Alpine County Municipal Code Art. IV Disaster Council

The sheriff or designee(s) shall serve as the chair of the disaster council. (Ord. 719 § 4.1, 2016)

The line of succession for chair of the disaster council in their absence, or upon their inability to act, the chair shall automatically be succeeded as chair of the disaster council by the following officials in the order named:

A. County fire chief. (Ord. 719 § 4.2, 2016)

The Alpine County disaster council consists of the following persons:

A. Chairperson—Sheriff or designee(s);

B. County fire chief;

C. County executive officer (CEO);

D. District attorney;

E. County counsel;

F. County health officer;

G. Health and human services director;

H. Community development director;

I. Deputy CEO to personnel and risk;

J. Behavioral health director. (Ord. 758, 2025; Ord. 719 § 4.3, 2016)

The disaster council shall have power to:

A. Elect a vice-chair and such other officers as it shall deem necessary;

B. Enact its own rules of procedures;

C. Review and recommend for adoption to the board of supervisors those emergency and mutual aid plans, agreements, ordinances, resolutions, and regulations as it shall deem necessary to implement such plans and agreements, and any necessary amendments to those documents. (Ord. 719 § 4.4, 2016)

Additional duties of the disaster council include:

A. Assess and coordinate disaster related training relating to the county of Alpine.

B. Develop plans for meeting any condition constituting a local emergency or state of emergency, including, but not limited to, earthquakes, natural, or manmade disasters.

C. Evaluate the potential hazards within the county and assist in the development of response plans relating to those hazards.

D. Review and approve the county of Alpine emergency operations plan.

E. Develop and approve plans providing for the effective mobilization of all of the resources within the political subdivision, both public and private.

F. By ordinance, provide for the organization, powers and duties, divisions, services, and staff of the county’s emergency organization.

G. Certify disaster service workers through the county office of emergency services under authority of Section 3211.9 of the California Labor Code. (Ord. 719 § 4.5, 2016)

The disaster council shall meet quarterly or upon call of the sheriff or designee, or in his/her absence or inability to call such a meeting, upon the call of the CEO. (Ord. 758, 2025; Ord. 719 § 4.6, 2016)