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EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
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September 20, 2016
Diane Schleicher
City of Tybee Island
403 Butler Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
Dear Mrs. S
c er,
Please find attached the signed Statewide Mutual Aid and Assistance Agreement
between CEMA, GEMHSA and the City of Tybee Island. I have also attached a copy of
the Local Mutual Aid and Assistance Agreement for your records.
Thank you for your continued support with the agency. If we can be of any assistance,
please let us know.
D: nnis Jones
Dir ctor
Chatham Emergency Management Agency
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CITY OF TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA
STATEWIDE MUTUAL AID AND ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT
CITY OF TYBEE ISLAND, CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA
The State of Georgia is vulnerable to a wide range of natural and man-made disasters and
emergencies. The Georgia Emergency Management Act, as amended (The Act), gives the local
governments of the State the authority to make agreements for mutual aid assistance in
emergencies. Pre-existing agreements for mutual aid assistance in emergencies help to ensure
the timely provision of mutual aid assistance and the reimbursement of costs incurred by those
parties who render such assistance.
This mutual aid agreement is entered pursuant to authorities contacted in Articles I through III,
Chapter 3, Title 38, Official Code of Georgia Annotated.
ARTICLE I
STATEMENT OF AGREEMENT, DEFINITIONS AND AUTHORITIES
This Agreement is made and entered into between the participating political subdivisions, which
approve and execute this Agreement, hereinafter called "Participating Parties" and the Georgia
Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security (GEMA/HS). For purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms and expressions shall apply:
(1) "Agreement" means this agreement, generally referred to as the "Statewide Mutual Aid
Agreement" (SWMAA).
(2) "Assistance" includes personnel, equipment, facilities, services, supplies and other
resources furnished to a Requesting Party pursuant to this Agreement during an emergency or
disaster.
(3) "Assisting Party" means a party that provides assistance pursuant to this Agreement
during an emergency or disaster.
(4) "Authorized Representative" means a Participating Parry's elected or appointed official
or employee who has been authorized in writing by that party to request, to offer, or otherwise to
provide mutual aid assistance.
(5) "Participating Party" means a county or municipality of the State of Georgia that has
become party to this Agreement by its approval and execution of this Agreement.
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(6) "Participating Parties" means the combination of counties and municipalities that have
become parties to this Agreement by their approval and execution of this Agreement.
(7) "Requesting Party" means a party that requests assistance pursuant to this Agreement
during an emergency or disaster.
Any term or expression not defined in this Agreement shall have the meaning specified in the
Georgia Emergency Management Act (the Act), as amended, and rules promulgated thereunder,
unless used in a context that clearly suggests a different meaning.
ARTICLE II
GENERAL PURPOSE
The purpose of this Agreement is to:
1. Provide the agreement framework to support mutual assistance in managing an
emergency or disaster occurring within any political subdivision that is a Participating Party,
whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, human caused disaster, civil
emergency aspects of resource shortages, community disorders, insurgency, enemy attack, acts
of terrorism, other sionificant events or a national security activity; and,
2. Identify those persons who are authorized to act on behalf of the Participating Party
signing this Agreement as their Authorized Representative(s) concerning the provision of mutual
aid resources and requests for mutual aid resources related to any mutual aid assistance sought
from another Participating Party, or from or through the State of Georgia. Appendix A of this
Agreement shall contain the name(s) of the Participating Party's Authorized Representative for
purposes of this Agreement. Appendix A can be amended by the authorizing Participating Party
as needed with no effect on the entire Agreement. All such amendments to Appendix A shall be
done in writing and the Participating Party shall notify GEMA/HS and all other Participating
Parties of such amendment within thirty (30) days.
ARTICLE III
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PRINCIPLES
The prompt, full and effective utilization of resources of the Participating Parties, including any
resources on hand or available from the State or Federal Government or any other source, that
are essential to the safety, care and welfare of the people shall be the underlying principle 011
which all articles of this Agreement shall be understood.
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In the event of a conflict between any provision of this Agreement and any existing intrastate
mutual aid agreement affecting a Participating Party, the provisions of this Agreement shall be
controlling.
