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Joint Powers Agreement Establishing the Regional All-Hazards Incident Management Organization This agreement is made pursuant to the authority conferred upon the participants by Minnesota Statute 471.59. The participants to this agreement are all "governmental units" as defined by Minnesota Statute 471.59, Subdivision 1. 1.0 General Purpose. The purpose of this Joint Powers Agreement is to establish the Regional All-Hazards Incident Management Organization, which shall be governed by a Board of Directors, for the purpose of establishing, training, equipping, maintaining and deploying All-Hazard Incident Management Teams to incidents inside and outside the State of Minnesota as may be requested by a local agency or other unit of government. 2.0 Definitions. In addition to the standard definitions found in the National Incident Management System (2008), the following definitions apply to this document. 2.1 "All Hazard Incident Management Organization" (Organization) —The group of all Team Members, governed by the Board, who may be available to be rostered or activated to support incident management activities pursuant to this Agreement. 2.2"All Hazard Incident Management Team" (AHIMT)—A group of Team Members, designated by the Board, who are rostered for deployment or are deployed to support incident management activities pursuant to this Agreement. 2.3"Team Member"—A trained and qualified person, approved by the Board, who is employed by, contracted to, or volunteering with a Participant, who is or may be available to be activated to support incident management activities pursuant to this Agreement. 2.4"Board"—The Board of Directors established by this Agreement 2.5"Director"—A member of the Board of Directors, qualified as defined under this Agreement, who is employed by, contracted to, or volunteering with a Participant, who may be available to be activated to support incident management activities pursuant to this Agreement. 2.6"Participant"—Any governmental unit as defined by Minnesota Statute 471.59, Subdivision 1 which is a signatory to this Agreement. 3.0 Participants. 3.1 Participants: Subject to additional Participants added hereunder, the Participants shall be: (Attached Roster) 3.2 Status: No change in governmental boundaries, structure, organizational status or character shall affect the eligibility of any Final 11-23, 2010 1