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98-012 ORDORDINANCE 98- 12 CITY OF ELK RIVER AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELK RIVER AMENDING CHAPTER 208 (CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY) OF THE CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES The City Council and the City of Elk River does hereby ordain as follows: Section 1. That Chapter 208 of the City of Elk River Code of Ordinances shall be amended by deleting the existing chapter and substituting the following: SECTION 208 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 208.00 - POLICY AND PURPOSE Because of the possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destruction resulting from fire, flood, tornado, blizzard, destructive winds, or other natural causes, or from sabotage, hostile action, or from hazardous material accidents of catastrophic measure; and in order to ensure that preparations of the City will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally, to provide for the common defense and to protect public peace, health, and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the City, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary. 1. To establish a City emergency management organization responsible for City planning and preparation for emergency government operations in time of disasters. 2. To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during emergencies and disasters. 3. To provide for the rendering of mutual aid between the City and other political subdivisions of this State and of other states with respect to the carrying out of emergency preparedness functions. 4. To comply with Minnesota Statutes Section 12.25, which requires that each political subdivision of Minnesota shall establish a local organization for emergency management. 208.02 - DEFINITIONS For purposes of this ordinance, the following words and phrases have the meaning given them in this Section. DISASTER: means a situation which creates actual or imminent serious threat to the health and safety of any person, or a situation which has resulted, or is likely to result in, catastrophic loss to property or the environment, and for which traditional sources of relief and assistance within the affected area are unable to repair or prevent the injury or loss. EMERGENCY: means an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action to prevent a disaster from developing or occurring. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: means the preparation for and the carrying out of emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize, and repair injury and damage resulting from disasters caused by fire, flood, tornado, and other acts of nature, or from sabotage, hostile action, or from industrial hazardous material mishaps. These functions include, without limitation, fire fighting services, police services, emergency medical services, rescue services, engineering, warning services, communications, radiological, chemical and other special weapons defense, evacuation of persons from stricken areas, emergency human services, congregate care, emergency transportation, existing or properly assigned functions of plant protection, temporary restoration of public utility services, and other functions related to civil protection, together with all other activities necessary or incidental for carrying out the foregoing functions. Emergency management'includes those activities sometimes referred to as "Civil Defense" functions. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FORCES: means the total personnel resources engaged in City emergency management functions in accordance with the provisions of this resolution or any rule or order thereunder. This includes personnel from City departments, authorized volunteers, and private organizations and agencies. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: means the City organization responsible for coordinating City planning and preparation for emergency response established pursuant to Section 208.04 below. This organization provides City liaison and coordination with federal, state, and other local jurisdictions relative to emergency preparedness activities and assures implementation of federal and state program requirements. 208.04 - ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 12.25, there is hereby created within the City an Emergency Management Organization that shall be under the supervision and control of the Emergency Management Director, hereinafter called the "Director." The Director shall be appointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the City Council for an indefinite term and may be removed by the City Council at any time. The Director shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of the Emergency Management Organization, subject to the direction and control of the City Council. 208.06 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR 1. Representation and Mutual Aid Agreements. The Director, with the consent of the Council, shall represent the City at any regional or State conference for emergency management. The Director shall develop proposed mutual aid agreements with other political subdivisions of the State for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance in an emergency too great to be dealt with unassisted, and shall present such agreements to the Council for its action. Such arrangements shall be consistent with the State Emergency Plan. 2. Resource Surveys. The Director shall make studies and surveys of the manpower, industries, resources, and facilities of the City as deemed necessary to determine their adequacy for emergency management and to plan for their most efficient use in time of an emergency. The Director shall establish the economic stabilization systems and measures, service staffs, boards and sub-boards required, in accordance with state and federal plans and directions subject to approval of the Council. 3. Emergency Plan. The Director shall prepare a comprehensive Emergency Plan for the emergency preparedness of the City and shall present such plan to the Council for.its approval. When the Council has approved the Plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all City agencies and emergency preparedness forces of the City to perform the duties and functions assigned by the Plan as approved. The Plan may be modified in like manner from time to time. The Director shall coordinate the emergency management activities of the City to the end that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the emergency plans of the federal and state governments and correlated with emergency plans of other political subdivisions within the State. 