8659-13 Adopting Guidelines for Westshore CERT

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(B) Insurance. The Westshore Council of Govermnents shall maintain general liability insur- ance to cover the volunteer activities of the WSC and such policy shall name the City of Lakewood as an additional insured party. The Westshore Council of Governments shall provide an annual certificate of insurance to each finance director of the Westshore cities. (C) Membership and Identification Cards. Any person 18 years of age or older who is a resi- dent of a Westshore Council of Governments city or is a resident in a city contiguous to a Westshore city may volunteer to become a member of the WSC if they meet all of the following requirements: (1) Submit a completed application for WSC membership. (2) Complete required FEMA training. (3) Abide by and fulfill membership requirements defined in the WSC Guidelines. (4) Submit to a background check. (a) Every WSC applicant shall submit to a background check conducted by the ap- propriate representative of a Westshore city police department. (b) Only upon successful completion thereof as per the WSC Guidelines, the volun- teer shall be issued a WSC identification card, which lie or she may retain during his or her continued active membership and good behavior. (c) The identification card is and remains at all times the property of the WSC. (5) At such time as a volunteer leaves the organization for any reason or is expelled or has his or her membership terminated, he or she agrees to return the identification card to the WSC coordinator forthwith. (D)Dismissal. Westshore safety directors or their designees may, at their discretion, dismiss or deactivate any volunteer from the WSC organization. No volunteer shall acquire any interest or expectation of continued participation, nor shall the Westshore Council of Governments or any of its cities be required to explain or justify the determination to dismiss or deactivate any volunteers' participation. III. Activation (A) The WSC may be activated for the purposes of assisting public safety forces by the inde- pendent determination of a fire chief appointed by the Westshore Council of Govern- ments to serve as the liaison between the WSC and the Westshore Council of Govern- ments (the Fire Chief Designee), or upon the request of any Westshore mayor, the direc- tor of public safety, fire chief or police chief, or the director of the Cuyahoga County Of- fice of Emergency Management.