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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution #4053 - execution of law enforcement mutual aid agreement and the existence and formation of illinois law enforcement alarm system by intergovernmental cooperation RESOLUTION NO. 4053 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT AND THE EXISTENCE AND FORMATION OF THE ILLINOIS LAW ENFORCEMENT ALARM SYSTEM BY INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION WHEREAS, the City of Canton, Illinois (hereinafter"City") is a municipal corporation of the State of Illinois and duly constituted public agency of the State of Illinois, and; WHEREAS, the City, as a public agency of the State of Illinois, is authorized and empowered by the Constitution of the State of Illinois (Ill. Const. Art. VII§ 10) and the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act(5 ILC S 200/1 et seq.) to enter into intergovernmental agreements with other public agencies on matters of mutual concern and interest such as the provision of adequate law enforcement personnel and resources for the protection of residents and property falling within the jurisdiction of the City, and; WHEREAS, the City recognizes that certain natural or man-made occurrences may result in emergencies or disasters that exceed the resources, equipment, and/or law enforcement personnel of a single given public agency, and; WHEREAS, a given public agency can, by entering into a mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources, effectively provide a broader range and more plentiful amount of law enforcement capability for the citizenry which it serves, and; WHEREAS, in order to have an effective mutual aid agreement for law enforcement resources and services, this City recognizes it must be prepared to come to the aid of other public agencies in their respective times of need due to emergencies or disasters, and; WHEREAS, this City recognizes the need for our specific City to develop an effective mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources upon which it may call upon in its time of need and is prepared to enter into a mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources with other like-minded public agencies, and; WHEREAS, this City also recognizes the need for the existence of a public agency, formed by an intergovernmental agreement between two or more public agencies, which can serve to coordinate and facilitate the provision of law enforcement mutual aid between signatory public agencies to a mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources, and; WHEREAS, this City has been provided with a certain "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement"which has been reviewed by the elected officials of this City and which other public agencies in the State of Illinois are prepared to execute, in conjunction with this City, in order to provide and receive law enforcement mutual aid services as set forth in the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement", and; WHEREAS, it is the anticipation and intention of this City that this "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement"will be executed in counterparts as other public agencies choose to enter into the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement" and strengthen the number of signatory public agencies and resources available from those public agencies, and; WHEREAS, it is the anticipation and intent of this City that the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement"will continue to garner support and acceptance from other currently unidentified public agencies who will enter into the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement"over time and be considered as if all signatory public agencies to the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement"the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement" at the same time. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Canton, Illinois as follows: 1. That this Resolution shall be known as, and may hereafter be referred to as, the Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement and the Existence and Formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System by Intergovernmental Cooperation. 2. The Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement and the Existence and Formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System by Intergovernmental Cooperation shall be, and hereby is, enacted as follows: a) Authorization to enter into a Certain Agreement. The Mayor of the City is hereby authorized to sign, execute, and deliver the agreement known as the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement" and thereby enter into an intergovernmental agreement with other such public agencies of the State of Illinois as are likewise willing to enter into said "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement" and recognize the existence and formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System as set forth in the said "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement". b) Saving Clause. If any section, paragraph, clause, or provision of this Resolution shall be held invalid, the invalidity thereof shall not affect any of the provisions of this Resolution. c) Effective Date: This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law. PASSED this lst day April, 2014 AYES: Aldermen Pasley,Lovell, Ellis,Justin Nelson, Pickel,Jim Nelson, Putrich, West NAYS: None ABSENT: None �, r.� Ma or ffrey . Fritz Attest: C Cl ia a Pav ey-Rock Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement This Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement (LEMAA) is executed, in multiple counterparts, by the Public Agency shown on last page hereof on the date that is set forth on the last page of this LEMAA for the uses and purposes set forth herein. Whereas, the undersigned Public Agency of the State of Iliinois does hereby declare that it is in the best interest of the Signatory Public Agency to make provision for law enforcement Mutual Aid in the event the undersigned Public Agency should need law enforcement Mutual Aid, and; Whereas, the undersigned Public Agency of the State of Illinois recognizes that law enforcement Mutual Aid is only effective if those Public Agencies who could potentially benefit from law enforcement Mutual Aid are willing to provide law enforcement Mutual Aid to other Public Agencies who are willing to enter into a Mutual Aid agreement such as this Mutual Aid agreement, and; Whereas, in the State of Illinois, there exist constitutional and statutory provisions enabling and supporting the formation of intergovemmental agresments on matters such as law enforcement Mutual Aid, towit, the Constitution of the State of Illinois (III. