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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS
MUTUAL AID NETWORK (IPWMAN) AGREEMENT
(COUNTY APPROXIMATE ANNUAL FEE $500.00)
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WHEREAS, the Illinois Public Works Mutual Aid Network (IPWMAN) was organized beginning in 2009 to coordinate mutual aid. 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, since the last revision of the master IPWMAN intergovernmental agreement IPWMAN has grown exponentially to its current composition of over 400 Illinois member agencies; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, 1970, Article VI I, 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, the 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 from this state or another state; 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
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