To: Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
Department or Agency Name(s): County Administrator’s Office
Staff Name and Phone Number: Christel Querijero 707-565-7071, Yvonne Shu 707-565-1739
Vote Requirement: Informational Only
Supervisorial District(s): Countywide
Title:
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Recovery and Resiliency Framework Assessment
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Recommended Action:
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Receive an assessment of the 2018 Recovery and Resiliency Framework activities
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Executive Summary:
This item provides an assessment of activities from the 2018 Recovery and Resiliency Framework.
Discussion:
In December 2018, the Board of Supervisors approved the Recovery and Resiliency Framework <https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Main%20County%20Site/Administrative%20Support%20%26%20Fiscal%20Services/Emergency%20Management/Documents/Archive/Documents/12-11-2018%20CAO%20Recovery%20Framework%20Adoption_AttA_English_Fully%20Remediated.pdf> (Framework), a vision for how the County would recover from the 2017 wildfires, conflagrations which resulted in 24 fatalities, 110,00 acres burned, and more than 5,300 homes and businesses destroyed.
The Framework represents input received from the community and County departments in the wake of the 2017 wildfires. Since then, both the community and the County have advanced their awareness, knowledge, and preparedness for disasters, having experienced the 2019 winter storm and floods, the 2019 Kincade Fire, and the 2020 LNU Complex and Glass Fires. The Strategic Plan also incorporates many of the concepts and ideas from the Framework, which builds upon existing state and national recovery frameworks.
The last Framework update to the Board occurred in mid-2019, prior to the Kincade and Glass fires and the pandemic. For this final update, the County Administrator’s Policy, Grants and Special Projects (PGSP) division assessed each of the 273 Framework activities by utilizing known information and seeking input from the “lead” department. This look-back provides transparency to the public and a view into what the County has accomplished since the Framework was developed six years ago.
The Framework actions were grouped into five strategic areas:
1. Community Preparedness & Infrastructure: Residents, communities, public and non-governmental entities are prepared to adapt and recover in a coordinated response when disaster strikes.
2. Natural Resources: The County’s natural resources and working lands are healthy, productive, and managed to support watershed and community resiliency.
3. Economy: Partnering with local employers to become a resilient, inclusive and economically diverse community.
4. Safety Net Services: Restoring and improving the resiliency of health and social services systems, networks, and capabilities to promote equity, independence and well-being for the community.
5. Housing: A housing market that is in balance, resilient and climate smart, affordable, accessible, and diverse.
The assessment of each of these categories is as follows:
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Framework Category |
Total # of Activities |
# Completed |
% Completed |
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Community Preparedness & Infrastructure |
118 |
97 |
82% |
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Natural Resources |
67 |
64 |
96% |
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Economy |
20 |
16 |
80% |
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Safety Net Services |
23 |
20 |
87% |
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Housing |
45 |
41 |
91% |
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Framework total |
273 |
236 |
86% |
A further prioritization of the Framework activities by the Board for the first year of implementation resulted in a “Top 10” list, with each item in the Top 10 containing one or more activities.
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Priority # |
Description |
% Related Activities Completed |
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Establish a comprehensive alert and warning program |
100% |
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Work with the community to identify hazards, risks, and mitigation strategies, including evacuation routes |
100% |
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3 |
Facilitate construction hardening techniques appropriate for wildfire urban interfaces (WUI) and seismic retrofits for rebuilding and for existing homes through education and grant programs |
100% |
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4 |
Work with private utility providers on solutions related to hardening infrastructure and on coping with destroyed utilities in a disaster, including undergrounding, where appropriate and necessary |
50% |
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5 |
Help property owners navigate vegetation management opportunities through partnership with Fire Safe Sonoma and similar programs |
100% |
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6 |
Continue to advocate for substantive changes to insurance regulations |
100% |
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7 |
Engage the community to raise awareness about how to prepare and plan ahead for disasters |
86% |
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8 |
Expedited permitting for homeowners who are rebuilding (see Sonoma County Fire Rebuild Status <https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=69c1e5e57ac94624a959437dcb88c73e>)50% |
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9 |
Enhance the 2-1-1 system |
100% |
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10 |
Develop a one-stop shop resource center (to address the gap between traditional government recovery programs and households moving forward without direct assistance) |
100% |
Attachment 1 states the status of each of the Framework activities. The information in the attachment includes the Framework Strategic Area, activity reference number, a description of the activity, whether the activity falls into a Board-identified Top 10 priority, whether the County’s Five Year Strategic Plan includes related activities, and an assessment of the status of the activity. Attachment 1 is a high-level tracker of Framework activities and does not include a detailed description of the status of each proposed activity.
Some activities in the “Top 10” priorities were not assessed at 100% complete. Some of these activities are now incorporated into departmental operations, or the effort is ongoing. For the Top Ten priority related to expedited permitting, and specifically the activity, “consider opportunities for modernization and standardization of permitting to make it easier for developers to submit applications countywide,” a management review of Permit Sonoma <https://sonoma-county.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6004431&GUID=BD398424-DE1C-4406-A6BD-BC950CEC56D0> was completed in 2023 and implementation of the recommendations, including the permitting process, continues today.
Strategic Plan:
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Racial Equity:
Was this item identified as an opportunity to apply the Racial Equity Toolkit?
No
Prior Board Actions:
7/9/19 -Received 2019 Quarter 2 update on Framework implementation
4/16/19 -Received 2019 Quarter 1 update on Framework Recovery & Resiliency Framework implementation; approved funding for United Way of the Wine Country’s 211 Transition Plan.
12/11/18 - Approved the Recovery and Resiliency Framework
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Narrative Explanation of Fiscal Impacts:
There are no budgetary actions associated with this informational item.
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Narrative Explanation of Staffing Impacts (If Required):
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Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Status of Framework activities
Related Items “On File” with the Clerk of the Board:
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