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This is an advanced copy of a Grand Jury report that will he publicly released on _i,�i., a 7n�2, penat Code section 933.05 {f} �rohibits any officer, agency, 6.1.K. - Page 7 or go�erning body of a pub[ic agency from disclosing any cor�tents of the report prior to the public re[ease of this re�or�. The ESC reviews and recommends emergency plans, programs, and agreements far adoption by the Board of Supervisors and city councils in arder to carry out the purposes of an emergency services organization. The Sherif�s OES serves as the ESC's eznergency ser�ices organization and is responsible far minimizing the ef�ects of disasters and major emergencies an thE County's citizens.� The 20Q6-2007 Grand Jury Report on dams and la�vees directed two Recammendations to the ESC.B The first Reconaznendatian issued was as follows: 1. Autharize and fund, by Decezxiber 3I, 2007, the Office of Emergency Servzces/Homeland Security to work with oth.er entities in the County to acquire whatever informatian is necessary to assess risk and develap response plans for levee and dam emergencies. This effart should use all available infarma#ion, including that collectad by FEMA, to forxnulate p�ans specific to our County and to incorporate those p�ans into the Of�ice of Emergency Services/Homeland Security (OES/HS} Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) by July 31, 2008. The ESC agr��d with this Recommendation, stating, howevez, that funding r�vas not available in the 200fi-2007 budget. The ESC said it would attempt to secure grant funding and work would be completed at the "earliest possible opportunity."g On March 2b, 20X2, the Gxand Jury sent a letter to the Board of Supervisor repxesentati�e on the ESC ta ask if the ESC had met its comrr�itment in respanse to this Recorr�mendation. Repeated attempts by the Grand lury�ailed to generate a response f'rom Supervisar Tissier. Accarding to OES, it secuxed fiinding in fiscal year 2007�2008 �or work to begin on the dam and levee Recomm�ndatians. This funding resulted in the creatio� o�a dam database, inundation maps of hazardous dams, and a sectian on dams in the County E�P. With the resources available, �zt�le progress was made on levees. No additional funding was pz-o�ided ta continue this work in 2008-20Q9 ar in subsequent budget years. Tha funding of the OES 7oint Power Agreement has rernained relatively flat far years. The �ES Dir�ctar said in 2008 that additional fundi�g would be sought for the dams and levees project. The af�'ice did apply ta the CaIifornia Emergency Management Agency fox a Hazard Mitigation grant to fund the praject; however, the application was denied.lo � San Mateo County Ci�il Grand Jury,20�6-2Da7: E€nergency PIanning for Dam or I.evee Failures in San Mateo County, p 2. a Id.p7. 9 Letter ta Hon.]oFm L. Grandsaert,Re:2006-07 Grand.Tury Report: Emergancy Pianning for Dam ar Le�ee Failures in San Mateo County, fram Rose 7acobs Gibson,President, San Mateo Board of Supervisors and Chair, San Mateo County Emergency Services Counci[, September 26,200'7. 10 Letter to the 2011-2012 Grand Iury in response to its 'tnqtiiry regarding the status of the ESC cornmitment to authorize and fund the OES to work on dam and le�ees per the 2006-2007 Grand Jury Report, from Supervising Manager, OES,April 1�,2012. 4