01-22-07 Item 2C, City Hall Emergency Mgmt Plan

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Ramsey County-Wide Emergency Operations Plan Mounds View Revision 5.1, June, 2005 Line of Succession The Mayor of Mounds View is ultimately responsible for providing direction and control of city government resources involved in the response to a disaster. The tine of succession to the Mayor is as follows: t. Mayor 2. Acting Mayor 3. City Administrator 4. Finance Director 5. Community Development Director The Mounds View Emergency Management Director will serve in a staff capacity to the Mayor, will imptement this plan, and will coordinate emergency operations. Line of succession to the Mounds View Emergency Management Director is as follows: 1. Deputy Police Chief 2. Fire Chief 3. Police Sergeant Command and Control issnes The Mayor will be responsible for providing overall direction and control of city government resources involved in the response to a disaster. The City Emergency Management Director will serve in a staff capacity to the Mayor, will implement this plan, and will coordinate emergency operations. Direction and control of the City of Mounds View response to a maior disaster will be carried out at the Emeroencv OneratinQ Center I I Excised I For Emergencies/Limited Scope Disasters An incident command system (ICS) will be established to direct the initial response by city forces to the event. (If ICS is implemented, the first arriving senior official will serve as the incident commander, until he/she is properly relieved). If organizational control of the incident escalates beyond the capability of field command, the City Emergency Operating Center (EOC) may be activated to provide overall command of the incident. This will generally become necessary when the incident covers a targe geographic area, multiple locations, and/or when multiple responding agencies are involved. Activation may be requested by the Incident Commander, the E.M. Director or Deputy, Mayor or City Administrator 75