A. The city shall have the power to make appropriations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses and for the payment of expenses of the emergency management program.
B. Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof shall offer to the state, or through the state to the city, services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan, for purposes of emergency management, acting with the consent of the city manager, may accept such offer and, upon such acceptance, the city council may authorize any city officer to receive such services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds on behalf of the city, subject to the terms of the offer and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the offer.
C. Whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall offer to the city services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan, for purposes of emergency management, the city, acting through the city manager, may accept such offer and, upon such acceptance, the city manager may authorize any city officer to receive such services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds on behalf of the city and subject to the terms of the offer.
D. The city shall have the power to provide, by ordinances or otherwise, for a local emergency management program, and shall have power to make appropriations for emergency management and disaster relief in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for ordinary expenses, and shall have power to enter into agreements for the purpose of organizing emergency management process; to provide for a mutual method of financing the emergency management program on a basis approved by the state emergency management director and satisfactory to the city council, but in which case the funds appropriated by the city and any other funds provided for the emergency management program for such mutual purpose shall be nonfiscal funds and shall be placed on deposit with the county treasurer as custodian of such emergency management funds, and from which expenditures may be made on forms prescribed by the state auditor and inspector, in accordance with procedures approved by the state emergency management director; and shall have power to render aid to other political subdivisions under mutual aid agreements; provided, that the functioning of the emergency management program shall be coordinated by the state emergency management director and the director's staff according to plans promulgated for that purpose. (2013 Code)