O-2008-1498-A PASSED-establish program of comprehensive emergency management,original in 1986

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A) The Emergency Management Director shall designate the person employed as the City Emergency Management Coordinator to serve as an assistant to the Emergency Management Director for emergency management purposes, as allowed by Texas Government Code Section 418.1015. However, for all purposes the Emergency Management Coordinator shall remain an employee of the City subject to the authority of the City Manager, under the La Porte City Charter. B) The Director shall be responsible for conducting a program of comprehensive emergency management within the city and for carrying out the duties and responsibilities set forth in Section 3 of this ordinance. He may delegate authority for execution ofthese duties to the Coordinator, but ultimate responsibility for such execution shall remain with the Director. Section 2. The powers and duties of the Director shall include an on-going survey of actual or potential major hazards which threaten life and property within the city; and an on-going 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 plan for the City of La Porte, and shall recommend the 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 plan. The powers of the Director shall include the authority to declare a state of disaster, but such action duties of the Director shall also include the causing of a survey of the availability of existing personnel, equipment, supplies, and services which could be used during a disaster, as provided for herein, as well as a continuing study of the need for amendments and improvements in the emergency management plan. Section 3. The duties and responsibilities of the Emergency Management Director, to be executed both through personal actions and through the delegation of tasks, shall include the following: A) The direction and control of the actual disaster operations of the La Porte Office of Emergency Management as well as the training of the Emergency Management personnel. B) The determination of all questions of authority and responsibilities that may arise within the emergency management organization of the city. C) The maintenance of necessary liaison with other municipal, county, district, state, regional, federal, or other Emergency Management organizations.