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The Information Technology Division shall be under and subject to the control of the Information Technology Agency of the City of Los Angeles. The Chief of this division shall be the General Manager of the Agency. The chief shall develop plans for the division’s activities and those of the sections comprising the division. The Information Technology Division is comprised of the following sections: Communications, Information Processing, and Telecommunications.
(a) Communications Section. The head of the Communications Section shall develop plans for and provide, restore and maintain emergency communications services for the Council-controlled department/offices of the City. The head of the section shall also maintain liaison with other City departments providing their own communications services, volunteer radio emergency services and agencies providing public communications services to the City and its citizens. During the period of a local emergency, the section head shall have the power and duty to direct such City and volunteer communications personnel as may be necessary to perform the duties under this chapter. The head of the section shall design, install, maintain and/or restore City data communications networks and City “in facility” telephone networks, and provide related voice communications services (e.g., pagers, voice mail, cellular telephones and command post telephone support).
(b) Information Processing Section. The head of the section shall define, maintain and/or restore critical City computer applications and systems, manage the maintenance and retrieval of data and materials stored at the City's computer recovery site and off-site storage location, and coordinate the repair or replacement of personal computers and related equipment.
(c) Telecommunications Section. The head of the Telecommunications Section shall operate and/or restore the government access cable channel.
(d) 3-1-1 Center. The head of the 3-1-1 center shall develop plans for and provide 3-1-1 services for the City.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 176,905, Eff. 9-21-05.
There is hereby established in the City Treasury an Emergency Operations Fund. Into it shall be deposited money provided by the City in the annual budget or at other time for the purposes of this chapter, and, as directed by the City Council, any additional money the City receives for these purposes from other sources. Money in the Emergency Operations Fund shall be expended by the General Manager of the Emergency Management Department (Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Organization), subject to the approval of the Chairperson of the Emergency Operations Board, or the Chairperson’s designated representative. Money in the Fund received by the City from other sources shall be regarded as a Trust Fund and shall not be transferred to the Reserve Fund as provided in Charter Section 344.
SECTION HISTORY
Article and Section added by Ord. No. 156,955, Eff. 9-4-82.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,289, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper 7-1-00; Ord. No. 178,916, Eff. 8-5-07; Ord. No. 179,421, Eff. 1-19-08.
(a) There is hereby created within the Treasury of the City of Los Angeles a special trust fund known as the “Disaster Assistance Trust Fund,” hereinafter referred to in this article as the “Fund.”
(b) All monies received by the City for emergency and disaster response and recovery costs under the public assistance provisions of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, now entitled The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, (Public Law 93-288), as amended; the Natural Disaster Assistance Act (Chapter 7.5, Division 1, Title 2 of the California Government Code), as amended; Chapter 3X of the 1987-88 First Extraordinary Session of the California Legislature; and similar grant programs when specifically directed by the City Council, shall be transferred from the Grant Receipts Fund into the Fund for transfer or expenditure for the purposes set forth in Subsection (d) of this section.
(c) All interest or other earnings attributable to money in each account in the Fund shall be credited to that particular account.
(d) No transfer or expenditure shall be made from the Fund except for the purposes authorized by, and subject to all of the provisions of, the applicable grant authority among the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, now entitled The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, (Public Law 93-288), as amended; the Natural Disaster Assistance Act (Chapter 7.5, Division 1, Title 2 of the California Government Code), as amended; Chapter 3X of the 1987-88 First Extraordinary Session of the California Legislature; other similar grant programs the monies from which are deposited into the Fund pursuant to City Council direction; and applicable federal and state laws, rules, regulations, instructions, procedures and requirements.
(e) The Fund shall be administered, and transfers, to the extent permitted by the Charter, and expenditures therefrom shall be authorized, by the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services. No transfer or expenditure shall be made from the Fund except for the purposes set forth in Subsection (d) of this section.
(f) All City officers and employees who have any control over the investment, transfer or expenditure of monies in the Fund shall provide to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the California Office of Emergency Services, the United States Inspector General, the California State Controller, auditors of the City’s grants pursuant to the Single Audit Act, their representatives, designees or replacements, or others having audit authority with respect to the specific grant program, access to and the right to examine such books, papers, documents or records as they may require for the purpose of reviewing compliance with the terms and conditions of the grant program under which the monies were obtained.
(g) The monies paid into the Fund shall remain in the Fund until transferred or expended for the purposes set forth in Subsection (d) of this section. Unencumbered funds remaining in the Fund shall not revert to the Reserve Fund at the end of a fiscal year.
(h) The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services shall inform the Controller of all special terms and conditions placed upon the use of monies deposited into the Fund. The Controller shall establish a separate account within the Fund for each receipt which is so limited. No money shall be expended from any account in the Fund except in satisfaction of and in compliance with those special terms and conditions, if any, under which that money was accepted. Any request by the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services for a transfer or an expenditure of money from any such special account shall be accompanied by information to the Controller that the transfer or expenditure of said money does not breach or violate the special terms and conditions under which the money was received and placed into the special account.
(i) The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services and the Controller are authorized to establish appropriate procedures to carry out the provisions of this section.
(j) The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services shall report to the City Council regarding the Fund on an annual basis, within 90 days after the close of the City’s fiscal year, or as requested by the City Council following a declared emergency or disaster. Such report shall identify all receipts into, and all transfers and expenditures out of, the Fund, as well as the purposes for which the transfers and expenditures were made.
SECTION HISTORY
Article 9.6 and Section added by Ord. No. 166,519, Eff. 1-24-91.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,289, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper 7-1-00.
Each officer, board, department, and employee of the City shall render all possible assistance to the Mayor, the Board, and the Deputy Director in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, including but not limited to planning, training, and/or response to emergency incidents. While engaged in emergency services, officers and employees of the City shall be deemed to be engaged in their regular duties.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 97,600.
Amended by: Ord. No. 126,966; Ord. No. 153,772, Eff. 6-18-80; In Entirety, Ord. No. 165,083, Eff. 9-4-89.
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