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An Ordinance to Amend the Code of the City of Ann Arbor by Adding a New Chapter, Which New Chapter Shall be Designated as Chapter 25, Cost Recovery for Hazardous Material Response and Technical Rescue Services (Ordinance No. ORD15-17)
Memorandum
The proposed new chapter to the City Code would implement the means for recovering costs incurred for Hazardous Material and Technical Rescue Emergency Services.
The language of Chapter 25, Cost Recovery for Hazardous Material Response and Technical Rescue Services, includes two articles:[Article I - Hazardous Material and Article II - Technical Rescue Services] which will allow the means for the City to recover costs incurred onto the City for hazardous material or technical rescue emergency incidents. These articles will permit the City to redirect the costs to the responsible party(s) of such incidents requiring additional or outside emergency expertise in mitigating hazards, saving lives, or providing safer environments for its community.
Associated costs of specialty incidents occurring within the City's jurisdiction are the City's responsibility. With the merging of the City of Ann Arbor Fire Department's hazardous material and technical rescue specialty teams with the Washtenaw County specialty teams, these specialty incident costs have increased due to the need of requesting County specialty teams to respond and assist in handling such emergency incidents occurring within the City.
The City is a participating public agency in the Washtenaw County Hazardous Material Authority. The Authority was created to assist local fire department by providing on-scene support in the confinement/containment of environmentally dangerous chemical releases and to provide hazardous rescue when possible. Under the terms of Agreement between the Participating Agencies and the Authority, the City has an affirmative obligation to adopt a cost recovery ordinance. Until the adoption of the necessary ordinance ...
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