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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Joseph Jones, Emergency Management Coordinator
DATE: 04/04/2016
SUBJECT:
Requesting approval to adopt the Illinois Emergency Management Mutual Aid System.
PURPOSE:
The Illinois Emergency Management Mutual Aid System (IEMMAS), an agency-based agreement between local governments and IESMA provides for mutual aid to agencies that may need emergency management support in times of disaster or other emergencies overwhelming local jurisdictions. These services are supported by highly trained members of the Emergency Management Assistance Team (EMAT) comprised of North, Central and Southern teams. These teams are equipped with the necessary interoperable communications, information technology equipment and a mobile Emergency Operations Center to augment or stand as temporary Emergency Operations Center, if necessary. All IESMA assets are dispatched and tracked from the association's 24-hour dispatch center (EM-COM).
This agreement process has been in effect since 2003. Currently there are 94 counties and 54 municipal communities signed on to the agreement. This agreement would allow for Emergency Management personnel and equipment to respond into Aurora if there was a need for assistance. The agreement would provide for the City of Aurora Emergency Management personnel and equipment to assist agencies within the state.
BACKGROUND:
The Illinois Emergency Management Mutual Aid System (IEMMAS), an agency-based agreement between local governments and IESMA provides for mutual aid to agencies that may need emergency management support in times of disaster or other emergencies overwhelming local jurisdictions has been in place since 2003. The City of Aurora has not been a participating agency in this agreement. This agreement would allow for Emergency Management personnel and equipment to respond into Aurora if there was a need for assistance. The agreement would provide for the City of Aurora Emergency Managemen...
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