City officials on Tuesday considered ways for residents and businesses to better prepare for and perhaps prevent disasters — even as the city continues to repair damage wrought by the Dec. 22 flood.
The City Council voted unanimously to sponsor a workshop to gather the opinions of residents and businesses about how to deal with disaster, to create a Laguna Canyon Flood Mitigation Task Force, to hire a contractor to repair the Main Beach boardwalk and to work on short-term and permanent restorations of Laguna Canyon Creek at the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter.
"I want to push the workshop forward while the disaster is still on people's minds," said Councilwoman Elizabeth Pearson, who will co-chair the workshop with Councilman Kelly Boyd. "We are looking for ideas about what to do before, during and after a disaster and to do it sooner than later."