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.), the Local Govemmental and Govemmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (745 ILCS 10/7- 101 et seq.) and the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5/11-1-2.1), and; Whereas, in order to have an effective law enforcement Mutual Aid system, it is necessary and desirable to have a third party entity that can support, centralize, coordinate and organize the provision of law enforcement Mutual Aid by and among Signatory Public Agencies to the law enforcement Mutual Aid agreement, and; Whereas, this LEMAA is made in recognition of the fact that natural or man-made occurrences may result in Emergencies or Disasters that exceed the resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel of a given Public Agency; each Public Agency which signs a copy of this LEMAA intends to aid and assist the other participating Public Agencies during an Emergency or Disaster by temporarily assigning some of the Responding Public Agency's resources, equipment and/or law enforcement personnel to the Requesting Public Agency as circumstances permit and in accordance with the terms of this LEMAA; the specific intent of this LEMAA being to safeguard the lives, persons and property of citizens of the State of Illinois during an Emergency or Disaster by enabling other Public Agencies to provide additional resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel as needed, and; Gaw Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement � Page 2 of 23 Whereas, since approximately 2002, there has existed in the State of Illinois an Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System law enforcement Mutual Aid agreement ("Prior Mutual Aid Agreement") which .was initially executed by a multitude of signatory parties in the wake of the events of the 911 terrorist attacks and (even though the needs of law enforcement have changed, grown and advanced in various regards) the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement has never been updated, modifisd or changed since its inception, it is now the desire of the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA to enhance and reaffirm its commitment to law enforcement Mutual Aid in the State of Illinois while providing more particularity to the relationship that exists between each of the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and the third party agency, the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System, created by such Signatory Public Agencies, Now, therefore, the undersigned Public Agency, does hereby enter into this LEMAA with each and every other Public Agency which signs a counterpart copy of this LEMAA and agrees and contracts as follows: 1. Definitlons. The following definitions apply to this Mutual Aid Agreement (the plural version of any defined term meaning finro or more instances of the defined term): a. Disaster — An occurrence, or the reasonable threat or possibility of an occurrence of, any of the following: widespread or severe damage; injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or technological cause, including but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, windstorm, tomado, hurricane, severe inclement weather, hazardous materials spill or other water or ground contamination requiring prompt action to avert danger or damage; epidemics, contaminations, blight, extended periods of severe and inclement weather, drought, infestation and critical shortages of essential products, fuels and energy; explosion; riot; significant or large scale civil insurrection or disobedience; hostile military or paramilitary action, or; acts of domestic terrorism. b. Emergency — A natural or man-made situation that threatens to cause, or causes, loss of life and/or property and exceeds the physical and/or organizational response capabilities of a unit of local, state or federal govemment. c. Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (or the abbreviation "ILEAS") —the third party Public Agency formed by Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA, or continued from the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement, to promote and facilitate law enforcement Mutual Aid in the State of Illinois, and; d. Initial Goveming Board — The first Governing Board of ILEAS established after fin+o or more Public Agencies enter into this LEMAA. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 3 of 23 e. Law Enforcement Personnel — An employee of a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA who is a law enforcement officer, county corrections officer or court security officer, as defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Police Training Act(50 ILCS 705/2). f. LEMAA—This agreement. g. Mutual Aid — Assistance provided by a Public Agency to another Public Agency pursuant to a definite and prearranged written agreement in the event of an Emergency or Disaster. h. Prior Mutual Aid Agreement — a certain Mutual Aid Agreement having initial signatories in 2002 (with other signatory parties beginning their participation at a time later than the initial signatory parties) and which reflects a document modification date of °October 23, 2002" in the footer of the signature page (page 5). i. Prior Signatory Public Agency — A Public Agency which executed the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement and has neither terminated its participation in the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement nor entered into this LEMAA. i. Public Agency — Such units of government as are defined as a public agency by the• Illinois Intergovemmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/2(1)). j. Requesfrng Public Agency — A Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA that has primary jurisdiction over the site of an Emergency or Disaster which, due to its perceived insufficient resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel, would be unable to provide an adequate response to an Emergency or Disaster without the assistance of others. k. Responding Public Agency — A Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA that provides resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel to a Requesting Public Agency during an Emergency or Disaster. I. Signatory Public Agency — a Public Agency that has executed this LEMAA by signature of an authorized individual for the Public Agency under the authority of the Constitution of the State of Illinois (III. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.) and the final approval required of the Public Agency in order to execute the LEMAA. 