On behalf of the governing authority of each political subdivision of this State participating in
the Agreement, the director of emergency management of such political subdivision will be
responsible for formulation of the appropriate mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to
implement this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
PARTICIPATING PARTY RESPONSIBILITIES
(a) It shall be the responsibility of each Participating Party to formulate procedures and
programs for intergovernmental cooperation in the performance of the responsibilities listed in
this Article. In formulating such plans, and in carrying them out, each Participating Party,
insofar as practical, shall:
(1) Protect and assure uninterrupted delivery of services, medicines, water, food,
energy and fuel, search and rescue, and critical lifeline equipment, services, and resources, both
human and material; and
(2) Inventory and set procedures for the loan and delivery of human and material
resources, together with procedures for reimbursement.
(b) Whenever a Participating Party requires mutual aid assistance from another Participating
Party and/or the State of Georgia, the Requesting Party may request assistance by:
(1) Contacting the Participating Party who is the owner/operator/employer of the
supplies, equipment and/or personnel being sought for mutual aid assistance (the Assisting
Party); or
(2) Contacting GEMA/HS to serve as the facilitator of such request for those
resources being sought for mutual aid that are owned/operated/employed by Participating Parties
{where such Participating Parties have submitted a record of those resources to GEMA/HS for
such use); and/or when such resources being sought for mutual aid are owned/operated/employed
directly by the State of Georgia.
The provisions of this Agreement shall only apply to requests for assistance made by an
Authorized Representative. Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the request must be
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confirmed in writing with 30 days of the verbal request. Requests shall provide the following
information:
(1) A description of the emergency service function for which assistance is needed, such as
but not Limited to fire services, law enforcement, emergency medical, transportation,
communications, public works and engineering, building inspection, planning and information
assistance, mass care, resource support, health and medical services, damage assessment,
volunteer and donated goods and search and rescue; and
(2) The amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed, and a
reasonable estimate of the length of time they will be needed; and
(3) The specific place and time for staging of the Assisting Party's response and a point of
contact at that location.
The Assisting Party will (a) maintain daily personnel time records, material records and a log of
equipment hours (or miles, if appropriate) and (b) report work progress to the Requesting Party
at mutually agreed upon intervals.
ARTICLE V
LIMITATIONS
Any Participating Party requested to render mutual aid shall take such action as is necessary to
provide and make available the resources covered by this Agreement in accordance with the
terms hereof; provided that it is understood that the Participating Party who is asked to render aid
may withhold resources to the extent necessary to meet the current or anticipated needs of the
Participating Party's own political subdivision to remain in compliance with such Participating
Party's policy, rule, or law.
The Assisting Party's mutual aid resources will continue under the command and control of their
own supervisors, but the organizational units will be under the operational control of the
emergency services authorities of the Requesting Party unless the Assisting Party approves an
alternative.
In the event the Governor should declare a State of Emergency, any and all provisions of this
Agreement which may conflict with the declared State of Emergency shall be superseded by the
terms and conditions contained within the State of Emergency.
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ARTICLE VI
LIABILITY AND IMMUNITY
(a) In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 38-3-35(a), no political subdivision of the state, nor the
agents or representatives of the state or any political subdivision thereof, shall be liable for
personal injury or property damage sustained by any person appointed or acting as a volunteer
emergency management worker or member of any agency engaged in emergency management
activity. The foregoing shall not affect the right of any person to receive benefits or
compensation to which he might otherwise be entitled under Chapter 9 of Title 34, Code Section
38-3-30, any pension law, or any act of Congress.
(b) In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 38-3-35(b), no political subdivision of the state nor,
except in cases of willful misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith, the employees, agents, or
representatives of the state or any political subdivision thereof, nor any volunteer or auxiliary
emergency management worker or member of any agency engaged in any emergency
management activity complying with or reasonably attempting to comply with Articles 1 through
3, Chapter 3, Title 38, Official Code of Georgia Annotated; or any order, rule, or regulation
promulgated pursuant to Articles 1 through 3 of title, or pursuant to any ordinance relating to
precautionary measures enacted by any political provisions of Articles 1 through 3 of said
chapter and title, or pursuant to any ordinance relating to precautionary measures enacted by any
political subdivision of the state shall be liable for the death of or the injury to person or for
damage to property as a result of any such activity.
