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Office of Wildfire Preparedness and Resilience (OWPR), a division of the Chief Administrative Office, recommending the Board:
1) Receive and file an annual update presentation from the Office of Wildfire Preparedness and Resilience;
2) Receive and file the 2025 OWPR Annual Report;
3) Approve and endorse the 2026 OWPR Annual Work Plan;
4) Make findings that the Western El Dorado County Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a road map for potential future action with no legally binding effect on future activities; and
5) Approve and authorize the Chair and Chief Administrative Officer to sign the Western El Dorado County Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On September 21, 2021 (Legistar file 21-1515), the Board directed the Chief Administrative Office (CAO) to convene an El Dorado County Vegetation Management and Resiliency Working Group to collaborate on lessons learned, define funding streams, and initiate a robust, community-based wildfire resiliency and vegetation management program that would accelerate current County efforts, and then return to the Board with recommendation for consideration. The CAO convened this working group in November 2021, consisting of representatives from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Amador-El Dorado Unit (CAL FIRE AEU), El Dorado County Fire Safe Council, El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs), El Dorado County Fire Chiefs' Association, and El Dorado County Fire Prevention Officers' Association.
On March 22, 2022 (Legistar file 22-0491), the working group presented a set of recommendations to the Board, including the creation and implementation of a strategic wildfire protection strategy for El Dorado County as well as the establishment of a dedicated wildfire resilience office within the CAO to prioritize and coordinate efforts on a countywide level based on the wildfire strategy....
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