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City of Pleasanton Emergency Operations Plan 17 June 2025 emergency management programs. Examining policies, laws, regulations, and assumptions that may have unintended constraints on various underserved communities can be important before incidents occur. The City may include these areas as part of when considering these issues as part of its Whole Community Approach: • Agency: The whole community can make informed choices about their personal well-being because opportunities for engagement and information is available, understood, and accessible. • Equality: Individuals and community members impacted by risk and disasters do not have to prove or justify their deservedness or need for equal treatment. • Community Capacity: Embracing how community members define risk, recovery, and resilience is part of mitigation. Risk reduction begins by acknowledging and working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk so underlying structures and patterns are openly questioned. Historic elements of race, class, and gender can influence inequality, and should be addressed with new policies. • Access: All community members have equitable access to resources and programs, including full participation in decision-making processes that govern resource allocation, future development, and related functions. 3.5.7 Cultural Consideration CA Senate Bill 160 (2019) charged Cal OES and local governments to address culturally diverse communities in its emergency planning efforts. In consideration, the City will consider these communities in its planning efforts. Culturally diverse communities may include: • Race and ethnicity • Indigenous people • Communities of color • Immigrant and refugee communities • Gender • Age (including the elderly and youth) • Sexual and gender minorities • People with disabilities • Occupation and income level (including low-income individuals and unhoused) • Education level • People with no or limited English language proficiency • Geographic location 3.5.8 Consideration for Pets and Animals In 2006, the federal government passed the Pets Evacuations and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act as an amendment to the Stafford Act. The PETS Act directs state and local emergency preparedness plans to address the needs of individuals with pets and companion animals during a disaster or emergency. American Red Cross procedures allow for assigned service animals to accompany individuals. Pleasanton works to include consideration for the needs of pets and companion animals in plans as appropriate. Alameda County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) maintains shelters, Page 221 of 264