HM 84 — COUNTY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REVIEW

HOUSEA MEMORIAL 84REQUESTING 53RDTHAT LEGISLATURETHE -HOMELAND STATESECURITY OFAND NEWEMERGENCY MEXICOMANAGEMENT -DEPARTMENT SECONDCONDUCT SESSIONA ,REVIEW 2018OF INTRODUCEDEMERGENCY BYPREPAREDNESS, DerrickRESPONSE J.AND COMMUNICATIONS ON A COUNTY-BY- COUNTY BASIS;

Lente and Sheryl Williams Stapleton 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL REQUESTING THAT THE HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT CONDUCT A REVIEW OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND COMMUNICATIONS ON A COUNTY-BY-COUNTY BASIS;

167 WHEREAS, on January 8, 2018, the national oceanic and e t 17 atmospheric administration issued a report on the costs of w l n d 18 weather and climate events in 2017 in the United States;

and = = 19 a l WHEREAS, there were sixteen extreme weather and climate i a e r 20 events in the United States in 2017 that created damages in a t m m 21 excess of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) each;

and d r e 22 WHEREAS, the total national cost of weather and climate c e s k 23 events for 2017 set a new record at approximately three hundred e a n b 24 six billion dollars ($306,000,000,000);

and u [ WHEREAS, the damages from wildfires in the western United .210003.2 States in 2017 totaled approximately eighteen billion dollars ($18,000,000,000), three times the previous record;

and WHEREAS, small rural and farming communities typically have limited internal resources to both prepare for and HM 84 respond to weather disaster events, which increases their Page 1 reliance on statewide planning and assistance;

and WHEREAS, post-event review is critical to improving response efforts and communications systems for both state-to-state- local-agencyto-local-agency and agency-to-general-public communications regarding natural disasters;

and WHEREAS, on January 23, 2018, the national integrated drought information system published drought monitor statistics and a map for New Mexico showing that nearly ninety-four e e 17 percent of New Mexico is experiencing drought conditions and e e n d 18 nearly sixty percent is categorized as experiencing "severe = = l ] 19 drought";

and a l r i 20 WHEREAS, while a drought is often an incrementally t e a t developing event, it can create the conditions for rapid m m 21 e d r e 22 catastrophic events;

c e r c 23 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF e a n b 24 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the homeland u [ security and emergency management department be requested to .210003.2 - 2 - conduct a review of the damaging weather and climate events in 2017 in New Mexico, to include:

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and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in conducting its review, the homeland security and emergency management department actively engage county and tribal governments and the acequia commissions and boards of the land grants-mercedes in each e e 17 county;

and e e n d 18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the homeland security and = = l ] 19 emergency management department report its findings and a l r i 20 recommendations to the appropriate interim legislative t e a t committee prior to that committee's final meeting in 2018;

and m m 21 e d r e 22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be c e r c 23 transmitted to the secretary of homeland security and emergency e a n b 24 management.

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