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RESOLUTION NO. 20 - A RESOLUTION WITHDRAWING FROM THE JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE REGIONAL ALL-HAZARDS INCIDENT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION AND APPROVING THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE MINNESOTA STATEWIDE ALL-HAZARDS INCIDENT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION WHEREAS,the City of New Brighton is a signatory to and participant in the Joint Powers Agreement Establishing the Regional All-Hazards Incident Management Organization (the "JPA"); and WHEREAS, participants in the JPA agreed to make available employees to be rostered for deployment and activated to respond to incidents inside and outside the State of Minnesota as requested by another local agency or unit of government; and WHEREAS, the City of New Brighton and other participants in the JPA wish to re- structure the organization so that it is no longer a joint powers entity with a board of directors,but rather a cooperative association managed by an operating committee; and WHEREAS, the Cooperative Agreement for the Minnesota Statewide All-Hazards Incident Management Organization was prepared to govern the re-structured organization and replace the JPA; and WHEREAS, the JPA provides that a participant may only withdraw from the JPA by resolution of its governing body declaring its intent to withdraw effective no less than ninety(90) days from the date of the resolution. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the New Brighton City Council as follows: 1. The City of New Brighton hereby declares its intent to withdraw and does withdraw from the Joint Powers Agreement Establishing the Regional All-Hazards Incident Management Organization effective ninety(90) days from the date of this Resolution, and hereby consents to termination of the JPA. A certified copy of this resolution shall be delivered to the Chair of the Board as provided in the JPA. 2. City of New Brighton participation in the Minnesota Statewide All-Hazards Incident Management Organization is hereby approved. 3. The Cooperative Agreement for the Minnesota Statewide All-Hazards Incident Management Organization is hereby approved and a signature page shall be executed by Mayor Kari-Niedfelt-Thomas and delivered to the Operating Committee as provided in the Cooperative Agreement. Adopted this 8th day of June, 2021 by the New Brighton City Council with a vote of ayes and nays.