2005-059
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City of Hopkins
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLU"fION NO. 2005-059
Adopting the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
WHEREAS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive / HSPD-5, 28 Feb 2003
established the National Incident Management System (NIMS); and
WHEREAS, the NIMS establishes a single, comprehensive approach to domestic
incident management to ensure that all levels of government across the Nation have the
capability to work efficiently and effectively together using a national approach to
domestic incident management; and
WHEREAS, the NIMS provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal,
State, and local governments to work together to prepare for and respond to, and recover
from domestic incidents regardless of the cause, size or complexity; and
WHEREAS, the NIMS provides for interoperability and compatibility among
Federal, State and local capabilities and includes a core set of concepts, principles,
terminology and technologies covering the incident command system, unified command,
training, management of resources and reporting; and
WHEREAS, beginning October 1,2005 all Federal departments and agencies
shall make adoption of the NIMS a requirement, to the extent provided by law, for
providing Federal preparedness assistance through grants, contracts or other activities to.
local governments;
NOW THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the City of Hopkins hereby adopts the
National Incident Management System (NIMS) as its system of preparing for and
responding to disaster incidents.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 19th day of July, 2005
BY:~/~
uge J. Maxwell, Mayor
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