The Board of Trustees of Miami Township, Clermont County, Ohio met in regular session at the Miami Township Civic Building on September 7, 2004 with the following members present: Edwin H. Humphrey, Joseph W. Uecker and Mary Makley Wolff.
MR. UECKER made a motion to adopt the following Resolution:
RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE NATIONAL INCIDENT
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS)
WHEREAS, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5), Management of Domestic Incidents, on February 28, 2003, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop, submit for review to the Homeland Security Council, and administer a National Incident Management System (NIMS); and
WHEREAS, NIMS will provide a consistent nationwide approach allowing federal, state, local and tribal governments to work effectively and efficiently to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents: and
WHEREAS, the Department of Homeland Security has sought extensive input on NIMS from state, local and tribal officials, the emergency response community, and the private sector and has incorporated the best practices currently in use by incident managers; and
WHEREAS, effective homeland security incident management involves new concepts, processes, and protocols that will require refinement over time. The collective input and guidance from all homeland security partners has been, and will continue to be, vital to the further development of an effective and comprehensive national incident management system; and
WHEREAS, NIMS was published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2004; and
WHEREAS, HSPD-5 and NIMS require all federal departments and agencies to adopt NIMS and use it in domestic incident management and emergency prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs and activities, as well as to assist state, local, or tribal entities; and
WHEREAS, HSPD-5 and NIMS require federal departments and agencies to make state, tribal and local organizations adopt NIMS as a condition for federal preparedness assistance beginning in federal FY 2005.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of Miami Township,
Clermont County, Ohio by authority of Chapter 504 of the Ohio Revised Code, as
follows:
SECTION 1: That all departments of the Township shall utilize the National
Incident Management System (NIMS) prescribed by the Department of Homeland
Security.
SECTION 2: That the Miami Township Board of Trustees directs all departments to train their personnel on the NIMS and to update the Miami Township Integrated Emergency Management Plan.
SECTION 3: The Board does hereby dispense with the requirement that this Resolution be read on two separate days, pursuant to Section 504.10 of the Ohio Revised Code, and authorizes the adoption of this Resolution upon its first reading.
SECTION 4: That this Board hereby finds and determines that all formal actions relative to the passage of this Resolution were taken in an open meeting of this Board, and that all deliberations of this Board and of its Committees, if any, which resulted in formal action, were taken in meetings open to the public, in full compliance with applicable legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.
SECTION 5: This Resolution shall take effect at the earliest period allowed by law.
First Reading: September 7, 2004
Second Reading: Dispensed with
Effective: October 7, 2004
MRS. WOLFF seconded the motion to adopt the Resolution. On the roll call being called the vote resulted as follows:
Mr. Humphrey AYE
Mr. Uecker AYE
Mrs. Wolff AYE
Resolution 2004 - 32 adopted September 7, 2004.