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Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions of Ordinance Nos. A.C. 1969, 8.13, MC-1974-5, MC 1994-2 and MC 1994-9.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2012-09, June 18, 2012; amended 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-21; 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-22]
The City of Plainfield's Emergency Management Council shall be recommended by the Emergency Management Coordinator and be approved by the Mayor with the advice of the City Council. The Emergency Management Council shall be composed of no more than fifteen (15) members. Membership shall consist of local agency representation including, but not limited to: Plainfield Council of Concerned Urban Clergy, the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce, Solaris Health Systems, El Centro Hispanoamericano, the Plainfield Health Center, the Plainfield Area Red Cross, the Plainfield City Utilities, the Plainfield Board of Education, and the Plainfield Housing Authority, as well as, the City Departments of Public Safety, Public Works and Urban Development, and Administration, Finance and Health. The members of the Emergency Management Council shall hold office at the pleasure of the Mayor. The Emergency Management Coordinator shall serve as a member of the Emergency Management Council and as its Director. The Emergency Management Council shall be assigned to the Office of the Director of Public Affairs and Safety for budgetary purposes.
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State law reference: As to Emergency Management and Emergency Management Coordinator, see N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.2 et seq.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
The Mayor shall appoint with the advice and consent of the City Council an Emergency Management Coordinator from among the residents of the municipality. The Emergency Management Coordinator, subject to fulfilling the requirements set forth in N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.1, shall serve for a term of three (3) years. As a condition of appointment and the right to continue for the full term of said appointment, the Emergency Management Coordinator shall have successfully completed at the time of appointment or within one (1) year immediately following appointment, the concurrent approved Home Study Course and the basic Emergency Management workshop. The failure of the Emergency Management Coordinator to fulfill such requirement within the period prescribed shall disqualify the Coordinator from continuing in the office of Coordinator and thereupon a vacancy in said office shall be deemed to have been created.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2010-15, § 4, June 21, 2010]
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall be responsible for the planning, activating, coordination and conduct of emergency management operations within the City, and otherwise exercise the duties and responsibilities established by the State law or Executive Order.
The Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator shall perform the duties and responsibilities as the Coordinator at times and hours outside of his/her regular work hours and shall be required to provide all timesheets and all other necessary reporting documents in support of all time expended as Coordinator or where, (b) the appointee is a full time City employee, he/she shall perform the duties and responsibilities as the Coordinator at times and hours outside of his/her regular work hours and shall be required to provide all timesheets and all other necessary reporting documents in support of all time expended as Coordinator or where, (c) the appointee is not a City employee, he/she shall not be eligible or otherwise entitled to benefits of any kind associated with his/her appointment as the Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2012-03, March 12, 2012; MC 2015-06, March 9, 2015; amended 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-21; 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-22]
Deputy Coordinators may be employees of the City of Plainfield, the Plainfield Board of Education, the Plainfield City Utilities or the Plainfield Rescue Squad. The Mayor of the City of Plainfield in coordination with the Emergency Management Coordinator, upon filing notice with the City Clerk may appoint up to eleven (11) Deputy Coordinators. One (1) from the Police Division, one (1) from the Fire Division, one (1) from the Department of Public Works & Urban Development, one (1) from the Division of Health, one (1) from the Division of Information Technology, one (1) from the office of the City Clerk, one (1) from the Plainfield Rescue Squad, one (1) from the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority, one (1) from the Plainfield Board of Education, the Mayor and or his/her designee, the City Administrator and/or his/her designee.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
(a) 
The Emergency Management Council shall assist the municipality in establishing the various local agencies needed to meet the requirements of all Local Emergency Management activities in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the Governor of the State of New Jersey in pursuance of the provisions of this act.
(b) 
The Emergency Management Council is authorized within the limit of appropriations to establish an adequate organization to assist in supervising and coordinating the Emergency Management activities.
(c) 
Such Emergency Management Council shall assist and advise the Emergency Management Coordinator on matters pertaining to Emergency Management.
(d) 
It shall be lawful for members of the Emergency Management Council, also to be members of other agencies created because of any emergency.
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State law reference: As to powers and duties of the Local Emergency Management Council, see N.J.S.A. App. A:9-41 et seq.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
(a) 
In time of disaster, no representative of the City shall request aid directly from noncontiguous municipalities, nor shall any municipality or public or semi-public agency send personnel or equipment into the City unless and until such aid has been directed by the Union County Emergency Management Coordinator or his deputy.
(b) 
Specific exemption from the action of this section may be granted only by the authority of the New Jersey State Director of Emergency Management.
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State law reference: As to aid in time of disaster, see N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.6 et seq.
[MC 2013-08, § 1, September 9, 2013]
A CERT Team is hereby established in the City of Plainfield. The CERT Team shall be within the Office of Emergency Management and shall be under the supervision and control of the City of Plainfield's Emergency Management Coordinator or his/her designee.
[MC 2013-08, § 2, September 9, 2013]
The mission, organization and purpose of the CERT Team is to provide volunteer services for natural and other disasters under the direction of the Office of Emergency Management to supplement and assist police, fire and Emergency Management Services response to disaster.
[MC 2013-08, § 3, September 9, 2013]
CERT Team member shall be volunteers appointed by the Mayor with advice and consent of the City Council. Each CERT Team member shall serve for a term of three (3) years. To be considered eligible, a volunteer must be eighteen (18) years of age and reside or work within the City of Plainfield.
[MC 2013-08, § 4, September 9, 2013]
All CERT Team members will receive basic-level training as required by the Federal Emergency Management Administration and will include:
(a) 
Disaster first aid;
(b) 
Family disaster preparedness;
(c) 
Disaster fire suppression;
(d) 
Medical operations;
(e) 
CERT Operations in Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Incidents;
(f) 
Disaster mental health;
(g) 
Basic emergency management; and
(h) 
Disaster simulation—skills review.
[MC 2013-08, § 5, September 9, 2013]
Other volunteers, who are not members of CERT, may volunteer to assist the Office of Emergency Management. These volunteers shall perform tasks as assigned by the Coordinator of Emergency Management. All volunteers shall be under the control and direction of the Emergency Management Coordinator, or his or her designee.