That the Community Services Committee recommend to Council:
Whereas By-law 77-2008 (“the Emergency Management By-law”), as amended, sets out the emergency management program for the City of Oshawa (“the City”) pursuant to the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act; and,
Whereas the Emergency Management By-law needs to be further amended in order to update the designated persons list for both the Municipal Control Group (M.C.G.) and the Community Emergency Management Program Committee (C.E.M.P.C.), as shown in the proposed bylaw forming Attachment 1; and,
Whereas the M.C.G.’s responsibilities include the control of all operations during an emergency, such as but not limited to assessing the short, medium and long-term emergency operating requirements of the City, recommending the declaration, extension and/or the termination of a state of emergency, making policy decisions, setting operational priorities, and assigning resources and issuing instructions to City departments; and,
Whereas the role of the C.E.M.P.C. is to act as a coordinating body to facilitate municipal level coordination and cooperation regarding the emergency management program, such as reviewing and providing policy advice with respect to the state of emergency management in the City, drafting plans, procedures and operational guidelines, coordinating training and exercises, and providing public education; and,
Whereas some of the proposed amendments to the Emergency Management By-law for both the M.C.G. and C.E.M.P.C. are housekeeping amendments due to changes in position titles and responsibilities such as changing City Manager to Chief Administrative Officer (C.A.O.), changing the Director of Public Works to Director of Operations Services, and clarifying that the Emergency Information Officer is the Manager of Corporate Communications; and,
Whereas proposed updates to the M.C.G. include such matters as adding the Fire Chief, the two Deputy Fire Chiefs, the Assistant Deputy Fire Chief and the Commissioner of Finance and deleting the Director of Transportation Services, representatives from Durham Region Transit, Durham Region Police Services, OPUC, Durham Emergency Management Office and Durham Emergency Medical Services since they can be consulted at any time on an as needed basis as required by the C.A.O.; and,
Whereas proposed updates to the C.E.M.P.C. include such matters as adding the Assistant Deputy Fire Chief, the Manager of Corporation Communications, a Lakeridge Health Oshawa representative and a Central Lake Ontario Conservation Representative and deleting and the Director of Property Management Services; and,
Whereas it is appropriate to update the designated persons list for the M.C.G. and C.E.M.P.C.;
Therefore pursuant to Report CS-22-23, the Emergency Management By-law, as amended, be further amended as generally set out in the Proposed By-law in Attachment 1 and such By-law shall be in a form and content acceptable to the Commissioner, Community Services Department, the Fire Chief and Legal Services.