2. Agreement to Particlpate In Law Enforcement Mutual Ald. The Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that, in the event of an Emergency or Disaster, it will respond to requests for assistance by a Requesting Public Agency with such Law Enforcement Personnel, equipment, resources, facilities, or services as are, in the opinion of the Responding Public Agency, Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 4 of 23 available and useful and being requested by a Requesting Public Agency. Possible respanses shall include, but not be limited to, merely being on "stand by," providing the benefit of prior experience or consultation and/or actual "hands-on" participation in law enforcement activities in the jurisdiction of the Requesting Public Agency any one of which may also entail the provision of equipment, resources, facilities or other services. Provided, however, that each Responding Public Agency reserves the right to refuse to render assistance or to recall any or all rendered assistance, whenever it believes that such refusal or recall is necessary to ensure adequate protection of its own jurisdiction's property, citizenry or personnel. It is expected that requests for Mutual Aid under this Agreement will be initiated only when the needs of the Requesting Public Agency exceed its resources. Responding Public Agencies' resources will be released and retumed to their own respective jurisdictions by the Requesting Public Agency as soon as the situation is restored to the point where the Requesting Public Agency is able to satisfactorily handle the emergency or disaster with its own resources or when a Responding Public Agency decides to recall its assistance. Whenever an Emergency or Disaster is of such magnitude and consequence that it is deemed advisable by the highest-ranking officer present of the Requesting Public Agency to request assistance from a Responding Public Agency, he is hereby authorized to do so under the terms of this LEMAA. The highest-ranking officer present of the Responding Public Agency is authorized to, and shall forthwith take, the following actions: � • Immediately determine what type of assistance is being requested. • Immediately determine if the requested resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel can be committed to the Requesting Public Agency. • Immediately dispatch, in consultation and coordination with the ILEAS dispatcher, the resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel that are available to the Requesting Public Agency. At the Emergency or Disaster site, the highest-ranking officer of the Requesting Public Agency who is present shall assume full responsibility and command for operations at the scene. Law Enforcement Personnel from the Responding Public Agencies shall report to, and shall work under, the direction and supervision of the Requesting Public Agency. Provided, however, that at all times, the personnel of the Responding Public Agency shall remain employees of their own agency and shall adhere to the policies and procedures of their own employer. While working under the direction of the Requesting Public Agency, Law Enforcement Personnel shall only be required to respond to lawful orders. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 5 of 23 All equipment provided or services performed under this LEMAA shall be provided without reimbursement to the Responding Public Agency from the Requesting Public Agency. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a Responding Public Agency or ILEAS from seeking reimbursement or defrayment of any expenses it may have incurred in responding to a Mutuai Aid request from other sources. The Requesting Public Agency agrees to cooperate with any effort to seek reimbursement or defrayment of Mutual Aid expenses on the part of Responding Public Agencies or ILEAS. All Requesting Public Agencies, Responding Public Agencies and ILEAS are required to keep expense and accounting records to identify the costs and expenses of any Mutual Aid provided under this LEMAA. Each Responding Public Agency shall assume sole responsibility for insuring or indemnifying its own employees, as provided by state, federal law and/or local ordinance, and for providing personnel benefits, including beneflts that arise due to injury or death, to their own employees as required by state or federal law just as if the employee would have been working as an employee of the Responding Public Agency in its own home jurisdiction. Each Responding Public Agency shall also be responsible, regardless of fault, for replacing or repairing any damage to its own vehicles or equipment that occurs while providing assistance under this LEMAA. The Requesting Public Agency agrees that this LEMAA shall not give rise to any liability or responsibility for the failure of any other Signatory Public Agency to respond to any request for assistance made pursuant to this LEMAA. Each Responding Public Agency under this LEMAA further agrees that each Responding Public Agency will be responsible for defending itself in any action or dispute that arises in connection with, or as the result of, this LEMAA and that each Responding Public Agency will be responsible for bearing its own costs, damages, losses, expenses and attomey fees. 3. The Illtnois Law Enforcement Alarm System. By agreement by and between each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA, there is and was formed and exists a third party Public Agency, created by the Signatory Public Agency parties to this LEMAA and by virtue of this LEMAA, which shall be known as the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (hereinafter referred to as "ILEAS°). The following provisions apply to ILEAS: a. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have a governing board, consistent with the meaning of the phrase "goveming board" in 5 ILCS 220/2(1), which shall be known as the "Governing Board." 1. Goveming Board Composition and Voting. The Governing Board of ILEAS shall consist of the following individual Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement ' Page 6 of 23 members, described as follows: (a). Members of the Initial Governing Board — The individuals designated on Exhibit A will be members of the Initial Goveming Board of ILEAS and shall serve until such time as their successors are elected or appointed, as the case may be. (b). Composition of the Goveming Boards of ILEAS after the Initial Goveming Board members have served their term shall be as follows, who shall serve until such time as their successors are elected or appointed, as the case may be: • 16 elected members representing eight (8) established ILEAS regions — there shall be one elected Sheriff member and one elected Chief of Police member from each of the eight (8) established ILEAS regions and the elected Sheriff member and the elected Chief of Police member shall be designated as the °Co-Chairs" from that region; • a permanent, non-elective Governing Board membership for the Illinois State Police Director or the Director's designee, • a permanent, non-elective Goveming Board membership for the President of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police or that President's designee, • a permanent, non-elective Goveming Board membership for the President of the Iilinois Sheriff's Association or that President's designee. • two permanent, non-elective Goveming Board memberships for the City of Chicago, Illinois or those persons designated by the Superintendent of Police, Chicago, Illinois. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph (b), no Public Agency shall be permitted to designate (as a candidate for election or appointment) a Goveming Board Member unless that Law Enforcement Mutual Aid.�qreement Page 7 of 23 Public Agency is a Signatory Public Agency and every Goveming Board Member must be affiliated by employment with, or relation to, a Signatory Public Agency. The President of ILEAS, with the advice and consent of the Goveming Board of ILEAS, may appoint any number of Ex-Officio Goveming Board consultants for the benefit of obtaining their counsel and advice but such individuals, if any, as are appointed to Ex-Ofticio Goveming Board consultant positions shall not have any voting rights on matters to be decided by the Goveming Board and, relative to the Board, are not agents or servants of the Goveming Boar�i, ILEAS or any Signatory Public Agency. (c). Members of Goveming Boards of ILEAS after the Initial Governing Board — For purposes of determining the elected members of the Goveming Board after the Initial Goveming Board, the State of Illinois shall be divided into eight (8) regions which are shown on Exhibit B hereto. Any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA may nominate any one or more eligible individuals from its region as a candidate for Goveming Board membership, including an individual employed by the Signatory Public Agency. Only Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA may vote for representatives to be elected from their region. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA gets one vote for an elected Sheriff member and one vote for an elected Chief of Police member from its region. Starting in 2015, the election of Goveming Board members shall occur every two years in March of the year on a date to be determined by the Goveming Board members in office in the October prior to the date of the election. Should a given Governing Board member vote result in a tie between candidates, the two or more candidates with the same highest number of votes shall participate in a "coin toss" selection process to determine who shall fill that Goveming Board member position. (d). In the event that an elected Goveming Board member dies, retires, resigns, is no longer employed by his employer in the same capacity as at the time of his Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement � Page 8 of 23 election or is otherwise unwilling or unable to serve the balance of that member's term, then a repiacement Goveming Board member from the same region as the Goveming Board member being replaced shall be chosen by the remaining Goveming Board member from that Region and shall serve until the next Goveming Board member vote. If both Goveming Board members from a given Region are no longer in office at the same time, then, by majority vote of the remaining Goveming Board members still holding oifice, two replacements shall be chosen from that same Region (in individual, separate votes) and shall serve until the next Goveming Board member vote. The replacement Goveming Board member shall be a Sheriff if a Sheriff is being replaced and shall be a Chief of Police if a Chief of Police is being replaced. (e) Matters before the Goveming Board for decision shall be decided by majority vote of a quorum of the voting members. A quorum for the conducting of the business of the Goveming Board shall be estabiished by the Bylaws promulgated by the Goveming Board. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the establishment of committees or subcommittees of the whole for the conduct of business as expressed in the Bylaws promulgated by the Governing Board. 2. Governing Board to Promulgate a Plan of Operation. The Goveming Board shall cause to be promulgated a Plan of Operation for the giving and receiving of Mutual Aid under the provisions of the LEMAA and shall promulgate Bylaws for the management of ILEAS. Both the Plan of Operation and Bylaws may be modified from time to time based upon the majority vote of the then current members of the Goveming Board. 3. Goveming Board Compensation. Ail officers, members and ex-o�cio members of the Goveming Board shall serve without compensation. 4. Regional Goveming Boards. In each of the Regions, in addition to the co-chairs for that region, there may be elected a secretary, treasurer and sergeant at arms for that Region as well as any number of ex-o�cio members as that Region Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 9 of 23 deslres. b. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Sergeant at Arms who shall be appointed by and from the Governing Board of ILEAS, at its discretion. The officers shail have the duties, responsibilities and powers accorded to them by the Bylaws of ILEAS as the Bylaws are established and may be amended from time to time by the Goveming Board. c. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have an Executive Director, appointed by the Goveming Board at its discretion, who shall be the chief operating officer of ILEAS and who shail have the duties, responsibilities and powers accorded to the Executive Director by the Bylaws of ILEAS as the Bylaws are established and may be amended from time to time by the Goveming Board. d. