A. A comprehensive Emergency Operation Plan shall be adopted and maintained by resolution of the Corporate Authorities upon the recommendations of the Village President. In the preparation of the plan as it pertains to the Village organization, it is the intent that the services, equipment, facilities and personnel of all existing departments and agencies shall be utilized to the fullest extent. When approved, it shall be the duty of the Director of the Emergency Management Agency, all departments, and all employees to perform the functions assigned by the plan and to maintain their portion of the plan in a current state of readiness at all times. The Emergency Operation Plan shall be considered supplementary to this chapter and have the effect of law whenever a disaster has been proclaimed.
B. Each department head assigned responsibility in the Emergency Operation Plan shall be responsible for carrying out all duties and functions assigned therein. Duties will include the organization and training of assigned Village employees and volunteers.
C. The Village President shall prescribe in a Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government Plan those positions within the disaster organization, in addition to their own, for which lines of succession are necessary. In each instance, the responsible person will designate and keep on file with the Village a current list of three (3) persons as successors to the position. The list will be in order of succession and will as nearly as possible designate persons best capable of carrying out all assigned duties and functions.
D. When a required competency or skill for a disaster function is not available within the Village government, the Village President is authorized to seek assistance from persons outside of government. The assignment of duties, when of a supervisory nature, shall also grant authority for the persons so assigned to carry out such duties prior to, during, and after a disaster. The Village may accept such services from persons outside of government on a volunteer basis. Such persons shall be enrolled as emergency management volunteers in cooperation with the heads of departments affected.
E. Some of the duties ascribed to the Village President in this section will ordinarily be handled as a matter of routine by the Emergency Management Agency's Director or Coordinator, but the responsibility and authority stem from and remain with the Village President. (Ord. 17-989, 12-12-2017)