The powers and duties of the emergency management and preparedness director shall
include an ongoing survey of actual or potential major hazards which threaten life
and property within the city; and an ongoing program of identifying and requiring
or recommending the implementation of measures which would tend to prevent the occurrence
or reduce the impact of such hazards if a disaster did occur. As part of his responsibility
in hazard mitigation, the director shall supervise the development of an emergency
management and preparedness plan for the city and shall recommend that plan for adoption
by the city council, along with any and all mutual aid plans and agreements which
are deemed essential for the implementation of such emergency management and preparedness
plan. The director shall have the authority to declare a state of disaster, but such
action shall be subject to confirmation by the city council at its next meeting. The
assistant emergency management and preparedness director and the emergency management
and preparedness coordinator jointly shall have the authority to declare a state of
disaster, but such action shall be subject to confirmation by the city council at
its next meeting. The duties of the director shall also include the causing of a survey
of the availability of existing personnel, equipment, supplies and services that could
be used during a disaster, as provided for in this article, as well as a continuing
study of the need for amendments and improvements in the emergency management and
preparedness plan.