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have the authority, right and power to: 1. coordinate law enforcement Mutual Aid responses by and among Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and act as a central receiving point for Mutual Aid requests; 2. solicit and receive commitments from Signatory Public Agencies to respond to a Mutual Aid request and coordinate and provide support for any legal documentation necessary or desirable to effectuate the provision of law enforcement Mutual Aid; 3. maintain an electronic mutual aid database to which all Signatory Public Agencies provide information related to each respective Signatory Public Agency's manpower, resources and equipment necessary to respond to a Mutual Aid request and to which all Signatory Public Agencies have access; 4. identify through the mutual aid database individuals from Signatory Public Agencies with the ability, training and qualifications suitable for Mutual Aid responses, together with the necessary equipment and other resources as requested by the Requesting Public Agency; 5. coordinate and provide a facility for training exercises and education; 6. solicit, obtain and administer funds for the operations and functions of ILEAS and the provision of law enforcement Law Enforcement Mutual Aid�greement Page 10 of 23 Mutual Aid in the form of grants, donations, endowments or allocations of funds from other govemmental agencies or other sources (but not from the issuance of any debt obligations), to assess Board-approved dues on Signatory Public Agencies and to obtain reimbursement, payment, advances or funds from any governmental entity or agency which provides, allocates or administers funds to defray, pay or reimburse the expenses of those entities participating in Mutual Aid efforts; 7. provide accounting, budgeting, estimation, documentation, archival and general administrative support for law enforcement Mutual Aid depioyments (actual, planned, proposed or contemplated) and the general operations of ILEAS; 8. obtain indemnity, casualty, liability and worker's compensation insurance for the operations of ILEAS in amounts and under terms deemed appropriate by the Goveming Board; 9. employ support personnel to perForm the functions and operations of ILEAS; 10. enter into.contracts, agreements, purchase agreements and leases necessary to the functions and operations of ILEAS; 11. provide and display identification, signage, insignias, patches or other indicia which identify ILEAS employees and agents if and when such employees and/or agents are on site to coordinate or facilitate disaster and/or emergency relief performed by various Responding Public Agencies; 12. to own, hold, supply, borrow or lend, in ILEAS' name, such personal property as deemed necessary by the Goveming Board to the purposes, functions and operations of ILEAS; 13. facilitate, enhance or enable interagency cornmunication relative to the provision of Mutual Aid; 14. provide to Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA such information as is useful to them relative to what resources are available from ILEAS or other Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA ; 15. maintain a listing or database of available equipment, available animals and alleged independent contractor Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 11 of 23 experts in various �elds that would serve as a resource to ILEAS and any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA which listing would be made available to such Signatory Public Agencies with the understanding on the part of the requesting Signatory Public Agency that ILEAS: (a) does not represent, provide, recommend or warrant to any Signatory Public Agency the appropriateness, integrity, quality, or qual'rfications of any listed resource, equipment or animal for a given use (such determination to be made solely by the requesting Signatory Public Agency), and; (b) does not fumish, employ, provide, retain or have as its agent, any alleged expert whose contact information is provided to the Signatory Public Agency, such alleged expert being solely an independent contractor and, further, does not represent, recommend or warrant to any Signatory Public Agency the appropriateness, integrity, training, quality or qualifications of any alleged expert (such determinations to be made solely by the requesting Signatory Public Agency), and; (c) relative to any animal, does not represent, recommend or warrant to any Signatory Public Agency the appropriateness, training, behavioral characteristics, quality or qualifications of any animal for a given use (such determination to be made solely by the requesting Signatory Public Agency). 16. engage in such other activities as support, enhance or enable Mutual Aid by and between the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA. e. It is not the function, responsibility or purpose of ILEAS to warrant or endorse the sufficiency or talents of, deploy, supply, direct, command or manage any Law Enforcement Personnel responding to Mutual Aid requests under this LEMAA. Any Law Enforcement Personnel responding to a law enforcement Mutual Aid request under this LEMAA shall be Law Enforcement Personnel of a Responding Public Agency (and not of ILEAS) and shall take their orders from commanding officers of either the requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agency, as otherwise detailed in this LEMAA. In general, ILEAS' function in a Mutual Aid deployment is to receive the Mutual Aid request, identify and contact Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement � Page 12 of 23 appropriate potential responding Signatory Public Agency responders, obtain commitments from such potential Signatory Public Agency responders that they wiil respond to the Mutual Aid request, identify those Signatory Public Agencies who will respond to the Mutual Aid request of the Requesting Public Agency, provide ILEAS' expertise, services and experience relative to issues associated with Mutual Aid deployments and continue to monitor the adequacy of the Mutual Aid response to be able to respond if the Requesting Public Agency determines more assistance is needed and review the sufficiency of the Mutual Aid response that was made. ILEAS may, in its discretion, establish an on site presence at the Mutual Aid site when the Requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agencies believe such presence is useful to the purposes and functions of ILEAS and/or the Requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agencies. 4. Additional Signatory Publlc Agency Provisions a. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to maintain liability insurance with a Best's rated A- or better insurance company or a self insurance trust fund in the face or indemnity amount of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) which would provide, inter alia, liability coverage for any activities in which the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA might engage under this LEMAA. b. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to provide to ILEAS information about the equipment, resources and personnel of its Public Agency, jurisdictional and regional demographic information, contact information, National Incident Management Systems information and Reception Site Staging inforrnation which may be used by ILEAS to aid in ILEAS' support role under this LEMAA. The Executive Director of ILEAS shall prepare a document, which will be amended from time to time, which requests the information desired and send it to each Signatory Public Agency for completion and update. