CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

City Manager/Planning

RESOLUTION 03-78

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA CONCERNING PARTICIPATION IN THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.

WHEREAS, The City of Homer is subject to periodic flooding, causing serious damage to properties within these areas, health and safety hazards, disruption of communication and governmental services and extraordinary public expenditures; and

WHEREAS, Relief is available in the form of Federally subsidized flood insurance as authorized by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968; and

WHEREAS, It is the intent of this City Council to require the recognition and evaluation of flood hazards in all official actions relating to land use in flood plain areas having special flood hazards; and

WHEREAS, This body has the legal authority to adopt land use and control measures to reduce future flood losses pursuant to AS §29.35.180.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Homer City Council, concerning participation in the National Flood Insurance Program, that the Council resolves:

1. To assure the Federal Emergency Management Agency that it will enact as necessary, and maintain in force for those areas having flood hazards, adequate land use and control measures with effective enforcement provisions consistent with the Criteria set forth in Section 60.3 of the National Flood Insurance Program Regulations; and

2. To vest the City of Homer with the responsibility, authority, and means to:

a. Delineate or assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in delineating the limits of the areas having special flood hazards on available local maps of sufficient scale to identify the location of building sites.

b. Provide appropriate information concerning present uses and occupancy of the flood plain.

c. Cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies and private firms which undertake to study, survey, map and identify flood plain areas.

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d. Submit on the anniversary date of the community's initial eligibility, an annual report to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the progress made during the past year within the community in the development and implementation of flood plain management measures.

3. To appoint the City of Homer to maintain for public inspection and to furnish upon request a record of elevations (in relation to mean lower low water) of the lowest floor (including basement) of all new or substantially improved structures located in the special flood hazard areas.

4. To take such other official action as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the objectives of the program.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 27th day of May, 2003.

CITY OF HOMER

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JACK CUSHING, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note: NA

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