TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Ryan J. Alsop, Chief Executive Office
REPORT BY: Shana A. Bagley, Deputy County Counsel
SUBJECT: Adopt a Resolution Terminating the Proclamation of Local Health Emergency Due to the 2025 Pickett Fire
RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a Resolution terminating the proclamation of a state of local health emergency due to the 2025 Pickett Fire. (Fiscal Impact: Unknown; Mandatory)
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BACKGROUND
On August 24, 2025, the Napa County Executive Officer proclaimed the existence of a local emergency due to fires at various locations in Napa County (2025 Pickett Fire). This action was ratified by the Board of Supervisors on August 26, 2025. Conditions of the 2025 Pickett Fire also created debris which could have become hazardous waste and threaten public health. CalOES requires that Napa County also declare a local health emergency to trigger state assistance with cleaning hazardous materials on private property and the local watershed. This assistance to the local watershed within Napa County was needed to implement preventative measures.
California Health and Safety Code section 101080 confers upon the local health officer, emergency powers necessary to protect public health and safety. By proclamation and declaration on August 25, 2025, Dr. Christine Wu, Napa Couty Public Health Officer, proclaimed the existence of a local health emergency due to the imminent threat to safe water supplies and hazardous waste and materials created by the 2025 Pickett Fire. This action was ratified by the Board of Supervisors on August 26, 2025.
On September 23, and October 21, 2025, the Board of Supervisors continued to proclaim and declare the emergency conditions.
Health and Safety Code section 101080 also requires that the Board of Supervisors proclaim the termination of the local health emergency when conditions warrant the termination.
Because conditions now no longer warrant a continuance of the state of local health emergency, it is requested that the Board adopt the attached resolution terminating the local health emergency declared as a result of the 2025 Pickett Fire.
FISCAL IMPACT
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Is there a Fiscal Impact? |
No |
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Is it currently budgeted? |
No |
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Is it Mandatory or Discretionary? |
Mandatory |
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Discretionary Justification: |
Napa County no longer needs to reply upon a state of local health emergency as to the Pickett Fire. |
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Is the general fund affected? |
No |
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Future fiscal impact: |
None |
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Consequences if not approved: |
Noncompliance with requirements of Health and Safety Code section 101080 |
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by California Code of Regulations, title 14, section 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.