(A) The Emergency Management Department is hereby created 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.
(B) The organization shall consist of the following:
(1) The Emergency Management Department within the Executive Department of the city government. There shall be an executive head of the Department of Emergency Management, appointed by the City Commission, who shall be known as the Director of Emergency Management, and such assistants, clerical help, other employees and civil defense volunteers as are deemed necessary to the proper functioning of the organization. In the absence of an appointment of a Director by the City Commission, the City Manager shall be the Director of Emergency Management;
(2) Four Deputy Directors, Finance Director, Public Safety Director (police, fire, ems), Assistant City Manager (engineering and public works), and Parks and Recreation Director, appointed by the City Manager. These shall, so far as possible, be additional duty assignments to existing personnel, and it is the intent of this chapter that emergency management and disaster assignments shall be as nearly consistent with normal duty assignment as possible;
(3) The employees, equipment and facilities of all city departments, and agencies suitable for or adaptable to emergency management and designated by the City Manager to participate in the emergency management activity; and
(4) Emergency management volunteers, including persons and private agencies or governmental units offering services to the organization.
(Ord. effective 10-14-2016)