2.78.030 DIRECTOR—POWERS AND DUTIES.

There is created the office of director of emergency services. The City Manager shall be the director of emergency services.

The director is empowered:

(a) To request the City Council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency and the termination thereof, if the City Council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the City Council is not in session, subject to the confirmation by the City Council at the earliest practicable time;

(b) To request through the mayor that the governor proclaim a state of emergency when in the opinion of the director the resources of the area or region are inadequate to cope with the emergency;

(c) To control and direct the effort of the emergency services organization of this city for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;

(d) To direct coordination and cooperation between divisions, services and staff of the emergency services organization of this city, and to resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;

(e) To represent the emergency services organization of this city in all dealings with public or private agencies pertaining to emergency services.