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(5) The director shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the City 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. (6) 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 recruited to augment a regular City department or agency for emergencies shall be assigned to such departments or agencies and shall be under the administration and control of said department or agency. (7) Consistent with the state emergency services law, the director shall coordinate the activity of municipal emergency management organizations within the City and assist in establishing and conducting training programs as required to assure emergency operational capability in the several services (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 12, Sec. 12.25, as it may be amended from time to time). (8) The director shall carry out all orders, rules and regulations issued by the Governor with reference to emergency management. (9) The director shall act as principal aide and advisor to the City official responsible for direction and control of all City emergency operations during an emergency. The director's main responsibility is to assure coordination among the operating departments, non - governmental groups, and with higher and adjacent governments. (10) The director shall prepare and submit such reports on emergency preparedness activities as may be requested by the City Council/Mayor. 209.05 LOCAL EMERGENCIES (1) Only the Mayor of a municipality or their legal successors may declare a local emergency. It shall not be continued for a period in excess of three days except by or with the consent of the governing board of the political subdivision. Any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local emergency shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed promptly by the chief of the locals records - keeping agency of the subdivision. (2) A declaration of a local emergency shall invoke necessary portions of the response and recovery aspects of applicable local or inter jurisdictional disaster plans, and may authorize aid and assistance there under. (3) No jurisdictional agency or official may declare a local emergency unless expressly authorized by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an inter- 4