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programs and activities established by the Emergency Operations Advisory Board, develop and maintain City emergency plans and procedures, coordinate training and exercise programs for each City Department and for the City as a whole, and shall constitute a core of Emergency Operations Center staff. The Emergency Operations Committee shall meet monthly and additionally at the direction of the Emergency Operations Advisory Board or upon call of the Emergency Operations Coordinator. H. Adoption of Collaborative Systems and Standards The City of Santa Ana recognizes that a large -scale emergency or disaster may have the potential to overwhelm the commonly available resources and capabilities of the City and may require the combined response of numerous agencies, jurisdictions and levels of government. Therefore, the City participates in the Orange County Operational Area response and recovery organization as provided by California Emergency Services Act Section 8505 and is a signatory to the Orange County Operational Area Agreement. The City adopts the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and the federal National Incident Management System (NIMS) as a basis for emergency plans and response. The framework of these systems includes use of the Incident Command System (ICS), multi- agency and interagency coordination, participation in the Master Mutual Aid Agreement and Systems of the State of California, and the Operational Area concept. The City of Santa Ana will comply with the provisions of the California Emergency Services Act, Section 5. Section 2 -403 of Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: Sec. 2 -403. Emergency Operations Plan. The Emergency Operations Committee shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of the City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and related annexes or manuals. The EOP shall provide for the effective mobilization of all the resources of the City, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency, and shall provide forthe organization, duties and functions, and procedures and capabilities of the City's response to the emergency. Each City Department will supplement the EOP with those Standard Operating Procedures necessary to fulfill their role in an emergency under the EOP. The EOP shall comply with the principles of the Orange County Operational Area Agreement, the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and the federal National Incident Management System (NIMS). The Emergency Operations Advisory Board shall be responsible to review and recommend adoption of the EOP to City Council, and to implement the requirements of the Plan once adopted. City Council shall review and adopt the Plan by resolution as a policy of the City. Once adopted, the Plan shall be mandatory upon City departments and agencies, employees and registered volunteer emergency workers and shall have the effect of law whenever an emergency has been proclaimed as provided in this Division. to 50A -12