A. It shall be the duty of the emergency services council, and it is empowered, to review and recommend for adoption emergency services and mutual aid plans and agreements and such resolutions, rules, and regulations as are necessary to implement such plans and agreements.

B. The emergency services council shall meet upon call of the chairman or, in his absence from the city or inability to call such meeting, upon the call of the vice-chairman.

C. All action taken by the emergency services council during the pendency of an emergency or disaster shall be reviewed by such council at least once every 48 hours for the purpose of determining their continued efficacy due to changed circumstances. However, if the mayor determines, based on the recommendation of the director of emergency services, that the emergency or disaster will require emergency measures lasting longer than one week, the emergency services council may extend the interval for reviewing such actions from 48 hours to a period not to exceed seven days.

D. An order as authorized by BMC 2.57.060(A) shall require confirmation by the city council at the earliest practicable time. Neither a proclamation of emergency, nor an order authorized by BMC 2.57.060(B) through (E), nor an action under RCW 38.52.070 requires confirmation by the city council.

E. The confirmation of emergency orders of the mayor, if intended to carry the force of law and be enforced as set forth in BMC 2.57.070, shall be by emergency ordinance adopted by city council in accordance with the City Charter. [Ord. 2020-03-009 § 2; Ord. 8573 § 16(D), 1977].