(A) The Coordinator, with the consent of the Mayor and City Council, shall represent the city on any federal, state, regional or local organization or conference for emergency management.
(B) The Coordinator shall prepare an all-hazards, emergency-operations plan for the delivery of emergency services for the city, and shall present this plan to the City Council for its action. The plan may be modified in like manner from time to time. The plan shall be coordinated with such similar plans of the county and neighboring municipalities. When the City Council has approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all city agencies and all city emergency preparedness forces to perform the duties and functions assigned by the plan as approved.
(C) The Coordinator shall develop mutual aid agreements with other political subdivisions for reciprocal emergency services, and shall present these agreements to the Council for its action. Such arrangements shall be consistent with the duties of the Emergency Management Department to render assistance in accordance with the provisions of such mutual aid arrangements.
(D) The Coordinator may recommend the procurement of supplies and equipment for the preparation of training programs and public information programs, and shall conduct practice, drills and other training exercises that may be necessary to fully train and equip emergency management personnel for their duties in time of need.
(E) The Coordinator may survey the training and education of the work force of the city, the industries, resources and facilities of the city in order to ascertain their capability to function in time of emergency.
(F) The Coordinator shall institute such training programs, public information programs and conduct practice warning alerts and emergency exercises as may be necessary to assure prompt and effective operation of the city’s emergency operations plan when a disaster occurs.
(G) The Coordinator shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the city to the maximum extent practicable. To the maximum extent practicable, the officers and personnel of all such departments and agencies shall cooperate with and extend such services and facilities to the city emergency management organization and to the Governor upon request. The head of each department or agency, in cooperation with the Coordinator, shall be responsible for the planning and programming of such emergency activities as will involve the utilization of the facilities of that department or agency.
(H) The Coordinator shall cooperate with federal, state and local officials in matters pertaining to the training, equipping and functioning of efforts and emergency of every kind.
(I) The Coordinator shall act as principal aide and advisor to the city officials responsible for direction and control of all city emergency operations during an emergency. The Coordinator’s main responsibility is to assure coordination among the operating departments, non-governmental groups, and with higher and adjacent governments. Responsibilities of the Coordinator in meeting the critical emergency functions of the city are further outlined in the city’s emergency operations plan (EOP).
(J) As directed in the city’s emergency operations plan, the Coordinator shall provide and equip in the city an emergency operations center (EOC), and if necessary, an auxiliary EOC, to be used during an emergency as headquarters for the direction and coordination of emergency services. The Director shall arrange for installation at the EOC of communication systems with heads of emergency services, the station and operating units of municipal services and other agencies concerned with emergency services, and for communications with other communities and control centers within the surrounding area, and with the federal and state agencies concerned.
(K) The Coordinator shall use the services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments, offices, personnel and agencies of the city to the maximum extent practicable, and all city employees are directed to cooperate with the Director in carrying out emergency management functions,
(L) The Coordinator shall report to the City Council annually, and as otherwise required by the Council, on the operation of the Emergency Management Department.
(Am. Ord. passed 11-13-2018)