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that ILEAS may distribute any information obtained by the Executive Director to any other Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA who may request such information for Mutual Aid purposes. c. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that it will not hold itself out as an agent of ILEAS or any Public Agency other than itself and will instruct each of its employees that they are not to hold themselves out as employees or agents of ILEAS or any Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 13 of 23 Public Agency other than the one as to which they are actually agents or employees. Further, each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to monitor the activities of its agents and employees to maintain compliance with this provision of the LEMAA. d. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA understands that, under the Constitution of the State of Illinois (III. Const. Art. VII, §10) and the lilinois Intergovemmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.), IIEAS may only be delegated authority, abilities and powers that the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA has itself. To the extent that a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA does not have legal authority to participate in cooperative law enforcement mutual aid, this LEMAA is void and of no effect relative to such Signatory Public Agency. e. It is the intent of each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA that ILEAS be created with all the powers enumerated herein and without further restrictions on those powers. Therefore, each Signatory Public Agency agrees that, if that Signatory Public Agency is determined to not have the authority or powers that are coextensive with those granted to ILEAS in this LEMAA or it is determined that the Signatory Public Agency is limited in the exercise of its authority or its powers to a greater extent than ILEAS is limited by this LEMAA, rather than limiting the powers of IIEAS, fhat finding will cause the Signatory Public Agency's participation in the creation of ILEAS to be void ab initio and Section 3 of this LEMAA shall not apply to such a Signatory Public Agency. Such a finding will not, however, invalidate the Signatory Public Agency's adoption of this LEMAA for purposes of providing and receiving law enforcement Mutual Aid. f. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA warrants that: 1. It is a Public Agency under the laws of the State of Illinois. 2. It is authorized by the legal process and laws applicable to that Public Agency that it has the full authority and right to enter into this LEMAA. 3. To the extent that it is called upon to provide Law Enforcement Personnel as a Responding Public Agency, the Law Enforcement Personnel the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA provides have been properly credentialed by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to be a law enforcement officer, county corrections officer or court security officer in the State of Illinois and have been trained Law Enforcement Mutua!Aid Agreement ' Page 14 of 23 relative to the types of tasks that the Law Enforcement Personnel will be undertaking relative to the mutuai aid request. 4. To the extent that it is called upon to provide equipment as a Responding Public Agency, the equipment the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA provides is in good working order with no known defects, problems, faults or limitations that would make its use dangerous or impractical. 5. Termination of Participation tn LEMAA a. Any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA has the right to terminate its participation in this LEMAA upon ninety (90) days notice to ILEAS. ILEAS shall notify remaining Signatory Public Agency parties to the LEMAA of the notice of termination. b. To the extent that a Signatory Public Agency incurs an obligation under this LEMAA prior to the expiration of the ninety (90) day notice of termination period, nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted to mean that that Signatory Public Agency should not meet its obligation under this LEMAA. TeRnination is automatically effective upon the expiration of the ninety (90) day period without further action by any party. 6. Non-Member Afflllates a. Definition of Status — A non-member affiliate of ILEAS is an incorporeal entity, which is not a public agency, but which has been vested with police powers by the State of Illinois, and which: 1. would be eligible to request or provide law enforcement mutual aid, and; 2. has agreed with ILEAS, under the provisions of this LEMAA, to be a non-member affiliate and abide by the provisions of this Agreement applicable to a non-member affiliates. b. Purpose of Non-Member Affiliate Status — While only Public Agencies may enter into this LEMAA and form ILEAS, there exists value to the public agencies forming ILEAS in having non-member a�liates to provide counsel, advice, experience and different points of view with respect to the problems and issues confronted and addressed by the Public Agencies which have formed ILEAS. As well, as situations sometimes call for coordination with entities with Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 15 of 23 police power which are not Public Agencies, advance cooperation, pianning, coordination and sharing with such entities remains valuable to the Signatory Public Agencies forming ILEAS. As well, in situations of emergency or disaster and to the extent permitted by law, law enforcement services may be provided or given by non- member affiliates under agreements approved by the Governing Board of ILEAS. c. Participation by Non-Member Affiliate — A non-member affiliate becomes or remains a non-member affiliate at the sole discretion and pleasure of the Goveming Board of ILEAS. • A non-member affiliate may: 1. send its law enforcement officers to participate in ILEAS- organized training and educational events upon terms �nd conditions determined by ILEAS; 2. have its representative agent serve, at the discretion of the President of ILEAS and with the advice and consent of the Goveming Board of ILEAS, as an ex-o�cio Governing Board Consultant; 3. at the discretion of ILEAS, provide advice and counsel to I�EAS relative to a mutual aid situation. 