[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Monona
as Title 5, Ch. 3, of the 1994 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
To ensure that the City of Monona will be prepared to cope with emergencies
resulting from man-made or natural disasters, an emergency management
organization consisting of the Public Safety Committee and Emergency
Management Director is created to carry out all emergency functions,
other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible,
to minimize and repair injury and damage resulting from fire, tornado
or other natural or man-made causes.
B.
To ensure that all civil emergency functions of the City are to be
coordinated to the maximum extent practicable with existing services
and facilities of the City and with comparable functions of the federal,
state, county and other political subdivisions, and of various private
agencies, to the end that the most effective preparation and use may
be made of manpower, resources and facilities for dealing with any
disaster that may occur.
C.
Chapter 323, Wis. Stats., is herein incorporated in this chapter
by reference.
A.
Composition. The Emergency Planning Committee shall consist of the
Mayor and the Council's Public Safety Committee.
B.
Appointment. The Committee members shall be appointed by the Mayor,
subject to confirmation by the Common Council.
C.
Duties of the Emergency Planning Committee. The Emergency Planning
Committee shall be an advisory and planning group and shall advise
the Mayor, Emergency Management Director, and the Common Council on
all matters pertaining to emergency management. The Emergency Planning
Committee shall meet upon the call of the Chairperson.
A.
Appointment. The Emergency Management Director shall be appointed
by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common Council, and shall
receive such salary as may be authorized by the Common Council. The
Emergency Management Director shall be appointed in odd-numbered years
for a two-year term of office, commencing on May 1 of the year of
appointment.
B.
Duties and authority of the Emergency Management Director.
(1)
The Director shall have direct responsibility for the organization,
administration and operation of the emergency management organization,
subject to the control of the Mayor and the Common Council.
(2)
The Director shall coordinate all activities for emergency management
within the City and shall maintain liaison and cooperate with emergency
management agencies of other political subdivisions and of the County.
(3)
The Director shall participate in county and state emergency management
activities upon request of the Mayor.
(4)
The Director shall maintain a comprehensive disaster plan for the
City of Monona and shall present such plan to the Common Council for
its approval. All municipal agencies and emergency forces of the City
shall perform the duties and functions assigned by the disaster plan.
(5)
The Director shall have such additional authority, duties and responsibilities
as are authorized in this chapter and as may from time to time be
required by the Common Council.
In preparing and executing the disaster plan, the Director,
with the full cooperation of all City officers and personnel, shall
utilize the services, equipment, supplies and facilities of the existing
departments and agencies of the City to the maximum extent practicable.
Whenever necessary to meet a civil emergency for which adequate
regulations have not been adopted by the Common Council, the Mayor
(and, in his or her absence, in order, the Council President or the
senior member of the Common Council available) may by proclamation
promulgate and enforce such orders, rules and regulations relating
to the conduct of persons and the use of property as shall be necessary
to protect the public peace, health and safety, and preserve lives
and property, and to ensure the cooperation necessary in civil emergency
activities. Such proclamations shall be posted in a public place and
may be rescinded by the Common Council by resolution at any time.
The Emergency Management Director may enter into mutual aid
agreements with other political subdivisions, subject to approval
by the Common Council.
A.
Upon declaration by the Governor, the Mayor, the Emergency Management
Director in the absence of the Mayor, or the Common Council of a state
of emergency, the Emergency Management Director shall issue all necessary
proclamations as to the existence of such state of emergency and shall
issue such disaster warnings or alerts as shall be required in the
Disaster Plan.
B.
The emergency management organization shall take action in accordance
with the Disaster Plan only after the declaration of an emergency
and the issuance of official disaster warnings. Such state of emergency
shall continue until terminated by the issuing authority with the
provision that any such declaration not issued by the Governor may
be terminated at the discretion of the Common Council.
