A Department of Civil Defense 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) A Department of Civil Defense within the administrative organization of the City government. There shall be an executive head of the Department, appointed by the City Manager subject to confirmation by Council, who shall be known as the Director of Civil Defense, and such assistants, clerical help, other employees and civil defense volunteers as are deemed necessary to the proper functioning of the organization. The position of Director of Civil Defense may be combined with any other position in the administrative service of the City.
(b) Such deputy directors and coordinators as may be deemed necessary to furnish adequate supervision to the several civil defense functions. These shall, so far as possible, be additional duty assignments to existing personnel, and it is the intent of this chapter that civil defense and disaster assignments shall be as nearly consistent with normal duty assignments as possible.
(c) The employees, equipment and facilities of all City departments and agencies for, or adaptable to, civil defense and designated by the City Manager to participate in the civil defense activity; and
(d) Civil defense volunteers, including persons and private agencies or governmental units offering services to the organization.
(Ord. 168. Passed 3-25-57.)