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management and to plan for their most efficient use of time in an emergency or disaster. C. The Director shall prepare a comprehensive emergency plan for the emergency preparedness of the City and shall present such plan to the Council for its approval. When the Council has approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all City agencies and all emergency preparedness forces of the City to perform the duties and functions assigned by the plan as approved. The plan may be modified in like manner from time to time. The Director shall coordinate the emergency management activities of the City to the end that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the emergency plan of the Federal Government and the State and correlated with emergency plans of other political subdivisions within the State. D. In accordance with the State and County Emergency Plan, the Director shall institute such training programs, public information programs and conduct practice warning alerts and emergency exercises as may be necessary to assure prompt and effective operation of the City Emergency Plan when a disaster occurs. E. The Director shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the county to the maximum extent practicable. The officers and personnel of all such departments and agencies shall, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate with and extend such services and facilities to the City Emergency Management organization and to the Governor upon request. The head of each department or agency in cooperation with the director shall be responsible for the planning and programming of such emergency activities as will involve the utilization of the facilities of the department or agency. F. The Director shall, in cooperation with existing City departments and agencies affected, assist in the organizing, recruiting and training of such emergency management personnel, that may be required on a volunteer basis to carry out the emergency plans of the City and State. To the extent that such emergency personnel are recruited to augment a regular City department or agency for emergencies, they shall be assigned to such departments or agencies and shall be under the administration and control of said department or agency. G. Consistent with the State emergency services law, the Director shall coordinate the activities of municipal emergency management organizations within the county and assist in establishing and conducting training programs as required to assure emergency operational capability in the several services (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 12, Section 12.25). H. The Director shall carry out all orders, rules and regulations issued by the Governor with reference to emergency management. Page 46