There are created the offices of Director of Emergency Services and Emergency Services Coordinator. The City Administrator shall be the Director of Emergency Services and shall appoint the Emergency Services Coordinator. The Director is empowered:
(A) To request the City Council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency and the termination thereof, if the City Council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the City Council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Director, the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter, or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect;
(B) To request the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when, in the opinion of the Director, the resources of the area or region are inadequate to cope with the emergency;
(C) To control and direct the effort of the Emergency Services Organization of the city for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
(D) To direct coordination and cooperation between the divisions, services, and staff of the Emergency Services Organization of the city and to resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;
(E) To represent the Emergency Services Organization of the city in all dealings with public or private agencies pertaining to emergency services; and
(F) To assist the Emergency Services Coordinator in the development of the plans and organization of the emergency services program and assign additional duties to the Emergency Services Coordinator.
('61 Code, § 3-2.04) (Ord. 182 C.S., passed 3-6-72; Am. Ord. 306 C.S., passed 10-18-78)