4. to the extent permitted by law: (a) and under terms and conditions to be determined by the Goveming Board of ILEAS, enter into agreements permitting peace officers of a non-member affiliate to provide law enforcement services, in an emergency or disaster, to Signatory Public Agencies and utilize ILEAS coordination services. (b) and under terms and conditions to be determined by the Goveming Board of ILEAS, enter into agreements permitting Signatory Public Agencies to provide law enforcement services, in an emergency or disaster, to the non-member affiliate and utilize ILEAS coordination services. • A non-member affiliate, or its representative(s)may not: 1. represent to any third party or the public at large that it is a "member"of ILEAS or a Signatory Public Agency of ILEAS; Law Enforcerr�ent Mutual Aid�greement � Page 16 of 23 2. bind ILEAS, or any of the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA, to any form of an agreement of any sort or kind; 3. disclose to any third party or the public at large: (a) the discussions to which its representatives may be privy at any Goveming Board meeting, (b) any documents, strategems or other planning activities associated with the business or activities of ILEAS or its Signatory Public Agencies, (c) any information deemed by ILEAS or its Signatory Public Agencies as confidential in nature, with the presumption that, if the information was leamed at . any meeting or assemblage of ILEAS Directors, Officers or Signatory Party representatives, the information should be deemed confidential. • A non-member affiliate shall: 1. to the extent that it participates in ILEAS events, maintain liability insurance with a Best's rated A- or better insurance company or a self insurance trust fund in the face or indemnity amount of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) which would provide, infer alia, liability coverage for any activities in which the non-member a�liate might engage. 2. advise any individual, who will be representing the non- member affiliate, of the terms and conditions of non-member affiliate status and direct that individual to act consistently with those terms and conditions. 3. to the extent determined by the Governing Board of ILEAS, pay appropriate dues for a non-member affiliate. d. Evidence of Participation as Non-Member Affiliate — Upon the endorsement of approval by the President of ILEAS' Goveming Board of an application for non-member affiliate status, the incorporeal entity applying for non-member affiliate with ILEAS shall become a non-member affiliate with ILEAS. 1. The granting of non-member affiliate status with ILEAS may be revoked at any time and for such reasons as the Goveming Board sees fit in its sole discretion and choice. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 17 of 23 2. Nothing associated with the granting of a status as a non- member affiliate shall be deemed to create a partnership, joint venture, or any other legal combination of entities, including but not limited to, any principal/agent status by or between the non-member affiliate and either ILEAS or a Signatory Public Agency. 7. Additional Provisions a. Application of Law and Venue Provisions - This LEMAA shall be governed by, and interpreted and construed under, the laws of the State of Illinois. The exclusive venue for the enforcement of the provisions of this Agreement or the construction or interpretation of this Agreement shall be in a state court in Springfield, Illinois. b. Compliance with Laws - All Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA agree to comply with all federal, state, county and local laws and ordinances as well as all applicable rules, regulations, and standards established by any agency of such govemmental units, which are now or hereafter promulgated insofar as they relate to the Signatory Public Agencies' respective performances of the provisions of this LEMAA. c. Lack of Waiver - Acceptance of partial pe�formance or continued performance after breach of this LEMAA shall not be construed to be a waiver of any such breach. d. Status of a Signatory Public Agency — Nothing contained within this LEMAA shall be deemed ta create, or be interpreted to intend to create, a joint venture, partnership or any other sort of legal association or combination of entities as between the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA or as between ILEAS and any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA is acting in its own individual capacity and not as the agent of any other Public Agency which is created by this or any other counterpart copy of this LEMAA or which is a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA. e. Involuntary Termination of Participation in ILEAS — Under terms and conditions established by the Board of Govemors of ILEAS, a Signatory Public Agency may have its participation in this LEMAA involuntarily terminated. The terms and conditions shall describe those situations where such involuntary termination may occur and Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 18 of 23 the process to be followed to make the determination as to whether involuntary termination shail occur. f. Immunities - With respect to ILEAS and each and every Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA, becoming a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA or perFormance under the terms of this LEMAA shall not be deemed to waive any govemmental immunity or defense to which the Signatory Public Agency or ILEAS would otherwise be entitfed under statute or common law in the absence of this LEMAA. g. No Third Party Beneficiary -This LEMAA is not intended nor expected to confer upon or entitle any person or entity, other than . ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA, any information, benefits, advantages, rights or remedies. It is expressly understood and agreed that enforcement of the terms and conditions of this LEMAA, and all rights of action relating to such enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and nothing contained in this LEMAA shall give or allow any claim or right of action by any other or third person or entity (including, but not limited to, members of the general public) based on this LEMAA. It is the express intention of ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA that any person or entity (other than ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA) who may be deemed to receive services or benefits under this LEMAA shall be deemed to be only an incidental beneficiary to this LEMAA. h. Paragraph Headings - The captions and headings used in this LEMAA are only for convenience of reference and the organization of this LEMAA and shall not be construed as expanding, defining or limiting the terms and provisions in this LEMAA. i. Severability- If any part, term, or provision of this LEMAA is held by the courts to be invalid, unenforceable, contrary to law or in conflict with any of the laws of the State of Illinois, the validity of the remaining portions or provisions shall not be affected, and the rights and obligations of the Parties to this LEMAA shall be construed and enforced as if the LEMAA did not contain the particular part, term, or provision held to