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

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Now ExecBd10192022 WHEREAS, the Illinois "Intergovernmental Cooperation Act", 5 ILCS 220/1 et seq., provides that any power or powers, privileges or authority exercised, or which may be exercised by a unit of local government may be exercised and enjoyed jointly with any other unit of local government including units of local government from another state; and WHEREAS, Section 5 of the Illinois "Intergovernmental Cooperation Act", 5 ILCS 220/5, provides that any one or more public agencies may contract with any one or more public agencies to perform any governmental service, activity or undertaking which any of the public agencies entering into the contract is authorized by law to perform, provided that such contract shall be authorized by the governing body of each parry to the contract;and WHEREAS,the Indiana Code at Section 36-1-7(IC 36-1-7)authorizes an Indiana political subdivision to enter into a mutual aid agreement with political subdivisions of states other than Indiana, provided the agreement contains the necessary terms and conditions set out in IC 36-7- 3, is approved by the Indiana Attorney General as required under IC 36-1-7-4, is recorded with the county recorder and filed with the Indiana State Board of Accounts as required under IC 36- 1-7-6; and WHEREAS, for the purposes of Chapter 3 of Indiana Emergency Management and Disaster law, the term "political subdivision" means city, town, township, county, school corporation, library district, local housing authority,public transportation corporation,local building authority, local hospital or corporation,local airport authority or other separate local governmental entity that may sue and be sued. (See IC 10-143-6, IC 36-1-2-13, IC 36-1-2-10, IC 36-1-2-11, IC 36-1-2-18); and WHEREAS,the Indiana Code at Section 10-14-6.5(IC 10-146.5)authorizes the State of Indiana and local units of government to enter into agreements to provide interstate mutual aid for emergency responses that do not rise to the level requiring a state or local declaration of a state of emergency or disaster; and WHEREAS, Chapter 28E of the State Code of Iowa provides that any powers, privileges or authority exercised or capable of exercise by a public agency of the State of Iowa may be exercised and enjoyed jointly with any public agency of any other state or of the United States to the extent that laws of such other state or of the United States permit such joint exercise or enjoyment(See 28E.3); and WHEREAS, the State Code of Iowa, in Chapter 28E, authorizes any one or more public agencies to contract with any one or more other public agencies to perform any governmental service, activity, or undertaking which any of the public agencies entering into the contract is 2