(c) It is the express intent of the parties that the immunities specified in accordance with
O.C.G.A. § 38-3-35 shall apply in addition to any other immunity provided by statutory or case
law.
ARTICLE VII
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 38-3-30(a), whenever the employees of any Assisting Party or
political subdivision are rendering outside aid pursuant to this Agreement and the authority
contained in Code Section 38-3-27, the employees shall have the same powers, duties, rights,
privileges and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the political subdivisions in
which they are normally employed.
ARTICLE VIII
REIMBURSEMFNT
In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 38-3-30(b), the Requesting Party shall be liable for any Loss of or
damage to equipment used or placed within the jurisdiction of the Requesting Party and shall pay
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any expense incurred in the operation and maintenance thereof. No claim for the loss, damage or
expense shall be allowed unless, within 60 days after the same is sustained or incurred, an
itemized notice of the claim under oath is served by mail or otherwise upon the designated fiscal
officer of the Requesting Party. Appendix B of this Agreement shall contain the name(s) of the
Participating Party's designated fiscal officer for purposes of this Agreement. Appendix B can
be amended by the authorizing Participating Party as needed with no effect on the entire
Agreement. All such amendments to Appendix B shall be done in writing and the Participating
Party shall notify GEMA/HS and all other Participating Parties of such amendment within thirty
(30) days.
The Requesting Party shall also pay and reimburse the Assisting Party for the compensation paid
to employees furnished by the Assisting Party during the time of the rendition of the aid, as well
as the actual travel and per diem expenses of such employees while they are rendering the aid.
The reimbursement shall include any amounts paid or due for compensation due to personal
injury or death while the employees are engaged in rendering the aid. The term "employee," as
used herein, shall mean, and this provision shall apply with equal effect to, paid, volunteer and
auxiliary employees and emergency management workers. Expenses that are to be reimbursed
by the Requesting Party shall include the following:
(1) Labor costs, which shall include all usual wages, salaries, compensation for hours
worked, mobilization and demobilization, the Assisting Party's portion of payroll taxes (as
employer), insurance, accrued paid leave and other fringe benefits, but not those amounts paid or
due as a benefit to the Assisting Party's personnel under the terms of the Georgia Workers
Compensation Act; and
(2) Equipment costs, which shall include the fair rental value, the cost of fuel and other
consumable supplies, service and repairs. If the equipment is damaged while in use under this
Agreement and the Assisting Party receives payment for such damage under any contract for
insurance, the Requesting Party may deduct such payment from any item or items invoiced; and
(3) Material costs, which shall include the total reasonable cost for the use and consumption
of any and all consumable supplies delivered by the Assisting Party for the benefit of the
Requesting Party; and
(4) Meals, lodging and other related expenses, which shall include charges for meals, lodging
and other expenses relating to the provision of assistance pursuant to this Agreement shall be the
actual and reasonable costs incurred by the Assisting Party.
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The Assisting Party shall maintain records and submit invoices within 60 days for
reimbursement as specified hereinabove and the Requesting Party shall pay the invoice no later
than 30 days following the invoice date.
ARTICLE IX
IMPLEMENTATION
This Agreement shall become operative immediately upon its approval and execution by
GEMA/HS and any two political subdivisions of this State; thereafter, this Agreement shall
become effective as to any other political subdivision of this State upon its approval and
execution by such political subdivision.
Any Participating Party may withdraw from this Agreement by mailing notice of withdrawal,
approved by the governing authority of such political subdivision, but no such withdrawal shall
take effect until 30 days after the governing authority of the withdrawing political subdivision
has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to the governing authorities of all other
Participating Parties. Such action shall not relieve the withdrawing political subdivision from
obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal.
Copies of this Agreement shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each of the
respective Participating Parties and with GEMA/HS.
ARTICLE X
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
This Agreement, once executed, is valid until March 1, 2020. Agreement of the Participating
Parties to extend the term of this Agreement at any time during the last year of its original term
or the last year of any subsequent four-year term shall extend the term of this Agreement for four
years. Each four-year extension shall constitute a separate agreement.
