HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 06-053
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DENTON COUNTY
JOINT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN
INTERJURISDICTIONAl EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City of The Colony by City Ordinance dated June 6, 1977, and Denton
County by Commissioners Court Order dated July 21, 1986, have established similar
programs of comprehensive emergency management which includes the mitigation,
preparedness, response and recovery phases of emergency management; and
WHEREAS, the City and County find that vulnerability to many potential hazards is
shared by residents of The Colony and the unincorporated portions of Denton 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;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that there is hereby established the Denton
County/The Colony Emergency Management program which shall consist of the officers
and employees of the City and of the County as designated in an interjurisdictional
emergency management plan, together with such organized volunteer groups as that
plan may specify; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of The Colony and the
Denton County Judge shall mutually appoint an Emergency Management Coordinator
(attachment A) to coordinate all aspects of the Denton County program of
comprehensive emergency management, including the preparation and maintenance of
an interjurisdictional emergency management plan for the City of The Colony and
Denton County in accordance with this resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any party to this agreement may withdraw from the
combined organization created by this resolution and its related interjurisdictional
emergency management plan by giving sixty days advance notice in writing to each of
the signatories to this resolution and to the Governo 's Division of Emergency
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RESOLVED this the d day of . , 20~