A. The director is empowered to:
1. Request the
City Council
to proclaim the existence of threatened existence of a “local emergency” 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.
The
City Council
shall review, at least every fourteen days until such local emergency is terminated, the need for continuing the local emergency and shall proclaim the termination of such local emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant;
2. Request the Governor to proclaim a “state of emergency” when, in the opinion of the director, the locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency;
3. Control and direct the effort-of the emergency organization of this city for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
4. Direct cooperation between the coordination of services and staff of the emergency organization of the city, and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;
5. Represent this city in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined in Section 2.32.020;
6. In the event of the proclamation of a “local emergency” as provided in subsection A(l) of this section, the proclamation of a “state of emergency” by the Governor or the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence of a “state of war emergency,” the director is empowered:
a. To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by the
City Council
,
b. To obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property to bind the city for the fair value thereof and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use,
c. To require emergency services of any city officer or employee and, in the event of the proclamation of a “state of emergency” in the county in which the city is located or the existence of a “state of war emergency,” to command the aid of as many citizens of this community as he or she deems necessary in the execution of his or her duties. Such persons shall be entitled to all privileges, benefits, and immunities as are provided by state law for registered disaster service workers,
d. To requisition necessary personnel or material of any city department or agency, and
e. To execute all of his or her ordinary power as City Manager, all of the special powers conferred upon him or her by this chapter or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant to this chapter adopted by the
City Council
, all powers conferred upon him or her by any statute, by any agreement approved by the
City Council
, and by any other lawful authority. (Ord. 321 § 6(A), 1973).