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<br />A) An Emergency Management Coordinator will be appointed by and <br />serve at the pleasure of the Director; <br /> <br />B) The Director shall be responsible for conducting a program of <br />comprehensive emergency management within the city and for carrying <br />out the duties and responsibilities set forth in Section 4 of this ordinance. <br />He may delegate authority for execution of these duties to the Coordinator, <br />but ultimate responsibility for such execution shall remain with the <br />Director. <br /> <br />Section 2. The powers and duties of the Director shall include an on-going survey of <br />actual or potential major hazards which threaten life and property within the city; and an <br />on-going program of identifying and requiring or recommending the implementation of <br />measures which would tend to prevent the occurrence or reduce the impact of such <br />hazards if a disaster did occur. As part of his responsibility in hazard mitigation, the <br />Director shall supervise the development of an emergency management plan for the City <br />of La Porte, and shall recommend the plan for adoption by the City Council along with <br />any and all mutual aid plans and agreements which are deemed essential for the <br />implementation of such emergency management plan. The powers of the Director shall <br />include the authority to declare a state of disaster, but such action duties of the Director <br />shall also include the causing of a survey of the availability of existing personnel, <br />equipment, supplies, and services which could be used during a disaster, as provided for <br />herein, as well as a continuing study of the need for amendments and improvements in <br />the emergency management plan. <br /> <br />Section 3. The duties and responsibilities of the Emergency Management Director, to be <br />executed both through personal actions and through the delegation of tasks, shall include <br />the following: <br /> <br />A) The direction and control of the actual disaster operations of the La <br />Porte Office of Emergency Management as well as the training of the <br />Emergency Management personnel. <br /> <br />B) The determination of all questions of authority and responsibilities that <br />may arise within the emergency management organization of the city. <br /> <br />C) The maintenance of necessary liaison with other municipal, county, <br />district, state, regional, federal, or other Emergency Management <br />organizations. <br /> <br />D) The marshaling, after declaration of a disaster as provided for above, of <br />all necessary personnel, equipment, or supplies from any department of <br />the City which may aid in carrying out the provisions of the emergency <br />management plan. <br />