4. Training Programs. In accordance with the State and County Emergency Plan, the Director shall institute such training programs, pubic information programs, and conduct practice warning alerts and emergency exercises as may be necessary to assure prompt and effective operation of the City Emergency Plan when an emergency occurs. 5. Duties of City Personnel: The Director shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the City to the maximum extent practicable. The personnel of all such departments and agencies shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 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 Director shall be responsible for the planning and programming of such emergency activities as will involve the utilization of the facilities of the department or agency. 6. Volunteer Personnel: The Director shall, in cooperation with existing City departments and agencies affected, assist in the organizing, recruiting, and training of such emergency management personnel, that may be required on a volunteer basis to carry out the emergency plans of the City and State. To the extent that such emergency personnel are recruited to augment a regular City department or agency for emergencies, they shall be assigned to such departments or agencies and shall be under the administration and control of said department or agency. The Director may dismiss any emergency management volunteer at any time and require such person to surrender any equipment and identification furnished by the Director. 7. Coordination: Consistent with the State emergency management laws, the Director shall coordinate the activity of emergency management organizations within the City and assist in establishing and conducting training programs as required to ensure emergency operational capability in the several services. 8. Governor's Orders. The Director shall carry out al orders, rules, and regulations issued by the Governor with reference to emergency management. 9. Aide and Advisor. The Director shall act as principal aide and advisor to the City official 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 federal, state, county, and adjacent governments. 10. Reports. The Director shall prepare and submit such reports on emergency preparedness activities as may be requested by the Mayor and Council. 208.08 - LOCAL EMERGENCIES 1. Procedure. A local emergency may be declared only by the Mayor or his or her legal successors. It shall not be continued for a period in excess of three (3) days except by or with the consent of the Council. Any order, procedure, or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local emergency shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed promptly by the City Clerk. 2. Coordination with Emergency Plan. A declaration of a local emergency shall invoke necessary portions of the response and recovery aspects of the Emergency Plan and may authorize aid and assistance thereunder. 3. Interjurisdictional Agency. No interjurisdictional agency or official may declare a local emergency unless expressly authorized by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an interjurisdictional disaster agency shall provide aid and services in accordance with the agreement under which if fluctuates. 208.10 - EMERGENCY CONTRACTING AND OTHER POWERS Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 12.37, during a declared emergency or disaster the Council, notwithstanding any statutory provision to the contrary, may enter into contracts and incur obligations necessary to combat such disaster by protecting the health and safety of persons and property and providing emergency assistance to the victims of such disaster. The Council may exercise such powers in the light of the exigencies of the disaster without compliance with the time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law pertaining to the performance of public work, entering into contracts, incurring obligations, rental of equipment, employment of temporary workers, purchase of supplies and materials, limitations upon tax levies, and the appropriation and expenditure of public funds including, but not limited to, publication of ordinances and resolutions, publication of calls for bids, provisions of personnel laws and rules, provisions relating to low bids, and requirements for budgets. 208.12 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL Personnel employed or associated with the City's Emergency Management Organization must comply with Minnesota Statutes Section 12.43. 208.14 - POLITICAL ACTIVITIES The Emergency Management Organization shall not participate in any form of political activity, nor shall it be employed directly or indirectly for political purposes, nor shall it be employed in a labor dispute. Section 2. That this Section shall take effect upon approval by the City Council and pubhcation as required by law. Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Elk River this /I~en~ A. Duitsman, Mayor Sandra A. Peine, City Clerk Affid~avit of Publication --' . -.,' - ...---.--.....------.-- STATE OF MINNESOTA ) )ss. COUNTY OF SHERBURNE) being duly sworn n oath says that helshe is the publisher or authorized agent and employee of the publisher of the newspa- per known as The Elk River Star News, and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below: (A) The newspaper has complied with all the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A02, 331A07, and other applicable laws, as amended. D" (l.' . _ C) (B) The printed ~ q fj-Id-. which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published once each week, for I ~_ cessive weeks; it was first published on 9r,esday, the I:J:..- day of ~ . 19 and was thereafter printed and pu lished on every Wednesday to and including Wednesd"ay, the _ day of .19_; and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice. a b c de fghij kl mn 0 p q r stu v wxyz ~: 1h~~ . 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