(A) Funds to prepare for and meet disasters may be made available as from time to time designated by the Village Board within budgetary limits.
(B) It is the Village Board’s intent that the first recourse shall be to fund operations from those moneys regularly allocated to the agency. If the Mayor finds that demands placed upon budgeted funds in coping with a particular disaster are unreasonably great, he or she may make application for funds from the state disaster relief fund. If moneys available from the fund are insufficient, and if the Mayor finds that other sources of money to cope with the disaster are not available or are insufficient, he or she shall issue a call for an immediate session of the Village Board for the purpose of enacting ordinances as the Board may deem necessary to transfer and expend moneys appropriated for other purposes, or borrow moneys from the United States government or other public or private sources. If less than a quorum of the members of the Board is capable of convening in session to enact such ordinances for the transfer, expenditure or loan of such moneys, the Mayor is authorized to carry out these decisions until such time as a quorum of the Board can convene.
(C) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to limit the Mayor’s authority to apply for, administer and expend grants, gifts or payments in aid of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
(D) The Village Board may make appropriations for emergency management operations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the village.
(Ord. 2008-11-64, passed 11-17-2008)