{"id":2508,"date":"2024-02-13T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:59:37","slug":"board-of-supervisors-ratify-declaration-of-local-emergency-for-ventura-county-following-february-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/board-of-supervisors-ratify-declaration-of-local-emergency-for-ventura-county-following-february-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Supervisors ratify declaration of local emergency for Ventura County following February storms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2508\" class=\"elementor elementor-2508\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-636dcd4a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"636dcd4a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-56b7a5e0\" data-id=\"56b7a5e0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f43607b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6f43607b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>VENTURA, Calif. \u2013 On Tuesday, February 13, the Board of Supervisors, voted to ratify the proclamation of a local emergency put forth by the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office of Emergency Services to secure federal disaster assistance in relation to the storms that affected the county beginning on February 4. The vote to ratify occurred following the date of the proclamation since the Board of Supervisors was not in session on the date the proclamation was authored.<\/p><p>\u201cThe prospective funding that we would receive from FEMA is essential to our ability as a county to support residents as we perform repairs to local infrastructure that sustained major damage,\u201d said Kelly Long, Chair of the Board of Supervisors. \u201cWe hope these funds can quickly become available to assist the County in covering the costs related to the most recent storms.\u201d<\/p><p>The February storms brought up to 12 inches of rain in some areas of the county, producing flooding and mudflow that significantly impacted public infrastructure. Currently, the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office of Emergency Services estimates that there is nearly $40,000,000 in local damages.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are hopeful that FEMA will recognize the severity of our damage and that the President of the United States will move quickly to authorize a Federal Disaster Declaration,\u201d stated Patrick Maynard, Director of Emergency Services. \u201cMuch of the damage experienced by our county during the February storms was focused on our critical infrastructure like bridges, roadways, and levees. Repairing these assets will be costly and will without a doubt require financial assistance from the federal government.\u201d<\/p><p>The effort to qualify for federal and\/or state disaster assistance was spearheaded by the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office of Emergency Services and the Ventura County Public Works Agency which led a joint damage assessment survey team that included representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the California Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA, Calif. \u2013 On Tuesday, February 13, the Board of Supervisors, voted to ratify the proclamation of a local emergency put forth by the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office of Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}