The City finds that a significant and continuous potential exists for extraordinary response situations based upon prior events which have taken place in the City, including those involving specialized response resources, that have and will continue to place a substantial financial and operational burden upon police protection services, fire protection services, emergency medical services, public works services, and other emergency health and safety services. The City finds that this chapter is necessary to protect the City from excessive expense resulting from the utilization of City resources in response to defined extraordinary situations and to fairly allocate the costs resulting from incidents among those responsible for them. The City further finds that the use of municipal personnel for certain responses interferes with the provision of routine and necessary public services to the residents of the City. The City further finds that this chapter is necessary to authorize the imposition of charges and to establish a policy and set forth the methods by which the City will recover actual costs incurred in making extraordinary responses and providing services in connection with the same. This chapter does not include emergency responses associated with hazardous or dangerous materials incident or emergencies, which are covered under the “Hazardous Materials Incident Cost Recovery Ordinance.”
(Res. 2012-132A. Passed 5-7-12. Eff. 5-16-12.)