The Personnel and Recruitment Division shall be under and subject to the control of the Personnel Department of the City of Los Angeles. The chief of this division shall be the General Manager of the Department. The chief shall maintain records of all personnel of the Emergency Operations Organization. This division shall be the recruiting center for the Organization, and shall establish a plan for the use of qualified City personnel by any of the divisions requiring additional City forces during a local emergency. The chiefs of all other divisions shall render such services as are requested by the chief of this division in the recruitment of personnel for the various divisions.
The chief of this division shall develop, with the assistance of the Emergency Operations Office, a program for the use of volunteers during a local emergency. The program shall contain procedures for:
(1) the recruitment of volunteer forces through the media
(2) the registration of volunteers as disaster workers in the State Workers Compensation program;
(3) the dispatching of volunteers at disaster or local emergency command posts or other locations;
(4) the establishing of liaison with Council offices for the dispatching of volunteers to assist on private property; and
(5) the development of such other procedures necessary to implement this section.
All volunteer activities shall be coordinated by the Personnel Division through the Emergency Operations Center during a local emergency.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 97,600.
Amended by: Ord. No. 153,772, Eff. 6-18-80; In Entirety, Ord. No. 165,083, Eff. 9-4-89.