07-28-2025 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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T M N § 5.04.120 ORONO CODE to preserve the lives and property of the people of Sec. 5.04.140. Powers and duties of the this city, it is hereby found and declared to be director. necessary: (1) To establish a city emergency manage- ment 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 with respect to the carrying out of emergency preparedness func- tions. (4) To comply with the provisions of Minn. Stats. ch. 12, known as the Minnesota Emergency Management Act of 1996. (5) To participate as a member of the Lake Minnetonka Regional Emergency Manage- ment, Preparedness Planning and Review Committee, review and accept its emergency plan as the city's basic plan for responses to emergencies, disasters, major incidents, mutual aid and other projects consistent with this article and Minn. Stats. ch. 12. (Code 1984, § 9.36(1); Code 2003, § 42-32; Ord. No. 185(2nd series), § 1, 2-22-1999) Sec. 5.04.130. Establishment of an emergency management organization. There is hereby created with the city govern- ment an emergency management organization, which shall be under the supervision and control of the emergency management director, hereinafter called the "director." The director shall be appointed by the mayor. The director shall have direct responsibility for the organiza- tion, administration and operation of the emergency preparedness organization. (Code 1984, § 9.36(3); Code 2003, § 42-33; Ord. No. 185(2nd series), § 1, 2-22-1999) (a) The director may develop additional mutual aid agreements with other political subdivisions of the state for reciprocal emergency manage- ment aid and assistance in an emergency too great to be dealt with unassisted, and shall present such agreements to the city for its action. Such arrangements shall be consistent with the emergency plan. The director shall also be the city's representative on the Lake Minne- tonka Regional Emergency Management, Preparedness Planning and Review Committee. (b) The director shall make assessments of personnel, businesses and industries, resources and facilities of the city as deemed necessary to determine their adequacy for emergency manage- ment and to plan for their most efficient use in time of an emergency, major incident or disaster. (c) The director shall prepare a comprehensive emergency plan for the emergency preparedness of the city and shall present such plan to the city for its approval. When the council has approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all city agencies and all 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 basic emergency management activities of the city to the end that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the basic emergency plan of the Lake Minnetonka Regional Emergency Manage- ment, Preparedness Planning and Review Com- mittee, and federal and state governments. (d) In accordance with the emergency plan, the director 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 emergency plan when a disaster, major incident or mutual aid occurs. (e) The director, during an emergency, major incident or mutual aid, shall utilize the person- nel, services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the city to the maximum extent practicable. The officers CD5:12