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APPROVING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH THE ILLINOIS PUBLIC WORKS MUTUAL AID NETWORK (IPWMAN) FOR MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION AND MUTUAL AID ASSISTANCE
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WHEREAS, the County of Kane, Illinois ("County") is a body politic and corporate of the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the Illinois Public Works Mutual Aid Network ("IPWMAN") was organized beginning in 2009 to coordinate mutual aid across the state. The system is designed to facilitate all levels of mutual aid, from day-to-day non-emergent sharing of resources, to major incidents and disasters requiring significant deployment of resources; 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
WHEREAS, Section 5 of the "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 party to the contract; and
WHEREAS, the County and IPWMAN are public agencies within the meaning of the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1, et seq.) and as authorized by Article 7, Section 10 of the Constitution of the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, since the last revision of the master IPWMAN intergovernmental agre...
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