Resolution 2014-11 Resolution No. 2014-
A Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement and
the Existence and Formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System by
Intergovernmental Cooperation.
WHEREAS, the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois ("City") is a duly
organized and validly existing non home-rule municipality created in accordance with the
Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970 and the laws of this State and a duly constituted
public agency of this State, and;
WHEREAS, the City, as a public agency of the State of Illinois, is authorized and
empowered by the Constitution of the State of Illinois (111. Const. Art. VII, § 10) and the Illinois
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.) to enter into intergovernmental
agreements with other public agencies on matters of mutual concern and interest such as the
provision of adequate law enforcement personnel and resources for the protection of residents
and property falling within the jurisdiction of the City, and;
WHEREAS, the City recognizes that certain natural or man-made occurrences may
result in emergencies or disasters that exceed the resources, equipment and/or law enforcement
personnel of a single given public agency, and;
WHEREAS, a given public agency can, by entering into a mutual aid agreement for law
enforcement services and resources, effectively provide a broader range and more plentiful
amount of law enforcement capability for the citizenry which it serves, and;
WHEREAS, in order to have an effective mutual aid agreement for law enforcement
resources and services, this City recognizes it must be prepared to come to the aid of other public
agencies in their respective times of need due to emergencies or disasters, and;
WHEREAS, this City recognizes the need for our specific City to develop an effective
mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources upon which it may call upon in
its time of need and is prepared to enter into a mutual aid agreement for law enforcement
services and resources with other like-minded public agencies, and;
WHEREAS, this City also recognizes the need for the existence of a public agency,
formed by an intergovernmental agreement between two or more public agencies, which can
serve to coordinate and facilitate the provision of law enforcement mutual aid between signatory
public agencies to a mutual aid agreement for law enforcement services and resources, and;
WHEREAS, this City has been provided with a certain "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid
Agreement" which has been reviewed by the elected officials of this City and which other public
agencies in the State of Illinois are prepared to execute, in conjunction with this City, in order to
provide and receive law enforcement mutual aid services as set forth in the "Law Enforcement
Mutual Aid Agreement," and;
WHEREAS, it is the anticipation and intention of this City that this "Law Enforcement
Mutual Aid Agreement" will be executed in counterparts as other public agencies choose to enter
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into the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement" and strengthen the number of signatory
public agencies and resources available from those public agencies, and;
WHEREAS, it is the anticipation and intent of this City that the "Law Enforcement
Mutual Aid Agreement' will continue to garner support and acceptance from other currently
unidentified public agencies who will enter into the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement'
over time and be considered as if all signatory public agencies to the "Law Enforcement Mutual
Aid Agreement' had executed the "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement'at the same time,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Mayor and City Council of the
United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, as follows:
Section 1. This Resolution shall be known as, and may hereafter be referred to as, the
Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid
Agreement and the Existence and Formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement
Alarm System by Intergovernmental Cooperation.
Section 2. The Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Law Enforcement Mutual Aid
Agreement and the Existence and Formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement
Alarm System by Intergovernmental Cooperation shall be, and hereby is, enacted
as follows:
a. Authorization to enter into a Certain Agreement. The Mayor of this City is hereby
authorized to sign, execute and deliver the agreement known as the "Law
Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement' and thereby enter into an intergovernmental
agreement with such other public agencies of the State of Illinois as are likewise
willing to enter into said "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement' and
recognize the existence and formation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm
System as set forth in the said"Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement."
b. Savings Clause. If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Resolution
shall be held invalid, the invalidity thereof shall not affect any of the provisions of
this Resolution.
C. Effective Date. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, approval and publication as provided by law.
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Passed by the City Council of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois this
day of 114U 2014.
CITY CLERK
CARLO COLOSIMO � KEN KOCH
JACKIE MILSCHEWSKI Y LARRY KOT
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER y JOEL FRIEDERS
ROSE ANN SPEARS DIANE TEELING
Approved by me, as Mayor of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois, this
6?61 day of MAY , 2014.
MAYO
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Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement
This Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement (LEMAA) is executed, in
multiple counterparts, by the Public Agency shown on last page hereof on the
date that is set forth on the last page of this LEMAA for the uses and purposes
set forth herein.
