RESOLUTION (resolution number )

	The insert government entity name  met in regular session at the insert location on insert date with the following members present:  insert members present

				  made a motion to adopt the following Resolution: 

RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE NATIONAL INCIDENT 
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS)

	WHEREAS, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5), Management of Domestic Incidents, on February 28, 2003, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop, submit for review to the Homeland Security Council, and administer a National Incident Management System (NIMS); and

	WHEREAS, NIMS will provide a consistent nationwide approach allowing federal, state, local and tribal governments to work effectively and efficiently to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents: and

	WHEREAS, the Department of Homeland Security has sought extensive input on NIMS from state, local and tribal officials, the emergency response community, and the private sector and has incorporated the best practices currently in use by incident managers; and

	WHEREAS, effective homeland security incident management involves new concepts, processes, and protocols that will require refinement over time. The collective input and guidance from all homeland security partners has been, and will continue to be, vital to the further development of an effective and comprehensive national incident management system; and 

	WHEREAS, NIMS was published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2004; and

	WHEREAS, HSPD-5 and NIMS require all federal departments and agencies to adopt NIMS and use it in domestic incident management and emergency prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs and activities, as well as to assist state, local, or tribal entities; and

	WHEREAS, HSPD-5 and NIMS require federal departments and agencies to make state, tribal and local organizations adopt NIMS as a condition for federal preparedness assistance beginning in federal FY 2005.

	NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the insert Government body name and location by authority of Chapter 504 of the Ohio Revised Code, as follows:
	
SECTION 1:	That all departments of the Township shall utilize the National Incident Management System (NIMS) prescribed by the Department of Homeland Security.

SECTION 2:	That the insert Government body name directs all departments to train their personnel on the NIMS and to update the insert Government body name Integrated Emergency Management Plan. 

SECTION 3:	The Board does hereby dispense with the requirement that this Resolution be read on two separate days, pursuant to Section 504.10 of the Ohio Revised Code, and authorizes the adoption of this Resolution upon its first reading.

SECTION 4:	That this Board hereby finds and determines that all formal actions relative to the passage of this Resolution were taken in an open meeting of this Board, and that all deliberations of this Board and of its Committees, if any, which resulted in formal action, were taken in meetings open to the public, in full compliance with applicable legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.
	
SECTION 5:	This Resolution shall take effect at the earliest period allowed by law.

First Reading:					
		Second Reading:				
		Effective:					

	  		  seconded the motion to adopt the Resolution.  On the roll call being called the vote resulted as follows:

					Trustee name		AYE
					Trustee name		AYE
					Trustee name		AYE

Resolution (resolution number ) adopted Date

ATTEST:


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Clerk Name, Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:


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Law Director,
Township Law Director

CERTIFICATION

I, Clerk Name, Clerk of Township, do hereby certify that the foregoing is taken and copied from the Record of the Proceedings of Township; that the same has been compared by me with the Resolution of said Record and that it is a true and correct copy thereof.


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