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~' <br />Recommendations: Urge residents to maintain a 72-hour water supply at home/work <br />as a back up system. Insure the city has MOU' S for use of portable water pumping <br />equipment. <br />6. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION: Mayors of Watsonville, Santa Cruz shared their <br />efforts to restore downtowns and historic buildings. Santa Cruz lost 50% of its <br />commercial core, displacing 205 businesses and 5,000 employees/residents. Watsonville <br />lost 237 home in addition to 405 damaged homes. Many old stores were destroyed. It was <br />strongly recommended that in the pre-planning for disasters, cities should have a plan to <br />preserve historic sites. The tendency, post-disaster, is to bull doze everything down. <br />Recommendation: Coordinate City's General Plan revisions with City's Disaster <br />Plan. <br />6. LANGUAGE ISSUES: Mayors from San Francisco, Watsonville, Santa Cruz and <br />leaders from community-based organizations stressed the importance of <br />communications with a community's language groups. Knowing bilingual assets, <br />especially, through faith community groups, was strongly recommended. <br />RECOMMENDATION: Work with the faith community and community based <br />organizations to identify bilingual volunteers to assist in shelter <br />operations/Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams. <br />After two days of listening to the experts, I think it is time we increase our efforts to <br />insure the welfare and safety of our community. I will pass my recommendations on the <br />the Emergency Council for consideration in their planning. It may be time to move from <br />quarterly planning to monthly meetings. <br />Our next city drill is scheduled for October 27'i' at the Emergency Operations Center. <br />