Whereas, the undersigned Public Agency of the State of Illinois does
hereby declare that it is in the best interest of the Signatory Public Agency to
make provision for law enforcement Mutual Aid in the event the undersigned
Public Agency should need law enforcement Mutual Aid, and;
Whereas, the undersigned Public Agency of the State of Illinois
recognizes that law enforcement Mutual Aid is only effective if those Public
Agencies who could potentially benefit from law enforcement Mutual Aid are
willing to provide law enforcement Mutual Aid to other Public Agencies who are
willing to enter into a Mutual Aid agreement such as this Mutual Aid agreement,
and;
Whereas, in the State of Illinois, there exist constitutional and statutory
provisions enabling and supporting the formation of intergovernmental
agreements on matters such as law enforcement Mutual Aid, towt, the
Constitution of the State of Illinois (111. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the Illinois
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.), the Local
Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (745 ILCS 10/7-
101 et seq.) and the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5111-1-2.1), and;
Whereas, in order to have an effective law enforcement Mutual Aid
system, it is necessary and desirable to have a third party entity that can support,
centralize, coordinate and organize the provision of law enforcement Mutual Aid
by and among Signatory Public Agencies to the law enforcement Mutual Aid
agreement, and;
Whereas, this LEMAA is made in recognition of the fact that natural or
man-made occurrences may result in Emergencies or Disasters that exceed the
resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel of a given Public
Agency; each Public Agency which signs a copy of this LEMAA intends to aid
and assist the other participating Public Agencies during an Emergency or
Disaster by temporarily assigning some of the Responding Public Agency's
resources, equipment and/or law enforcement personnel to the Requesting
Public Agency as circumstances permit and in accordance with the terms of this
LEMAA; the specific intent of this LEMAA being to safeguard the lives, persons
and property of citizens of the State of Illinois during an Emergency or Disaster
by enabling other Public Agencies to provide additional resources, equipment
and/or Law Enforcement Personnel as needed, and;
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Whereas, since approximately 2002, there has existed in the State of
Illinois an Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System law enforcement Mutual Aid
agreement ("Prior Mutual Aid Agreement") which was initially executed by a
multitude of signatory parties in the wake of the events of the 911 terrorist attacks
and (even though the needs of law enforcement have changed, grown and
advanced in various regards) the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement has never been
updated, modified or changed since its inception, it is now the desire of the
Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA to enhance and reaffirm its commitment
to law enforcement Mutual Aid in the State of Illinois while providing more
particularity to the relationship that exists between each of the Signatory Public
Agencies to this LEMAA and the third party agency, the Illinois Law Enforcement
Alarm System, created by such Signatory Public Agencies,
Now, therefore, the undersigned Public Agency, does hereby enter into
this LEMAA with each and every other Public Agency which signs a counterpart
copy of this LEMAA and agrees and contracts as follows:
1. Definitions. The following definitions apply to this Mutual Aid
Agreement (the plural version of any defined term meaning two or more
instances of the defined term):
a. Disaster— An occurrence, or the reasonable threat or possibility of
an occurrence of, any of the following: widespread or severe damage; injury or
loss of life or property resulting from any natural or technological cause, including
but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, windstorm, tornado, hurricane, severe
inclement weather, hazardous materials spill or other water or ground
contamination requiring prompt action to avert danger or damage; epidemics,
contaminations, blight, extended periods of severe and inclement weather,
drought, infestation and critical shortages of essential products, fuels and energy;
explosion; riot; significant or large scale civil insurrection or disobedience; hostile
military or paramilitary action, or; acts of domestic terrorism.
b. Emergency — A natural or man-made situation that threatens to
cause, or causes, loss of life and/or property and exceeds the physical and/or
organizational response capabilities of a unit of local, state or federal
government.
C. Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (or the abbreviation
"ILEAS") - the third party Public Agency formed by Signatory Public Agencies to
this LEMAA, or continued from the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement, to promote and
facilitate law enforcement Mutual Aid in the State of Illinois, and;
d. Initial Governing Board — The first Governing Board of ILEAS
established after two or more Public Agencies enter into this LEMAA.
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e. Law Enforcement Personnel — An employee of a Signatory Public
Agency to this LEMAA who is a law enforcement officer, county corrections
officer or court security officer, as defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Police
Training Act(50 ILCS 70512).
f. LEMAA This agreement.
g. Mutual Aid — Assistance provided by a Public Agency to another
Public Agency pursuant to a definite and prearranged written agreement in the
event of an Emergency or Disaster.
h. Prior Mutual Aid Agreement — a certain Mutual Aid Agreement
having initial signatories in 2002 (with other signatory parties beginning their
participation at a time later than the initial signatory parties) and which reflects a
document modification date of "October 23, 2002" in the footer of the signature
page (page 5).
i. Prior Signatory Public Agency — A Public Agency which executed'
the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement and has neither terminated its participation in the
Prior Mutual Aid Agreement nor entered into this LEMAA.
i. Public Agency — Such units of government as are defined as a
public agency by the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS
220/2(1)).
j. Requesting Public Agency A Signatory Public Agency to this
LEMAA that has primary jurisdiction over the site of an Emergency or Disaster
which, due to its perceived insufficient resources, equipment and/or Law
Enforcement Personnel, would be unable to provide an adequate response to an
Emergency or Disaster without the assistance of others.
k. Responding Public Agency A Signatory Public Agency to this
LEMAA that provides resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel
to a Requesting Public Agency during an Emergency or Disaster.