ARTICLE XI
VALIDITY
If any provision of this Agreement is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any
person or circumstances is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this Agreement
and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
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Agreed:
Jason l3gierman, Mayor Alb rt J. Scott hairman
City of Tybee Island Chatham County Board of Commission
Date: i / • / a L
Attest:
C. Clerk
Approved as to form:
Edward M. es
City Atto..ey
earns ones, 1 hector
Chatham Emergency Management Agency
Date: r / 2'- / 1(P
Date:04 / t// Z0f6
yCmes Butterworth, Director
Georgia Emergency Management Agency/
Homeland Security
Date:
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APPENDIX A
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES
The below named individual(s), in addition to the chief executive officer, is/are the "Authorized
Representative(s)" for the City of Tybee Island, Chatham County, Georgia, and are authorized to
request, offer, or otherwise provide and coordinate mutual aid assistance on behalf of the City of
Tybee Island:
ROBERT BRYSON
DENNIS JONES
IG e OF ABOVE INDIVIDUAL
OFFICER - Signature
CHIEF OF POLICE
FIRE CHIEF
CEMA DIRECTOR
Date: S / n / ec
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APPENDIX B
DESIGNATED FISCAL OFFICER(S)
The below named individual(s) is/are the "designated fiscal officer(s)" for the City of Tybee
Island, Chatham County, Georgia for the purpose of reimbursement sought for mutual aid:
ANGELA HUDSON
SIGNAOF ABOVE INDIVIDUAL
TODD
SIGNA
£VE INDIVIDUAL
XECUTIVE OFFICER - Signature
FINANCE DIRECTOR
IT MANAGER
Date: -f / ,i l It
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LOCAL EMERGENCY AND DISASTER MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, a need for mutual aid agreements between the counties, cities, authorities and private agencies in
Georgia has been recognized; and
WHEREAS, authority for such agreements can be found in O.C.G.A. § 38-3-29 and Chatham County Emergency
Management Code § 4-304.1.c.
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that the CHATHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS and the CITY
OF TYBEE ISLAND adopt this Emergency and Disaster Mutual Aid Agreement.
Definitions: The following definitions shall apply throughout this agreement:
Agreement: "Agreement" means the Emergency and Disaster Mutual Aid Agreement.
Assisting Local Agency: "Assisting Local Agency" means the Participating Local Agency furnishing
equipment, services, personnel or other aid pursuant to this agreement.
Disaster: "Disaster" means any natural, technological or civil emergency, or threat thereof that causes
damage or has the potential to cause damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration
of a state of emergency by a county, city, the Governor, or the President of the United States.
Emergency: `Emergency" means any occurrence, or threat thereof, whether natural, or caused by man, in
war or in peace, which results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial
damage to or loss of property.
Emergency Management Director: "Emergency Management Director" means the person appointed by the
County Commission to implement the Emergency Management Program for Chatham County.
Participating Local Agency: "Participating Local Agency" means a county, city, authority or private agency
that has duly enacted this agreement.
Receiving Local Agency: "Receiving Local Agency" means the Participating Local Agency requesting
equipment, services, personnel or other aid pursuant to this agreement.
2.
Term: This agreement begins on the date executed by the parties and continues for one year. This
agreement shall automatically renew for an additional one-year period unless any party provides written
notice of an intention not to renew within 30 days of the expiration date.
3. Basic Agreement: Any Participating Local Agency requested to render mutual aid or requested to
participate in exercises and training for mutual aid pursuant to this agreement shall take such action as is
necessary to provide and make available the resources covered by this Agreement in accordance with the
terms hereof; provided that it is understood that the Participating Party who is asked to render aid may
withhold resources to the extent necessary to meet the current or anticipated needs of the Participating
Party's own political subdivision to remain in compliance with such Participating Party's policy, rule or law.
4 Procedure: In the event of any emergency or disaster, a senior official (Chief, Department Head or above)
of a Participating Local Agency may request assistance through a senior official of another Participating
Local Agency or the Emergency Management Director. The provisions of this agreement shall only apply
to requests for assistance made by and to senior officials or the Emergency Management Director.
Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the request shall be confirmed in writing within ten days of
the verbal request.
