2-29-040 Executive Director - Powers and duties.
The Executive Director and such employees as designated shall have the following powers and duties:
1. To manage and operate: (a) the city's emergency telephone system that supports the response of police, fire and emergency medical service resources to emergency services calls initiated by the public; and (b) the city's information and service request telephone system;
2. To manage and operate an emergency operations/command center to coordinate a multi-agency emergency response to disasters;
3. To monitor and coordinate the city's response to all disasters which require a multi-agency response;
4. In order to prepare for disasters which may require a multi-agency response, to coordinate with city departments and sister agencies to implement: (a) training programs; (b) emergency response exercises; and (c) emergency response plans including, but not limited to, the development, revision and exercise of the city's emergency operations plan and its annexes in accordance with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act;
4-A. To implement the National Incident Management System and to administer federal and state preparedness grant programs made available under that system;
5. To coordinate with state, federal and other governmental units, and with the private sector, to carry out the purposes of the office;
6. To provide recommendations to the mayor regarding the city's emergency response capabilities, and the city's capacity to address disasters and to provide homeland security;
7. To increase public awareness regarding emergency preparedness and emergency conditions, and to review the city's systems for disseminating emergency information to the public;
8. To acquire federal and other funding for homeland security and emergency management, including but not limited to disaster relief and emergency preparedness, and to assist other agencies in obtaining such funding in coordination with the Office of Public Safety Administration;
9. To negotiate and execute with other governmental units, non-profit and volunteer groups, and private parties, in coordination with the Office of Public Safety Administration:
(a) memoranda of understanding or mutual aid agreements for personnel assistance or resources in disasters, and
(b) agreements for:
(i) the placement of city emergency telecommunications antennas and other equipment, or
(ii) the sharing or use of video images,
(c) agreements for promoting public education and awareness, and
(d) agreements for tests and simulations to enhance first responder preparedness,
if such memoranda or agreements are useful to the functions of the office or otherwise in furtherance of homeland security, emergency management or public safety, and to enter into and execute all such other instruments and to perform any and all acts, including the expenditure of funds subject to appropriation therefor, as shall be necessary or advisable in connection with the implementation of such memoranda and agreements, including any renewals thereto, and including provisions providing indemnification, and to coordinate with neighboring municipalities to provide city resources in disasters to prevent injury or loss of life;
10. To serve as emergency coordinator of the city's emergency management programs pursuant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act and to carry out such other functions as may be required pursuant to that Act; and
11. To establish and operate a traffic management authority charged with overseeing traffic movement, traffic control and traffic safety; and
(a) To enforce parking and compliance ordinances, to designate traffic control aides as defined in Section 9-4-010 of this Code and to supervise traffic control aides in conformity with the requirements of this Code; and
(b) To develop and implement traffic control technologies, including but not limited to traffic signal timing and traffic and traffic crash data collection and compiling, and planning traffic signals; and
(c) To coordinate the utilization of operational equipment in exercise of the authority to tow vehicles, as provided for in Sections 9-92-010 and 9-92-030 of this Code, for the purpose of carrying out provisions of the traffic regulations; and
(d) To review applications for events and occurrences which impact or impede the flow of traffic on the public way; and
12. To establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to any matter pertaining to the administration, implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. Any such rules and regulations that have a direct impact upon another city department shall be provided to that department for comment before becoming effective; and
13. To establish and operate an operations / command center to monitor and coordinate the day-to- day delivery of emergency services.
14. To inspect and supervise the installation, repair and maintenance of all public-safety-related radio communications equipment and its associated components in all buildings, structures and vehicles owned or used by the city.
15. To enter into and execute sponsorship agreements with sponsors of events, programs, and initiatives under the executive director's jurisdiction. Such sponsorship agreements shall contain such terms and conditions that the executive director deems appropriate. All sponsorship agreements shall be subject to the approval of the corporation counsel as to form and legality. For purposes of this definition, "sponsors" means those persons providing money or other in-kind goods or services to the City in exchange for advertising or promotional rights at events, programs, or initiatives under the executive director's jurisdiction. Persons meeting the definition of sponsor in the previous sentence may, in the discretion of the executive director, and upon such terms as the executive director determines, sell goods and services to the public at such events, programs, or initiatives.
16. To negotiate and execute agreements with the Chicago Transit Authority ("CTA") regarding the deployment of City traffic control aides to CTA projects for the construction or rehabilitation of public transportation infrastructure. Any such agreements shall not include any expenditure of city funds, and shall be subject to the budget director's approval.
(Added Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99026, § 8.1; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-03, p. 13426, § 3.3; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9; Amend Coun. J. 3-1-06, p. 71710, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 2-7-07, p. 98164, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 9-5-07, p. 6879, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-30-08, p. 34871, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. IX, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 12-2-09, p. 78837, Art. 1, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-28-10, p. 97574, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 3-9-11, p. 113568; Amend Coun. J. 11-8-12, p. 38872, § 4; Amend Coun. J. 4-30-14, p. 79476, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-26-19, p. 11390, Art. V, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 11-17-21, p. 41319, Art. II, § 1)
