A.
There is created the Coal City Emergency Service and Disaster Agency
(ESDA) to prevent, minimize, repair, and alleviate injury due to damage
resulting from disaster caused by enemy attack, sabotage, or other
hostile action, or from natural or human-made disaster in accordance
with the Emergency Management Agency Act of 1988, ILCS Ch. 20, Act
3305, § 1 et seq.
B.
The ESDA shall consist of the Coordinator and such additional members
as may be selected by the Coordinator.
A.
The Coordinator of the Village ESDA shall be appointed by the President
and shall serve until removed by same.
B.
The Coordinator shall have direct responsibility for the organization,
administration, training, and operation of the ESDA, subject to the
direction and control of the Village Board.
C.
In the event of the absence, resignation, death, or inability to
serve of the Coordinator, the President, or any person designated
by him or her, shall be and act as Coordinator until a new appointment
is made as provided in this article.
The Village ESDA shall perform such ESDA functions within the
Village as shall be prescribed in and by the state ESDA plan and program
prepared by the Governor; such orders, rules, and regulations as may
be promulgated by the Governor; and, in addition, shall perform such
duties outside the corporate limits as may be required pursuant to
any mutual aid agreement with any other political subdivision, municipality,
or quasi-municipality entered into as provided by the Emergency Management
Agency Act of 1988, ILCS Ch. 20, Act 3305, § 1 et seq.
A.
All or any members of the Village ESDA organization may be designated
as members of a mobile support team created by the State Director
of ESDA as provided by law.
B.
The leader of the mobile support team shall be designated by the
Coordinator of the Village ESDA organization.
C.
Any member of a mobile support team who is a Village employee or
officer while serving on call to duty by the Governor or the State
Director shall receive the compensation and have the powers, duties,
rights, and immunities incident to such employment or office. Any
member who is not a paid officer or employee of the Village while
so serving shall receive from the state reasonable compensation as
provided by law.
The Coordinator of the ESDA may negotiate mutual aid agreements
with the other cities or political subdivisions of the state, but
no such agreement shall be effective until it has been approved by
the Village Board and by the State Director of ESDA.
If the Governor proclaims that a disaster emergency exists in
the event of actual enemy attack upon the United States or the occurrence
within the state of a major disaster resulting from enemy sabotage
or other hostile action from human-made or natural disaster, it shall
be the duty of the Village ESDA to cooperate fully with the state
ESDA and with the Governor in the exercise of emergency powers as
provided by law.
Members of the ESDA who are paid employees or officers of the
Village if called for training by the State Director of ESDA shall
receive for the time spent in such training the same rate of pay as
is attached to the position held. Members who are not Village employees
or officers shall receive for the training time such compensation
as may be established by the Village Board.
The Village Treasurer may receive and allocate to the appropriate
fund any reimbursement by the state to the Village for expenses incident
to training members of the ESDA as prescribed by the State Director
of ESDA; compensation for services and expense of members of a mobile
support team while serving outside the Village in response to a call
by the Governor or State Director of ESDA, as provided by law; and
any other reimbursement made by the state incident to ESDA activities,
as provided by law.
A.
The Village Board may, on recommendation of the Village Coordinator
of the ESDA, authorize any purchase or contracts necessary to place
the Village in a position to combat effectively any disaster resulting
from the explosion of any nuclear or other bomb or missile, to protect
the public health and safety, protect property, and provide emergency
assistance to victims in the case of such disaster, or from human-made
or natural disaster.
B.
In the event of enemy-caused or other disaster, the Village Coordinator
of the ESDA is authorized on behalf of the Village to procure such
services, supplies, equipment, or material as may be necessary in
view of the exigency without regard to the statutory procedures or
formalities normally prescribed by law pertaining to Village contracts
or obligations as authorized by the Emergency Management Agency Act
of 1988, ILCS Ch. 20, Act 3305, § 1 et seq. If the Village
Board meets at such time, the Village Coordinator shall act subject
to the directions and restrictions imposed by that body.
Every person appointed to serve in any capacity in the Village
ESDA organization shall, before entering upon his or her duties, subscribe
to the following oath, which shall be filed with the Coordinator:
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"I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend and bear true faith and allegiance to the
Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and the territory, institutions, and facilities thereof,
both public and private, against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties upon which I am about to enter. And I do further swear
(or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I nor have I been a member
of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow
of the government of the United States or of this State by force or
violence; and that during such time as I am affiliated with the Coal
City ESDA organization, I will not advocate nor become a member of
any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of
the government of the United States or of this State by force or violence."
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The President is authorized to designate space in the Village
building or elsewhere that may be provided by the Village Board for
the Village ESDA as its office.
There is levied annually a tax not to exceed 0.05% of the full,
fair cash value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Local
Government Affairs, on all of the taxable property therein to provide
revenue for the purpose of emergency services and disaster operations,
on all the taxable property in addition to all other taxes, as provided
by the Emergency Management Agency Act of 1988, ILCS Ch. 20, Act 3305,
§ 1 et seq.; however, the amount collectible under the levy
shall in no event exceed $0.25 per capita.
