HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-153 - Adoption of Platte County Emergency Operations Plan-- .
BILL N0.2005-153
ORDINANCE N0.2005-153
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ALL PREVIOUS EMERGENCY OPERATION PLANS
FOR THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, BY THE ADOPTION OF THE PLATTE
COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN.
WHEREAS, the board of Aldermen of the City of Riverside, Missouri recognizes that no
community is immune from natural hazazds or terrorist threats and recognizes the importance of
enhancing its ability to withstand those hazazds or threats as well as the importance of reducing
human suffering, property damage, interruption of public service's and economic losses caused
by those hazazds or threats; and
WHEREAS, the Platte County Sheriff Emergency Operations Division has developed an
Emergency Operation Plan that assists communities in their efforts to become disaster/threat
resistant communities that focus not just on disaster relief but also on recovery and re-
construction that bring the community to at least apre-disaster/threat condition in an accelerated,
orderly and pre-planned manner; and
WHEREAS, by participating in the Platte County Sheriff Emergency Operations Plan the
City of Riverside, Missouri will be eligible to apply for post disaster mitigation funds; and
WHEREAS, upon implementation of the Platte County Emergency Operations Plan the
City of Riverside, Missouri will implement pertinent precepts of the program in cooperation with
community partners and by incorporation of relevant information into other community plans
and mechanisms where appropriate; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Riverside, Missouri finds that
implementation of Platte County Sheriff Emergency Operations Plan is in the best interests of the
City and promotes public health, safety and welfaze.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Boazd of Aldermen of the City of
Riverside, Missouri as follows:
The City of Riverside, Missouri hereby approves and adopts the Platte County Sheriff
Emergency Operations Plan for the purpose of building a safer community by reducing
vulnerability to natural hazazds and terrorist threats. This plan will be kept on file with the
Department of Public Safety.
Passed this~~ay of 2005.
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Ci Clerk
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Ma or Pro Tem Ray Beazd
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