HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 4324Resolution Nlo. 4324
CITY OF SAN RAFAE L
OPERATIONAL AREA JOINT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS Article 9 of the California Emergency Services Act designates
each county area as an "Operational Area" and authorizes the local formation of
an emergency organization representative of the local political subdivision therein;
and
WHEREAS the County of Marin is authorized a County Emergency Services
Organization and a Marin Operational Area which provides for use of personnel and
resources of the county and cities during an ernergency; and
WHEREAS the County of Marin and the incorporated cities within said county
have entered into the California Mutual Aid Agreement which required the develop-
ment of county wide and local mutual aid plans to become operative in tirrie of a
Local Emergency, State of Emergency and/or a State of War Emergency; and
WHEREAS the State of Californ is has organized the State into Mutual Aid
Regions for the more effective application, administration and coordination of mutual
aid and other emergency -related activities in the event of a State of Emergency or
State of War Emergency; and
WHEREAS the County of Marin hereinafter referred to as the County, and
the incorporated cities within the County signatory hereto, hereinafter referred to
as the City or Cities as required by the context, are desirous of establishing a
unified emergency services organization hereby recognized as the County of Marin
and Marin Operational Area Emergency Services Organization, for the purpose of
preparing mutual plans for the preservation and safety of life- and property and rnak-
ing provisions for the execution of those plans in the event of a State of War Emer-
gency Act of 1970, and as augmented by the County of Marin and Marin Operational
Area Emergency Plan, the provisions of which include mutual assistance in the event
of a national disaster; and
WHEREAS because disasters know no political boundaries, rand because a
unified organization provides a basis for conducting County wide programs designed
to provide the highest level of readiness possible for all the citizens of this County,
and their governments in the event of a wear -caused disaster or a significant nataral
disaster; and
WHEREAS the governing bodies of the Cities and the Count-,, have concern
for, and recognize their respective responsibilities toward Uhe direction of emergency
operations in their respective political jurisdictions, and also recognize the need
for a Coordinator for the unified organization who can provide the Directors of
Emergency Services of each political jurisdiction with a central point ',-or coordin-
ation and control of mutual aid and the use of county wide emergency services and
resources; and
WHEREAS the County of Marin and the incorporated cities thereir, do hereby
agree that the emergency organizations of the County and the Cities may be coordin-
ated by the Marin Operational Area Coordinator for that period during which a
Local Emergency, State of Emergency, or a State of War Ernergency exists; thee,
in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, do mutually resolve as
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I A. The County will perform the following services:
1 . Advise and assist each City in the preparation and development
of an emergency plan for that city.
2. Develop and maintain on a current basis the County of Marin
and Marin Operational Area Emergency Services Plan which shall
provide for the needs of the Cities and of the unincorporated areas
of the County and which, in addition, will take into account and be
-coordinated with the needs of the Cities in the event of a major
natural disaster.
3. Advise and assist the Cities with the training of public employees
through the city's emergency organization.
4. Provide an operational area emergency services program as con-
templated by the emergency plan, which will include but not be
limited to the following: -
a) Direction and Control, including Emergency Intelligence
and Public Information;
b) Communications and Warning:
c) Health and Medical, including radiological safety and Coroner
services;
d) Law Enforcement and Traffic Control;
e) Fire and Rescue;
f) Engineering (Construction and Housing);
g) Shelter and Welfare;
h) Utilities;
Q Manpower;
j) Supply and Procurement;
k) Industrial Production;
1) Economic Stabilization;
m) Petroleum; and
n) Transporation
B. The Cities shall:
1 . By being signatories hereto, and pursuant to the passing of the
ordinance establishing their respective emergency organizations
as required by the California Emergency Services Act of 1970,
become members of the County of Marin and Marin Operational
Area Emergency Services Organization.
2. Become parties to such mutual aid agreements as shall be deemed
necessary by the County of Marin and Marin Operational Area
Emergency Disaster Council established hereby, and to be com-
prised of the following:
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a) The Area Coordinator -Chairman;
b) One representative frorn each City's Emergency Services
Organization's Disaster Council;
c) One representative from the unincorporated areas of the
County, to be appointed by the County Board of Supervisors;
d) One representative from the County of Marin Emergency
Services Organization Disaster Council, to be appointed
by the Board of Supervisors.
3. Accept primary responsibility for the development with that
city of an emergency plan for its o%,%,n jurisdiction which shall
be acceptable to and approved by the State of California Office
of Emergency Set -vices and/or the State Emergency Services
Council, when submitted to those agencies as annexes integral
to the County of Marin and Marin Operational Area Emergency Plan.
4. Delegate to the Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors,
who by mutual agreement of both parties is designated hereby
and recognized as the County of Marin and Marin Operational
Area Coordinator, whatever authority it is lawful for the Cities
to delegate when such delegation shall be deemed necessary by
the Coordinator. This delegation of authority shall be restricted
to whatever expenditure of City funds and use of City personnel,
equipment, and supplies are made available by the Cities for
emergency put -poses during a Local Er-nergency, State of Emer-
gency, or State of War Emergency condition as contemplated by
the State of California Emergency Services Act of 1970.
C. In consideration of these mutual promises, it is hereby mutually agreed:
1. That the County will pay the cost of establishing and maintaining
the County of Marin and Marin Operational Area Office of Emer-
gency Services staffed by at least one full-time County employee
whose title will be Coordinator of Emergency Services, and
clerical support.
2. The Coordinator of Emergency Services when appointed pursuant
to this authority is hereby empowered to coordinate the efforts of
the parties to this agreement for the accomplishment of its pur-
poses.
3. The County, and all Cities signatory hereto hereby adopt the
County of Marin and Marin Operational Area Emergency Plan
as the single, county wide, composite war or peacetime emer-
gency plan, to be in effect in emergencies other than war,
where the emergencies require Operational Area coordination.
D. This resolution shall become effective as to each jurisdiction on the
date the governing bodies of each jurisdiction authorize the execution
of this document.
E. This agreement may be terminated as to any of the parties by written
notice given by such party to all the other parties at least twenty days
prior to the commencement of the fiscal year in which it is to take
effect. For this purpose the fiscal year is defined as July 1st, of a
calendar year through June 30th of the succecding calendar year.
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I, MARION A. GRADY, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, California
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly intro -
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duced and adopted at an adjourned / meeting of the Council of said City held
on the 8th day of November 197 2 by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: COUNCILWiEN: Jensen, Miskimen, Mulryan and Mayor Bettini
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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MARION A GRADY
Clerk of the City of San Rafael
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