Number
100772
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution supporting the development of a Southeast Region Incident Management Team (SE-IMT) and authorizing City participation in planning and development of the SE-IMT.
Analysis
This resolution supports participation by appropriate City personnel in planning for and development of a Southeast Region Incident Management Team that will coordinate and manage regional responses to serious incidents threatening the lives, health and safety of residents and will assure that mutual aid is provided when needed by trained personnel including firefighters, police, health personnel and others.
The resolution does not authorize either the application for funding or the appropriation and expenditure of City funds.
This resolution authorizes the Director of the City’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security to provide a letter of intent to appropriate regional authorities together with a copy of this resolution.
Body
Whereas, The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has made more than $830 million available to 64 high-risk urban areas across the nation to expand regional collaboration under the National Preparedness Guidelines, and these funds are intended to assist participating jurisdictions in developing integrated regional systems for prevention, protection, response and recovery when incidents occur of such a magnitude that regional cooperation and interdisciplinary expertise are necessary to address population health and safety, and to martial critical resources; and
Whereas, One of the goals of the Milwaukee Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) is to develop systems of coordination and cooperation among communities within the Southeast Emergency Management Region to plan for responding to natural or man-made emergencies when the resources of local municipal or county jurisdictions may not be sufficient to adequately protect the lives, health and safety of residents or ...
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