HomeMy WebLinkAbout1761 ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 1761
A RESOLUTION of the Pasco City Council relating to
hazardous materials incidents response.
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.136 RCW provides enabling legislation
and limitations on liability to municipalities for their
emergency care, assistance or advice in relation to hazardous
materials incidents; and
WHEREAS, Their exists a clear and dangerous potential of
hazardous materials incidents which would endanger the general
health, safety and welfare of the community; and
WHEREAS, The various fire protection agencies in the
Tr-Cities region, including the contiguous areas of Walla Walla,
Benton and Franklin Counties, have attempted over the past three
years to create a single "regional response team" for hazardous
materials incidents and, more recently, have proposed the
creation of a virtually autonomous, non-profit corporation for
the purpose of providing such a "regional response team"; and
WHEREAS, The concept of creating such a separate
corporation for hazardous materials incidents presents a host of
legal, financial and practical questions without sufficient
answers; and
WHEREAS, A long-standing and legally sound means of
establishing and managing regional emergency services exists in
the form of mutual aid agreements; and
WHEREAS, The Pasco City Council finds a separate regional
corporation concept for hazardous materials response to be
unacceptable, and further, finds the growing danger to the public
presented by hazardous materials in the community to be cause to
proceed with all dispatch to establish an appropriate means of
establishing a hazardous materials incidents response
capability; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE PASCO CITY COUNCIL AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby directed and
authorized to inform the interested fire protection agencies in
the Tr-Cities region of the City Council's decision not to
participate in the creation of a single corporation for hazardous
materials incidents response.
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ATT ST:
EVELYN ELLS, City Clerk
ED AS TO F
GRE RUB TELLO, City Attorney
Section 2. That the City Manager is hereby directed and
authorized to attempt to establish a mutual aid arrangement with
neighboring jurisdictions which will provide mutually beneficial
preparation and response standards applicable to hazardous
materials incidents.
Section 3. The Pasco Fire Department is designated as
the hazardous materials incident command agency for the City of
Pasco.
PASSED This 3 day of November, 1986 and APPROVED by
the Mayor.
ELAND F. KRAFT, Mayor Pro Tem