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North Carolina Mutual Aid Agreement - Summary k?..: d ACp - 5 1 This is a voluntarily agreement among North Carolina municipalities to provide mutual aid during a disaster. Signing the Ogreement means that your city or town may request assistance during a disaster, or your city or town may be asked to provide assistance to another city or town. The needs of your Municipal residents are your first priority. Your municipality may decline to provide assistance when your resources are needed for your own residents. When a disaster strikes, a city or town may request help if it determines its own resources are inadequate. Requests can be made directly to another city or town (a provider) or through the coordinator of the local agency with responsibility for emergency management. The requesting city or town should furnish the following information: Description of conditions - whether disaster has happened, damages, and that request for assistance is made pursuant to this agreement; Identification of what assistance is needed, including amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed; Estimate of length of time assistance is needed; Need for relief centers, staging areas, storage outside the requesting city; and Time and place for someone from requesting city to meet personnel from providing city. hen a city receives a request, it should respond as soon as possible with the following formation: Agreeing or declining to provide assistance, Description of what personnel, equipment, and other resources are available; Length of time assistance will be available; When assitance will arrive; and Name of the person who will supervise the personnel being sent. The requesting city is responsible for the following: Basic needs of employees from the provider city, unless otherwise specified (this means paying reasonable out-of- pocket costs, transportation costs, housing, food); Coordination of requests for state or federal assistance to local emergency management agency; Assignment of work to provider city's supervisor, Reimbursing the provider for all documented costs and expenses, including personnel equipment and materials (rates for equipment and materials at pre-established rates); and Provide directions and assistance in record keeping to provider. • The providing city is responsible for the following: http://149.168.212.15jMUTA1DfSummary.htm (1 of 2) [3/6/2009 10:11:13 AM]