The Emergency Management Director shall, in cooperation with existing city departments and agencies affected, organize, recruit, and train personnel that may be required on a volunteer basis to carry out the civil defense plans of the city and the state. To the extent that such emergency personnel are recruited to augment a regular or combined city department or agency for civil defense emergencies they shall be assigned to such department or agency for purposes of administration and command. The Emergency Management Director is authorized to combine, for civil defense purposes, the facilities and personnel of city departments or agencies performing the same or similar functions and to designate the head of such combined unit. The Emergency Management Director may dismiss any civil defense volunteer at any time and require him to surrender any equipment and identification furnished by the city.
(Ord. passed 3-11-09)