8619-12 Adopt County Office of Emergency Mgmt as City Emergency Mgmt Agency

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RESOLUTION NO. 8619-12 BZ'~ Anderson, Bullock, Juris, P4adigan, Nowlin, Powers, Smith. A RESOLUTION to take effect iimnediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of Council, or otheitivise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, to approve the adoption of the Office of Emergency Management for Cuyahoga County, 2012. WHEREAS, O.R.C. §5502.271 specifies that each political subdivision shall establish a program for emergency management if the political subdivision has not entered into a written agreement establishing either a countywide emergency management agency under O.R.C. §5502.26 or a regional authority for emergency management under O.R.C. §5502.27; and WHEREAS, Cuyahoga County has created the Office of Emergency Management under the Department of Public Safety and Justice Services, for the efficient planning, mitigation, response, and recovery actions for all citizens of the County; and WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable that all Federal, State and local emergency agencies and personnel coordinate their efforts to effectively and efficiently provide the highest levels of incident management; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) of its members deternines that this resolution is an emergency measure, and that this resolution shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in Article III, Sections 10 and 13 of the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, and that it is necessary for the irmnediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal deparGnents in that it is necessary for the effective management of emergencies. Now Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That the City of Lakewood does hereby establish the Cuyahoga County Department of Public Safety and Justice Services, Office of Emergency Management to be its countywide emergency management agency. Section 2. It is found and determined that all fornal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were iu meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. This resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this resolution,