A Department of Emergency Management is hereby created utilizing to the fullest extent personnel and facilities of existing city departments and agencies. The City Manager shall be responsible for its organization, administration, and operation. The organization shall consist of the following:
(A) A Department of Emergency Management within the executive department of the city government. There shall be an executive head of the Department of Emergency Management, appointed in the manner provided in the Charter for the appointment of the majority of administrative officials specifically enumerated in the Charter, who shall be known as the Director of Emergency Management, and such assistants, clerical help, other employees and emergency management volunteers as are deemed necessary to the proper functioning of the organization.
(B) Five designees with responsibility for financial services, law enforcement, fire control, engineering services, and health and medical services, appointed by the City Manager. These shall, so far as possible, be additional duty assignments to existing personnel, and it is the intent of this chapter that emergency management and disaster assignments shall be as nearly consistent with normal duty assignment as possible.
(C) The employees, equipment, and facilities of all city departments, and agencies suitable for, or adaptable to emergency management and designated by the City Manager to participate in the emergency management activity.
(D) Emergency management volunteers, including persons and private agencies or governmental units offering services to the organization.
Cross-reference:
Appointment of city officials, see Charter Art. III, § 2.