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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20090105 - VI-11VI -11 HASTINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT MICHAEL T. SCHUTT, FIRE & EMS DIRECTOR 115 hest 5`~ Street Hastings, MN 55033-1815 Business Office X651 } 480-6150 Fax X651 } 480-6170 TO: Honorable Mayor Hicks and City Council Membe FROM: Michael T. Schutt, Fire and EMS Director DATE: December 31, 2008 SUBJECT: Proposed City Ordinance that Governs Emergency Management Description: A proposed ordinance that governs the activities of the City of Hastings' Emergency Management Team. Background: Dated back to the 1970's, the city has maintained an emergency manager, commonly referred to as a civil defense directorlcoordinator. 1n the 1990's, the city took on more of a team concept approach to the direction of emergency management. Currently, the emergency management team consists of: City Administrator Dave Osberg Police Chief Mike McMenomy Fire and EMS Director Mike Schutt Police Lieutenant Joe Kegley Assistant Fire and EMS Director John Townsend Community Relations Specialist Shannon Rausch In an effort to comply with state razes and grant funding regulations, it is recommended that cities have an ordinance in place that governs the activities of the emergency management team. Requested. _ ctron Staff is recommending approving a first reading of a city ordinance that governs emergency management and ordering a second reading and a public hearing to be scheduled at the January 20, 2009, city council meeting. I will be in attendance at the January 5, 2009, city council meeting, rf you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 65-775-5547 anytime. FIRE SUPPRESSION - FIRE EDUCATION - FIRE PREVENTION - AMBULANCE SERVICE Emer~ency Management ordinance .~ , „ Section 1. Policy and Purpose Subdivision 1. Because of the existing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destruction resulting from dire, flood, tornado, blizzard, destructive winds or other natural causes, or from sabotage, hostile action, or from hazardous material mishaps of catastrophic measure; and in order to ensure that preparations of the City of Hastings will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally, to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health, and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the City of Hastings, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary: ~a} To establish a City of Hastings emergency management organization responsible for the City of Hastings planning and preparation for emergency government operations in time of disasters. (b} To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during emergencies and disasters. (c} To provide for the rendering of mutual aid between the City of Hastings and other political subdivisions of this state and of other states with respect to the carrying out of emergency preparedness functions. ~d} To comply with provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 12, Section 12.25, which requires that each political subdivision of Minnesota shall establish a local organization for emergency management. Section 2. Definitions Subdivision ~. "Emergency Management" means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than fiunctions 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, ~ire~ighting services, police services, emergency medical services, engineering, warning services, communications, radiological, and chemical, evacuation, 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 of the foregoing functions. Emergency management includes those activities sometimes referred to as "Civil Defense" functions. Subdivision 2. "Disaster" means a situation which creates an immediate and serious impairment to the health and safety of any person, or a situation which has resulted in or is likely to result in catastrophic loss to property, and for which traditional sources of relief and assistance within the affected area are unable to repair or prevent the injury or loss. Subdivision . "Emergency" means an unforeseen combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action to prevent from developing or occurring, Subdivision 4. "Emergency Management Farces" means the total personnel resources engaged incounty-level/city-level emergency management functions in accordance with the provisions of this resolution or any rule or order thereunder. This includes personnel from the City of Hastings departments, authorized volunteers, and private organizations and agencies. Subdivision_.5, "Emergency Management Grganization" means the staff element responsible for coordinating county-level/city=level planning and preparation for disaster response. This organization provides City of Hastings liaison and coordination with federal, state, and local jurisdictions relative to disaster preparedness activities and assures implementation of federal and state program requirements. Section 3. Establishment of an Emergency 1Vlanagement Organization Subdivision ~. There is hereby created with the City of Hastings government an emergency management organization that shall be under the supervision and control of the city emergency management team, hereinafter called the Emergency Management Team. The emergency management team shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of the emergency preparedness organization, subject to the direction and control of the city council. Subdivision 2. The emergency management team shall prepare a comprehensive emergency plan for the emergency preparedness of the City of Hastings including municipal and unincorporated areas and shall present such plan to the council and mayor for its approval. when the council and mayor have approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all City of Hastings agencies and all emergency preparedness forces of the City of Hastings 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 emergency management team shall coordinate the emergency management activities of the City of Hastings to the end that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the emergency plan of the State/Federal Government and the State and correlated with emergency plans of other political subdivisions within the State. Subdivision ~. The emergency management team shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the county to the maximum extent practicable. The officers and personnel of all such departments and agencies shall be, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate with and extend such services and facilities to the City of Hastings Emergency Management Team and to the Governor upon request. The head of each department or agency in cooperation with the emergency management team 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. Subdivision 4. The emergency management team shall, in cooperation with existing City of Hastings 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 of Hastings and state. To the extent that such emergency personnel are recruited to augment a regular City of Hastings 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. Subdivision ~. Consistent with the state emergency services law, the emergency management team shall coordinate the activity of municipal emergency management organizations within the county and assist in establishing and conducting training programs as required to assure emergency operational capability in the several services Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 12, Sec. 12.25}. Subdivision 6. The emergency management team shall carry out all orders, rules and regulations issued by the Governor with reference to emergency management. Subdivision 7. The emergency management team shall act as principal aide and advisor to the City of Hastings official responsible for direction and control of all City of Hastings 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 adj acent governments. Section 5. Local Emergencies Subdivision ~. A local emergency may be declared only by the Mayor or their legal successors. It shall not be continued for a period in excess of three days except by or with the consent of the city council. Any order, 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. Subdivision 2. A declaration of a local emergency shall invoke necessary portions of the response and recovery aspects of applicable local orinter- jurisdictional disaster plans, and may authorize aid and assistance thereunder. Subdivision . No jurisdictional agency or official may declare a local emergency unless expressly authorised by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an inter jurisdictional disaster agency shall provide aid and services in accordance with the agreement under which it functions. Section ~. Emergency Management A Governmental Function All functions thereunder and all other activities relating to emergency management are hereby declared to be governmental functions. The provisions of this section shall not affect the right of any person to receive benefits to which he/she would otherwise be entitled under this resolution or under the worker's compensation law, or under any pension law, nor the right of any such person to receive any benefits or compensation under any act of Congress.