Whenever a local emergency has been declared, the Director of emergency
management, deputy Director, or any member of the City Council in
the absence of the Director, if so authorized by the City Council,
may control, restrict, allocate or regulate the use, sale, production
and distribution of food, fuel, clothing and other commodities, materials,
goods, services and resource systems which fall only within the boundaries
of the City and which do not impact systems affecting adjoining or
other political subdivisions, enter into contracts and incur obligations
necessary to combat such threatened or actual disaster, protect the
health and safety of persons and property and provide emergency assistance
to the victims of such disaster, and proceed without regard to time-consuming
procedures and formalities prescribed by law (except mandatory constitutional
requirements) pertaining to the performance of public work, entering
into contracts, incurring of obligations, employment of temporary
workers, rental of equipment, purchase of supplies and materials,
and other expenditures of public funds, provided such funds in excess
of appropriations in the current approved budget, unobligated, are
available. Whenever the governor has declared a state of emergency,
the City, if affected, may, under the supervision and control of the
governor or his designated representative, enter into contracts and
incur obligations necessary to combat such threatened or actual disaster
beyond the capabilities of local government, protect the health and
safety of persons and property and provide emergency assistance to
the victims of such disaster. In exercising the powers vested under
this section, under the supervision and control of the governor, the
City may proceed without regard to time-consuming procedures and formalities
prescribed by law pertaining to public work, entering into contracts,
incurring of obligations, employment of temporary workers, rental
of equipment, purchase of supplies and materials, levying of taxes,
and appropriation and expenditure of public funds.