(1) The Director, with the consent of the Council/Mayor, shall represent the city on any regional or state conference for emergency management. The Director shall develop proposed mutual aid agreements with other political subdivisions of the state for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance in an emergency too great to be dealt with unassisted, and shall present the agreements to the Council/Mayor for its action. The arrangements shall be consistent with the State Emergency Plan.
(2) The Director shall make studies and surveys of the manpower, industries, resources and facilities of the city as deemed necessary to determine their adequacy for emergency management and to plan for their most efficient use in time of an emergency or disaster. The Director of emergency management shall establish the economic stabilization systems and measures, service staffs, boards and sub-boards required, in accordance with state and federal plans and directions subject to approval of the Council/Mayor.
(3) The Director shall prepare a comprehensive emergency plan for the emergency preparedness of the city including municipal and unincorporated areas and shall present the plan to the Council/Mayor for its approval. When the Council/Mayor has approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all city agencies and all emergency preparedness forces of the city to perform the duties and functions assigned by the plan as approved. The plan may be modified in like manner from time to time. The Director shall coordinate the emergency management activities of the city to the end that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the emergency plan of the federal government and the state and correlated with emergency plans of other political subdivisions within the state.
(4) In accordance with the state and county emergency plan, the Director shall institute training programs, public information programs and conduct practice warning alerts and emergency exercises as may be necessary to assure prompt and effective operation of the city emergency plan when a disaster occurs.
(5) The Director shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the city to the maximum extent practicable. The officers and personnel of all such departments and agencies shall, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate with and extend the services and facilities to the City Emergency Management organization and to the Governor upon request. The head of each department or agency, in cooperation with the Director, shall be responsible for the planning and programming of the emergency activities as will involve the utilization of the facilities of the department or agency.
(6) The Director shall, in cooperation with existing city departments and agencies affected, assist in the organizing, recruiting and training of the emergency management personnel that may be required on a volunteer basis to carry out the emergency plans of the city and state. To the extent that the emergency personnel recruited to augment a regular city department or agency for emergencies shall be assigned to the departments or agencies and shall be under the administration and control of the department or agency.
(7) Consistent with the state emergency services law, the director shall coordinate the activity of municipal emergency management organizations within the city and assist in establishing and conducting training programs as required to assure emergency operational capability in the several services (M.S. Ch. 12, § 12.25, as it may be amended from time to time).
(8) The Director shall carry out all orders, rules and regulations issued by the Governor with reference to emergency management.
(9) The Director shall act as principal aide and advisor to the city official responsible for direction and control of all city emergency operations during an emergency. The Director's main responsibility is to assure coordination among the operating departments, non-governmental groups, and with higher and adjacent governments.
(10) The Director shall prepare and submit reports on emergency preparedness activities as may be requested by the City Council/Mayor.
(Ord. 11-07, passed 9-24-2007)