HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 15 - Emergency Management ProgramMEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: • RUMBELOW, CITY MANAGER
MEETING DATE: AUGUST 5, 2014
SUBJECT: JOINT RESOLUTION WITH TARRANT COUNTY ESTABLISHING AN
INTER-JURISICTIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
RECOMMENDATION:
City Council consider approving a joint resolution with Tarrant County to establish an inter -
jurisdictional emergency management program.
As outlined in the resolution, Tarrant County and the City of Grapevine will enter into a joint
effort to develop an emergency management plan.
Tarrant County will coordinate the development of a county -wide emergency management
plan to which individual cities elect to participate. Presently, other emergency management
planning documents are coordinated through the county including the hazard mitigation action
plan and local emergency planning committee plans and reports.
Under the proposed resolution, the Emergency Management Coordinator will be responsible
for the development of specific plans, procedures, and documents relating to the emergency
preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation efforts specific to the City of Grapevine. The
Grapevine documents will then be shared with the Tarrant County Emergency Management
Coordinator and consolidated into a countywide emergency management plan.
The inter -jurisdictional program is designed to establish a mechanism for Tarrant County to
assist offices with limited emergency management administrative support to reach state
planning thresholds for grant eligibility requirements.
Staff recommends approval.
RESOLUTION NO.
JOINT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN
INTER -JURISDICTIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City of Grapevine and Tarrant County have established similar programs of
comprehensive emergency management which includes the mitigation, preparedness, response
and recovery phases of emergency management; and
WHEREAS, the City of Grapevine and Tarrant County find that vulnerability to many potential
hazards is shared by residents of the City of Grapevine and the unincorporated portions of Tarrant
County; and
WHEREAS, the City and County further finds that the common goal of emergency management
can best be achieved through an organization which shares the combined resources of the City and the
County; and
WHEREAS, the contemplated action is specifically authorized by the aforementioned Ordinance
and Court Order;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Grapevine, Texas that;
SECTION 1. The Mayor of Grapevine shall appoint an Emergency Management Coordinator to
coordinate all aspects of the city comprehensive emergency management program and the Tarrant County
Judge shall appoint an Emergency Management Coordinator to coordinate all aspects of the County
comprehensive emergency management program.
SECTION 2. The program includes the preparation and maintenance of an inter jurisdictional
emergency management plan for the City of Grapevine and Tarrant County in accordance with this
resolution.
SECTION 3. Any party to this agreement may withdraw from the combined organization created by
this resolution and its related inter jurisdictional emergency management plan by giving 60 days advance
notice in writing to each of the signatories of this resolution and by submitting the appropriate
documentation to the State of Texas, Texas Division of Emergency Management.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED on day of , 2014.
CITY OF GRAPEVINE TARRANT COUNTY
Mayor
Date:
B. Glen Whitley, County Judge
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