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r-- RESOLUTION NO. 2006 13 A Resolution of The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, 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, 2004 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 BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA that: the National Incident Management System (NIMS) be hereby adopted as its system of preparing for and responding to disaster incidents. The foregoing Resolution was offered by Commissioner Bowden who moved its adoption. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Davi s and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows: Chairman Arthur R. Neuberger Ave Vice Chairman Gary C. Wheeler Ave Commissioner Wesley S. Davis Ave Commissioner Thomas S. Lowther IV_e_ Commissioner Sandra L. Bowden Aye