EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF CALIFORNIAPROCLAMATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY
WHEREAS the City of Rancho Palos Verdes is home to four out of five subslides that comprise the Greater Portuguese Landslide Complex, which wasdiscovered in 1956 and had been sliding at an average of several inches peryear; andWHEREAS the land movement under the City of Rancho Palos Verdes has
accelerated significantly following the 2023 and 2024 severe storm events and isnow sliding at an average of 9 to 12 inches per week; andWHEREAS local governments or utilities serving the area could not
immediately predict how the acceleration of land movement would impact
residences and businesses in the area; andWHEREAS the Governor's Office of Emergency Services has beencoordinating with emergency response officials in Los Angeles County for nearlya year, including providing Rancho Palos Verdes city officials and county
officials with technical assistance, offering guidance on the Standardized
Emergency Management System, attending supporting the local assistancecenter, facilitating the federal mitigation grant that is helping to support therecent groundwater work in the area, and helping officials with initial damage
estimates; andWHEREAS on August 29, 2024, the acute accelerated land movement
impacted a utility line that resulted in a spot brush fire on the Southern California
Edison (SCE) Shoreline Circuit, leading to a determination by SCE that it is nolonger safe to operate portions of this circuit; andWHEREAS on September 1, 2024, due to the threat to public safety, SCE
shut off power to a portion of the Shoreline Circuit indefinitely, affecting 140
residences and 53 businesses in the Portuguese Bend community; andWHEREAS on September 2, 2024, SCE shut off the power to another 105
residences in the Seaview Community due to the threat to public safety, withthe power to 20 of these residences shut off indefinitely; andWHEREAS the indefinite nature of the power shutoffs has the potential tothreaten the habitability of impacted residences throughout the affected
communities; andWHEREAS the power shutoffs have threatened the disruption of the city
sewage system, the failure of which would cause an imminent public healthconcern and threaten the habitability of residences throughout the affected
communities; andWHEREAS the Los Angeles County Sheriff has issued evacuation warnings
to some City of Rancho Palos Verdes residents impacted by the disruption tobasic utility services; andWHEREAS local authorities are likely to require state assistance for any
necessary evacuations and temporary sheltering of impacted residents; andWHEREAS under the provisions of Government Code section 8558(b), I findthat conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist due
to the acute acceleration of land movement that has impacted the provision ofbasic utility services; and~

WHEREAS under the provisions of Government Code section 8558(b), I findthat the conditions caused by the acute acceleration of land movement
impacting the provision of basic utility services, by reason of its magnitude, arebeyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any
single local government and require the combined forces of a mutual aid
region or regions to appropriately respond; andWHEREAS under the provisions of Government Code section 8625( c), I findthat local authorities are inadequate to cope with the magnitude of thedamage caused by the acute acceleration of land movement impacting theprovision of basic utility services; andWHEREAS under the provisions of Government Code section 8571, I findthat strict compliance with various statutes and regulations specified in thisProclamation would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of thisacute acceleration of land movement impacting the provision of basic utilityservices.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California,in accordance with the authority vested in me by the State Constitution andstatutes, including the California Emergency Services Act, and in particular,Government Code section 8625, HEREBY PROCLAIM A STATE OF EMERGENCY toexist in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes due to the impacts of the acuteacceleration of land movement on the provision of basic utility services.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
l. All agencies of the state government utilize and employ state
personnel, equipment, and facilities for the performance of any and allactivities consistent with the direction of the Office of Emergency
Services and the State Emergency Plan. Also, all residents are to obey
the direction of emergency officials with regard to this emergency inorder to protect their safety.

2. The Office of Emergency Services sha ll provide assistance to local
governments, if appropriate, under the authority of the California
Disaster Assistance Act, Government Code section 8680 et seq., andCalifornia Code of Regulations, Title 19, section 2900 et seq.
I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Proclamation befiled in the Office of the Secretary of State and that widespread publicity andnotice be given of this Proclamation.

This Proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any rights orbenefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against theState of California, its agencies, departments, entities, officers, employees, or
any other person.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF I havehereunto set my hand and caused
the Great Seal of the State ofalifornia to bf affixed this 3rd day
September /£024.

ATTEST:SHIRLEY WEBER, PH.D.
Secretary of State~~