AGREEMENT TO COMMIT PERSONNEL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES TO PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY HEALTH AND COMMON DEFENSE OF ITS PEOPLE DURING EMERGENCIES RESULTING FROM ACTS OF WAR OR FROM NATURAL CAUSES
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1. PURPOSE. Because of the existing possibility of
enemy attack on the United States employing nuclear weapons
of unprecedented destructiveness, and because of the ever
present threat of natural disasters which annually claim many
lives and heavy property loss and in order that the prepara-
tions of Pinellas County shall, to the extent possible within
total existing resources, be adequate to meet the several con-
ditions of such disasters, and to generally provide for the
public peace, health, safety and preservation of the lives and
property of its people, it is hereby found and declared to be
necessary for the County of Pinellas to enter into agreement
with the incorporated and unincorporated communities of the
County for t~e establishment of Civil Defense organizations
and programs pursuant to the following agreement:
2. AGREEMENT.
a. Pinellas County hereby agrees that:
(1) The government of Pinellas County in
accordance with its organization, plans and procedures for the
civil defense of the County commits its personnel and material
resources to provide for the safety, health and common defense
of its people during emergencies resulting from acts of war or
from natural causes.
(2) The Civil Defense organiza.tion of Pinellaa
County will assist the political entities of the County, or such
other communities as may be authorized to enter into such agree-
ment, in the development of organizations, plans, procedures and
progress for civil defense that shall be consistent with the County
and State plans.
(3) In accordance with the State Civil Defense
Law and the State Operational S~vival Plans and Programs, the
Pinellas County Civil Defense organization will coordinate the
employment of all resources with the County in civil defense emer-
gencies, including the employment of such resources outside the
jurisdictional limits of the political subdivisions concerned.
(4) The Pinellas County Civil Defense organization
will assist the incorporated and unincorporated communities of the
County to acquire equipment and materials, through the Federal Con-
tributions Program or the Donable Surplus Property Pre gram, as de-
termined by the County Director of Civil Defense to be necessary and
equitable for the discharge of emergency functions set forth in the
appropriate local Operational Survival Plans.
b. Clearwater, acting through the City Manager as
Coordinator, its authorized repre~entative, hereby agrees as follows
that:
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(1) Clearwater will establish a Civil Defense
organization as provided for in the Florida State Civil Defense
Law, discharge its responsibilities for emergency action in event
of war or natural disasters.
(2) It will designate all its government em-
ployees and other resources as the primary civil defense force
of the political sub-division or community.
(3) It will develop the organization, procedures
and controls which shall be published as its Operational Survival
Plan and will be consistent and integral with the Operational Sur-
vival Plan of Pinellas County for the employment of the City's re-
sources within its jurisdictional limits.
(4) It will organize and train auxiliary or
reserve forces for the expansion of existing forces in time of
emergencies.
(5) It will undertake and carry out such other
programs and procedures as deemed necessary by the City's governing
body, for the development of an effective civil defense within its
jurisdiction.
3. The terms of the above agreement are held to be
mutually satisfactory to the jurisdictions signatory hereto.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have set their
hands and seals this 16th day of November" 1976.
By
APPROVED AS TO FORM
OFFICE OF COUNTY nORNEY
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Attorney
ATTEST:
By
ORE, Clerk
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City Clerk
Pinellas countI' a political
sub-division 0 the State of
Florida by and through its
B 0 Count ommissioners.
By
Counters igned:
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Mayor-Comm siorier