R2024-41 Resolution Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement for Participation in the Mutual Aide Box Alarm System (MABAS)

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ExecBd10192022 This Agreement by and among the units of federal, state and local government,and other non-governmental emergency response organizations, subscribed hereto, hereafter referred to as"Units", or"Parties" is made and entered into the date set forth next to the signatures of those authorized to execute this Agreement on behalf of the respective Parties, each Party having approved this Agreement and adopted same pursuant to their state's constitutional and statutory authority and in a manner provided by law. In order to provide efficient and effective management of this Agreement, groups of the Parties may be established as "Chapters" on a state-by-state basis and Chapters may include Parties from adjoining states. WHEREAS, the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) was formally organized beginning in 1968 in the northwest and western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois to coordinate and automate fire department mutual aid based roughly on the Chicago Fire Department's box alarm system, whereby predetermined resources of personnel and fire equipment were assigned to respond to a specific incident or area; and WHEREAS, MABAS has grown into a multi-state organization through prearranged mutual aid and dispatch agreements that coordinate responses to emergencies and disasters including fires, emergency medical calls, hazardous material incidents, water related rescues, and technical rescues, and MABAS is designed to facilitate all levels of mutual aid from day-to- day automatic aid responses to major incidents and disasters requiring significant deployment of resources; and WHEREAS, since the last revision of the master MABAS intergovernmental agreement circa 1988, MABAS has grown exponentially to its current composition of almost 1,200 Illinois Units and 2,200 total Units in Illinois and several nearby States with Units ranging from all- volunteer fire departments to major cities like Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; and WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, 1970, Article VII, Section 10, authorizes units of local government to contract or otherwise associate among themselves , with the State, with other States and their units of local government, and with the United States to obtain and share services and to exercise, combine, or transfer any power or function in any manner not prohibited by law or ordinance; and to further contract or otherwise associate with individuals, associations, and corporations in any manner not prohibited by law or ordinance;and to further contract or otherwise associate with individuals, associations, and corporations in any manner not prohibited by law; and 1