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5. Rights and Duties: Each Participating Local Agency shall afford to the employees of any other
Participating Local Agency, while operating within its jurisdiction under the terms and conditions of this
agreement, the same powers (except that of arrest, unless specifically authorized by the Receiving Local
Agency), duties, rights, privileges and immunities as are afforded employees of the Receiving Local Agency
in which they are performing emergency services. Employees of the Assisting Local Agency will continue
under the command and control of their regular leaders, but, as a group will come under the operational
control of the emergency services authorities of the Receiving Local Agency, unless the Receiving Local
Agency relinquishes such control.
6. Licenses and Permits: Whenever any person holds a license, certificate or other permit issued by the
state, county or other qualified agency evidencing that the individual possesses any required professional,
mechanical, or other skills, such person may be permitted by the Receiving Local Agency to render aid
involving such skill in any other Participating Local Agency to meet an emergency or disaster situation.
7. Compensation: Each Participating Local Agency shall provide for the payment of compensation and death
benefits to injured employees of that County and the representatives of deceased employees in case such
employees sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this agreement, in the same manner
and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own Local Agency.
8. Payment and Reimbursement: In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 38-3-30(b), The Requesting Party shall be
liable for any loss of or damage to equipment used or placed within the jurisdiction of the Requesting Party
and shall pay any expense incurred in the operation and maintenance thereof. No claim for the loss, damage
or expense shall be allowed unless, within 60 days after the same is sustained or incurred, an itemized
notice of the claim under oath is served by mail or otherwise upon the designated fiscal officer of the
Requesting Party.
The Requesting Party shall also pay and reimburse the Assisting Party for the compensation paid to
employees fumished by the Assisting Party during the time of the rendition of the aid, as well as the actual
travel and per diem expenses of such employees while they are rendering the aid. The reimbursement shall
include any amounts paid or due for compensation due to personal injury or death while the employees are
engaged in rendering the aid. The term "employee," as used herein, shall mean, and this provision shall
apply with equal effect to, paid, volunteer and auxiliary employees and emergency management workers.
Expenses that are to be reimbursed by the Requesting Party shall include the following:
(a) Labor costs, which shall include all usual wages, salaries compensation for hours worked,
mobilization and demobilization, the Assisting Party's portion of payroll taxes (as employer),
insurance, accrued paid leave and other fringe benefits, but not those amounts paid or due as a
benefit to the Assisting Parties personnel under the terms of the Georgia Workers Compensation
Act; and
(b) Equipment costs, which shall include the fair rental value, the cost of fuel and other consumable
supplies, service and repairs. If the equipment is damaged while in use under this Agreement and
the Assisting Party receives payment for such damage under any contract for insurance, the
Requesting Party may deduct such payment from any item or items invoiced; and
Material costs, which shall include the total reasonable cost for the use and consumption of any and
all consumable supplies delivered by the Assisting Party for the benefit of the Requesting Party; and
(d) Meals, lodging and other related expenses, which shall include charges for meals, lodging and other
expenses relating to the provision of assistance pursuant to this Agreement shall be the actual and
reasonable costs incurred by the Assisting Party.
(0)
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to or expense of such equipment shall be allowed unless, within 60 days after the same is
sustained or incurred, an itemized notice of the claim under oath is served by mail or otherwise
upon the chief fiscal officer of the Receiving Local Agency.
9. Immunity: Neither an Assisting Local Agency nor, except in cases of willful
misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith, the employees, agents, or representative of any
Assisting Local Agency, nor any unpaid trained personnel or member of any agency engaged in
any emergency management activity pursuant to this agreement, shall be liable for the death of
or injury to person or for damage to property as a result of such activity.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said parties hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals,
the day and year defined below.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of:
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CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA
By:
By:
Chairman
Chatham County Commission
Clerk
Chatham County Commission
CITY OF TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA
, Jason Buelterman
Attest: gra—c-c ,L $ r--_ Witness
Ci Clerk
Approved as to fo MARY LISALSCHAAF
PUBLIC, (NATHAN COUNww, GEORGIA
MY OMISSION EXPIRES:APRIL2, 2019
Edward M. Hughes
City Attorney
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