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REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager April 23, 2018 SUBJECT Reducing Illegal Fireworks Use in Redwood City through Comprehensive Education Campaign and Increased Fines RECOMMENDATION Approve Comprehensive Education Campaign to Reduce the Use of Illegal Fireworks in the City of Redwood City and adopt a Resolution Increasing Fines for Illegal Fireworks Use BACKGROUND The use of fireworks to commemorate holidays, especially the Fourth of July and other celebratory occasions, has been a tradition in this country going back many years. For nearly 70 years the Peninsula Celebration Association (PCA) has hosted the annual Fireworks Show in Redwood City providing a professional fireworks experience for the community that continues today. The use of fireworks by people unlicensed to display fireworks is illegal in the City of Redwood City as it is in most communities on the peninsula. On January 13, 2014 the City Council adopted Ordinance #2402 “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY REPEALING ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 12 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL; AND ADDING A NEW ARTICLE II TO CHAPTER 12 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE ‘CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE, 2013 EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE CALIFORNIA BUILDING STANDARDS COMMISSION AND BASED ON THE 2012 EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE’.” Within the ordinance, Section 12.25 prohibited “Safe and Sane” fireworks. This addition made use of all fireworks illegal in Redwood City. On January 9, 2017, the City Council adopted Ordinance #2429 “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY REPEALING ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 12 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE; AND ADDING A NEW ARTICLE II TO CHAPTER 12 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2015 EDITION INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE ALONG WITH THE 2016 EDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE, AS PUBLISHED BY THE 8.B. - Page 1