be invalid, unenforceable, contrary to law or in conflict with any law of the State of Illinois. � Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 19 of 23 j. Parol Evidence and Prior Mutual Aid Agreements - This LEMAA constitutes the entire agreement befinreen the Signatory Public Agencies concerning this LEMAA's subject matter, whether or not written, and may not be modified except as otherwise provided herein. • As befinreen Signatory Public Agencies, this LEMAA supersedes, in its entirety, the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement concerning its subject matter. • As between Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and Prior Signatory Public Agencies who have not executed this LEMAA, this LEMAA does not supersede the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement. • Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to affect other Mutual Aid agreements that a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA may have executed. k. Amendments —As it may be desirable, from time to time, to amend this LEMAA, this subsection shall govem that process. In the event that one or more signatory public agencies wishes to propose an amendment to this LEMAA, such signatory public agency(ies) shall communicate the proposed amendment to the Governing Board in the form of a resolution as to which there can be a vote for the resolution or against the resolution. No resolution may come to a vote unless at least ten (10) then-current signatory public agencies (including the signatory public agency(ies) proposing the amendment) endorse their written desire to have a vote on the resolution. In not less than 30 days nor more than 180 days after receipt of the proposed amendment with the requisite minimum of ten (10) endorsements, the Board shall communicate the proposed amendment to all #hen-current signatory public agencies to the LEMAA together with the date and time by which the signatory public agency must cast its vote for or against the resolution. Each then-current signatory public agency is entitled to one vote. The vote of the signatory public agency should be sent to whomever is the Executive Director at the time of the cutoff for receipt of the votes and such votes may be sent by letter, fax or email but may not be communicated orally (in person or by telephone). The sender assumes all risk that the communication of the vote will not be received in time so early voting is encouraged. The cutoff date and time for the vote to be received by the Executive Director must Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 20 of 23 not be sooner than fourteen 14 days after the Board has sent out its communication that an amendment has been proposed. The Executive Director shall be the sole individual to determine if the vote was received in a timely fashion in order to be counted and al1 votes shall be tallied within one day after the date when the voting was terminated. The resolution shall carry if the votes in favor of the amendment constitute greater than fifty percent (50%) of the total votes cast and shall fail if the votes against the amendment constitute less than or equal to fifty percent (50%) of the total votes cast. If the resolution carries, unless the resolution, by its terms, provides for a later date when it would be effective, the amendment is effective upon the determination by vote tally that the resolution carried. As soon as reasonably possible after the results of the voting have been determined, the Executive Director shall communicate the results of the voting to all then-current signatory public agencies. I. Notices - Notices concerning the withdrawal of a Signatory Public Agency from the terms and conditions of this LEMAA under Section 5 of this LEMAA shall be made to ILEAS at 1701 E. Main St., Urbana, Illinois 61802. Notice of any alleged or actual violations of the terms or conditions of this LEMAA shali be made to ILEAS at 1701 E. Main St., Urbana, Illinois 61802 and each other Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA who is alleged to have committed the alleged or actual violation of the terms or conditions of this LEMAA. m. Counterparts - This LEMAA may be, and is anticipated to be, executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original of this LEMAA. Ba/ance of this page is infenfiona!!y/eft blank before the signature page. Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreemen t Page 21 of 23 In Witness Whereof, the Signatory Pubiic Agency designated below enters into this LEMAA with all other Signatory Public Agencies who have signed or will sign this LEMAA pursuant to legal authorization granted to it under the Constitution of the State of Iliinois (III. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the illinois Intergovemmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.) and the final approvai required of an entity such as the undersigned Public Agency. _���r�s�G'Ql1Ti7� Public Agency Name By: Legally A ori ent ��s=:��'���'1 A� .�-�a?Z . Printed Name: Title: ,- Date: o �/c��� State of Illinois ) �--- ) ss County o�--1<<�-�� ) � c - n , after being duly sworn on oath, deposes and states under penalty of perjury that he/she is the duly authorized agent for the Public Agency shown above, that he/she has read the cover letter accompanying the LEMAA in its entirety, that the entity shown above the "Public Agency Name° line, above, is a Public Agency within the meaning of 5 ILCS 220/1 et seq. and that he/she signs thi ment pursuant to proper authority granted by that public a �' � y � Notary ubli My Commission Expires: i �lBEAI � OIANA PUVLEY�AOCK Nar�►�u1uc-sT,►�oF�uwas �roo��:�ao�m Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement � Page 22 of 23 Exhibit A • William Smith, Captain, Illinois State Police • Wayne Guiliford, Deputy Chief, Chicago Police Dept • Steve Georgas, Deputy Chief, Chicago Police Dept • Eric Smith, Chief of Police, Sherman, Illinois • Tom Schneider, Sheriif, Macon County, Illinois • David Snyders, Sheriff, Stephenson County, Illinois • Victor Moreno, Chief of Police, East Moline, Illinois • Thomas Roman, Chief of Police, Waubonsee Community College • Roger Scott, Sheriff, DeKalb County, Illinois • Steve Neubauer, Chief of Police, Tiniey Park, Illinois • John Zaruba, Sheriff, DuPage County, Illinois • Mike McCoy, Sheriff, Peoria County, Illinois • Brian Fengel, Chief of Police, Bartonville, 111inois • Don Volk, Chief of Police,Washington, Illinois • Derek Hagen, Sheriff, Iroquois County, Illinois • Richard Miller, Chief of Police, Granite City, Illinois • Jim Vazzi, Sheriff, Montgomery County, Illinois • Andrew Hires, Sheriff, Richland County, Illinois • Bill Ackman, Chief of Police, Robinson. 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