A Department of Emergency Service is hereby established, utilizing to the fullest extent personnel and facilities of existing City departments and agencies. The City Manager shall be responsible for its organization, administration and operation. The organization shall consist of the following:
(a) There shall be an executive head of the Department of Emergency Service, appointed by the City Commission, who shall be known as the Coordinator of Emergency Service, and such assistants, clerical help, other employees and emergency service volunteers as are deemed necessary to the proper functioning of the organization.
(b) There shall be five Deputy Coordinators, with responsibility for financial service, law enforcement, fire control, engineering services and health and medical services, appointed by the City Manager. These shall, so far as possible, be additional duty assignments for existing personnel. It is the intent of this chapter that emergency service and disaster assignments shall be as nearly consistent with normal duty assignments as possible.
(c) Employees, equipment and facilities of all City departments and of agencies suitable for or adaptable to emergency service shall be designated by the City Manager to participate in the emergency service activity.
(d) There shall be emergency service volunteers, including persons and private agencies or governmental units offering services to the organization.
(1975 Code Sec. 1.32)