WHEREAS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive / HSPD-5, __________ established the National Incident Management System (NIMS); and

WHEREAS, the NIMS establishes a single, comprehensive approach to domestic incident management to ensure that all levels of government across the Nation have the capability to work efficiently and effectively together using a national approach to domestic incident management; and

WHEREAS, the NIMS provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, and local governments to work together to prepare for and respond to, and recover from domestic incidents regardless of the cause, size or complexity; and

WHEREAS, the NIMS provides for interoperability and compatibility among Federal, State and local capabilities and includes a core set of concepts, principles, terminology and technologies covering the incident command system, unified command, training, management of resources and reporting; and

WHEREAS, beginning October 1, 2004 all Federal departments and agencies shall make adoption of the NIMS a requirement, to the extent provided by law, for providing Federal preparedness assistance through grants, contracts or other activities to local governments;

NOW THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the ___________Fire District hereby adopts the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as its system of preparing for and responding to disaster incidents.

ADOPTED this ___day of _____, __, by a roll call vote as follows:

AYES:_____

NAYS:_____

ABSENT:_____

President, Board of Trustees

__________Fire Protection District

ATTEST:_____

Secretary, Board of Trustees

_______________Fire Protection District

STATE OF ILLINOIS )

COUNTIES OF______ ) SS

AND ______ )

I, _____________, the duly qualified and acting Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the _______________Fire Protection District, ________ and _____Counties, Illinois, do hereby certify that attached hereto is a true and correct copy of a Resolution entitled:

which Resolution was duly adopted by said Board of Trustees at a regular meeting held on the ____ day of __________, ___.

I do further certify that a quorum of said Board of Trustees was present at said meeting, and that the Board complied with all requirements of the Illinois Open Meetings Act.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ___ day of _____, __.

Secretary, Board of Trustees

____________Fire Protection District

(SEAL)