Wildfire Local Emergency Continuation

At a glance

What: a resolution by Harris-Dawson and Blumenfield (Council File 25-0030) continuing the local emergency the Mayor declared on January 7, 2025 (updated January 13, 2025) after the windstorm and wildfires.
Where it stands: adopted by the City Council on 2026-10-21 by 14 ayes, 0 noes (Hernandez absent). It needed ten votes because no hearing had been held.
Next: the City Clerk must keep placing the matter on the agenda so the Council can decide whether to continue the emergency; the Emergency Management Department general manager advises on the need to extend it.

Ratifies the Mayor's declaration, finds the emergency continues to exist, and instructs City departments to keep responding and to seek State and federal assistance.
Suspends competitive bidding (City Charter Section 371 and Administrative Code Section 10.15) for purchases and contracts needed to respond; departments must report every two weeks on those purchases and why bidding was not practicable.
Asks enforcement departments to pursue price gouging, fraud and theft by deceit to the fullest extent of the law, and sends copies to the Governor, the State Office of Emergency Services, and County emergency management and the Board of Supervisors.
During public comment (per the video record), a landlord-group speaker said the restrictions continue without data on who is harmed and a caller criticized the pace of fire recovery; see 2026-10-21 - City Council.

Item 15. Adopted, 14 ayes, 0 noes.

Item 65. Speakers alleged the renewal blamed wind alone and omitted water-system failures; another opposed continued rent and price restrictions.