(A) There is hereby created the Office of Emergency Services (OES). The director of the OES shall be the city manager. The assistant director shall be the designated assistant city manager. The deputy director shall be the fire chief. An emergency services manager shall be appointed by the deputy director.
(B) The director shall:
(1) Develop and recommend for adoption by the city council, emergency and mutual aid plans and agreements, and such ordinances and resolutions and rules and regulations as are necessary to implement such plans and agreements. Such plans, agreements, ordinances and resolutions shall provide, to the extent possible, for the effective mobilization of the resources of the city, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency, a state of emergency or a state of war emergency;
(2) If the city council is in session, request the city council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency;
(3) If the city council is not in session, proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency. A local emergency proclaimed by the director shall not remain in effect for more than seven days unless ratified by the city council;
(4) If the city council is not in session, request the governor to proclaim a state of emergency when, in the opinion of the director, locally available resources are inadequate to cope with an emergency; and
(5) Control and direct the emergency services of the city and resolve questions of authority and responsibility arising therefrom.
(C) In the event of the proclamation of a local emergency, a state of emergency or the proclamation or existence of a state of war emergency, the director shall:
(1) Promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property and, at the earliest practicable time, request the city council to ratify such orders and regulations;
(2) Obtain supplies, equipment and other property needed for the protection of life and property, and bind the city for the fair value thereof, and, if required immediately, commandeer the same for public use;
(3) Require emergency services of any city officer or employee;
(4) Requisition necessary personnel or material of any city program or agency; and
(5) Exercise his/her ordinary powers as city manager, the special powers conferred on him/her by this chapter or by resolution or emergency plan adopted by the city council, and powers conferred on him/her by statute, by any agreement approved by the city council, and by any other lawful authority.
(D) In the event of an emergency, the director may repair or replace a public facility, take any directly related and immediate action required by that emergency, and procure the necessary equipment, services and supplies for those purposes, without giving notice for bids to let contracts. If the director orders any such action, the director shall report to the city council, at its next meeting, the reasons justifying why the emergency did not or will not permit a delay resulting from a competitive solicitation for bids, and why the action was or is necessary to respond to the emergency.
(E) The assistant director shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director, and shall be acting director if the director is unavailable during an emergency.
(F) The deputy director shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director, will oversee the emergency management program, and shall be acting director if the director and assistant director are unavailable during an emergency.
(G) The emergency services manager shall, under the supervision of the deputy director, develop emergency plans and manage the emergency management programs of the city.
(`64 Code, Sec. 10-3) (Ord. No. 2429, 2916, 2942)