RESOLUTION NO. 6840

A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DOUGLAS COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, AND REPEALING PRIOR RESOLUTIONS OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS RELATING TO PRIOR VERSIONS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN

WHEREAS, K.S.A. 48-929 (d) requires that “each County. . . shall prepare and keep current a disaster emergency plan for the area under its jurisdiction, which has been approved after examination and periodic review by the (State) division of emergency preparedness”; and

WHEREAS, K.S.A. 65-5701 et. seq. adopts certain provisions of the Federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (Title III of Public Law 99-499); and, among other requirements, mandates that chemical emergency operations plans be developed by local emergency planning committees for areas designated by the state emergency response commission; and

WHEREAS, the State Emergency Response Commission for Kansas designated county boundaries as local emergency planning districts; and

WHEREAS, the State of Kansas Division of Emergency Management approved an Amended and Restated Douglas County Emergency Operations Plan on March 23, 2009, finding that it met the Kansas Planning Standards, SARA Title III and NIMS requirements.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS:

Section 1. The “Douglas County Emergency Operations Plan” as approved by the Kansas Division of Emergency Management on March 23, 2009, is adopted and approved for use. Such plan shall supersede all previously adopted disaster and emergency operations plans for the City of Lawrence, Kansas.

Section 2. Annexes and Appendices to the Basic Plan may be adopted and modified by the Douglas County personnel and agencies responsible for their development. Annexes and Appendices that contain information, the disclosure of which would pose a substantial likelihood of revealing security measures such as intelligence information, tactical plans, resource deployment and vulnerability assessments, as further identified in K.S.A. 45-221(a)(45), shall generally not be made available to the general public pursuant to the Kansas Open Records Act.

Section 3. All agencies and individuals are directed to take appropriate actions as set forth in the Douglas County Emergency Operations Plan.

ADOPTED by the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, this ________ day of July 2009.

APPROVED:

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Robert Chestnut, Mayor

ATTEST:

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Jonathan M. Douglass, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

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Toni Ramirez Wheeler

Director of Legal Services