There shall be an Emergency Management Director,
who shall be the Town Manager or his designee. In addition, the Town
Manager shall appoint an Emergency Management Team, consisting of
the Westerly Emergency Management Director, his/her deputies, representatives
from police, public works, school, planning, finance department, other
staff as the Emergency Management Director deems necessary, fire,
EMS and medical community. There shall be on file in the office of
the Town Manager an emergency operations plan for the Town of Westerly.
The Town Manager is authorized to conduct an annual review of this
plan to identify where improvements can be made and administratively
incorporate these revisions into the emergency operations plan. Any
state statutes or local ordinances relating to emergency management
which refer to a chief executive officer and/or principal executive
officer shall be deemed to mean the Town Manager.