days.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Rafael declared a similar local emergency on Oct. 5, and Larkspur was expected to do so on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Sausalito proclamation enables it to more closely coordinate with county operations during increasingly high king tides expected next week and on Thanksgiving and Christmas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt activates our emergency organization and plans,\u201d Phipps said. \u201cIt allows me to issue temporary orders to protect life and property such as closing flooded streets. It lets us redeploy city staff across departments and obtain supplies quickly, and it supports requests for aid and state resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat it does not do is perhaps just as important,\u201d he said. \u201cIt does not bring disaster funding now. \u2026 Any reimbursement will depend on an actual event and documented damage. So we\u2019re making sure that we\u2019re already doing that: documenting current conditions, photographing what is currently there and tracking costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
City officials briefly discussed other preparations underway. For one, the Department of Public Works is giving away sandbags at Martin Luther King Jr. Park.<\/p>\n
For another, several departments are working with property owners along Varda Landing Circle to raise the private drive as a levee to prevent king tides from flooding the neighborhood. The project includes installing a tide gate at the end of the Coloma Street canal, which drains hillside runoff west of the shoreline area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe gates themselves need time for fabrication and delivery, so we\u2019re also lining up a contractor if needed to install a cofferdam and pumps in the canal before the Thanksgiving tides,\u201d Phipps said. \u201cThis would be considered a hyper short-term measure with the tide gates to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTemporary pumps will be on hand when heavy rains and high tides coincide,\u201d he said. \u201cThe estimated cost here is about $280,000.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sausalito City Council has approved a \u201cproclamation of local emergency\u201d to more nimbly respond to El Ni\u00f1o…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[74130,7,179818,643,644,181,23,992,100,180,993,266,101,103,102,3624,3625,104,106,105,19],"class_list":["post-504333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-2026-storms","tag-california","tag-el-niu00f1o","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-marin-county","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-north-bay","tag-northern-california","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sausalito","tag-sausalito-city-council","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504333","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=504333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}