I. Signatory Public Agency — a Public Agency that has executed this
LEMAA by signature of an authorized individual for the Public Agency under the
authority of the Constitution of the State of Illinois (111. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the
Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 22011 et seq.) and the final
approval required of the Public Agency in order to execute the LEMAA.
2. Agreement to Participate in Law Enforcement Mutual Aid.
The Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that, in the event of an
Emergency or Disaster, it will respond to requests for assistance by a Requesting
Public Agency with such Law Enforcement Personnel, equipment, resources,
facilities, or services as are, in the opinion of the Responding Public Agency,
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available and useful and being requested by a Requesting Public Agency.
Possible responses shall include, but not be limited to, merely being on "stand
by," providing the benefit of prior experience or consultation and/or actual
"hands.-on" participation in law enforcement activities in the jurisdiction of the
Requesting Public Agency any one of which may also entail the provision of
equipment, resources, facilities or other services. Provided, however, that each
Responding Public Agency reserves the right to refuse to render assistance or to
recall any or all rendered assistance, whenever it believes that such refusal or
recall is necessary to ensure adequate protection of its own jurisdiction's
property, citizenry or personnel.
It is expected that requests for Mutual Aid under this Agreement will be
initiated only when the needs of the Requesting Public Agency exceed its
resources. Responding Public Agencies' resources will be released and returned
to their own respective jurisdictions by the Requesting Public Agency as soon as
the situation is restored to the point where the Requesting Public Agency is able
to satisfactorily handle the emergency or disaster with its own resources or when
a Responding Public Agency decides to recall its assistance.
Whenever an Emergency or Disaster is of such magnitude and
consequence that it is deemed advisable by the highest-ranking officer present of
the Requesting Public Agency to request assistance from a Responding Public
Agency, he is hereby authorized to do so under the terms of this LEMAA. The
highest-ranking officer present of the Responding Public Agency is authorized to,
and shall forthwith take, the following actions:
• Immediately determine what type of assistance is being requested.
• Immediately determine if the requested resources, equipment and/or Law
Enforcement Personnel can be committed to the Requesting Public
Agency.
• Immediately dispatch, in consultation and coordination with the ILEAS
dispatcher, the resources, equipment and/or Law Enforcement Personnel
that are available to the Requesting Public Agency.
At the Emergency or Disaster site, the highest-ranking officer of the
Requesting Public Agency who is present shall assume full responsibility and
command for operations at the scene. Law Enforcement Personnel from the
Responding Public Agencies shall report to, and shall work under, the direction
and supervision of the Requesting Public Agency. Provided, however, that at all
times, the personnel of the Responding Public Agency shall remain employees of
their own agency and shall adhere to the policies and procedures of their own
employer. While working under the direction of the Requesting Public Agency,
Law Enforcement Personnel shall only be required to respond to lawful orders.
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All equipment provided or services performed under this LEMAA shall be
provided without reimbursement to the Responding Public Agency from the
Requesting Public Agency. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a Responding
Public Agency or ILEAS from seeking reimbursement or defrayment of any
expenses it may have incurred in responding to a Mutual Aid request from other
sources. The Requesting Public Agency agrees to cooperate with any effort to
seek reimbursement or defrayment of Mutual Aid expenses on the part of
Responding Public Agencies or ILEAS.
All Requesting Public Agencies, Responding Public Agencies and ILEAS
are required to keep expense and accounting records to identify the costs and
expenses of any Mutual Aid provided under this LEMAA.
Each Responding Public Agency shall assume sole responsibility for
insuring or indemnifying its own employees, as provided by state, federal law
and/or local ordinance, and for providing personnel benefits, including benefits
that arise due to injury or death, to their own employees as required by state or
federal law just as if the employee would have been working as an employee of
the Responding Public Agency in its own home jurisdiction. Each Responding
Public Agency shall also be responsible, regardless of fault, for replacing or
repairing any damage to its own vehicles or equipment that occurs while
providing assistance under this LEMAA.
The Requesting Public Agency agrees that this LEMAA shall not give rise
to any liability or responsibility for the failure of any other Signatory Public
Agency to respond to any request for assistance made pursuant to this LEMAA.
Each Responding Public Agency under this LEMAA further agrees that
each Responding Public Agency will be responsible for defending itself in any
action or dispute that arises In connection with, or as the result of, this LEMAA
and that each Responding Public Agency will be responsible for bearing its own
costs, damages, losses, expenses and attorney fees.
3. The Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System. By agreement by
and between each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA, there is and was
formed and exists a third party Public Agency, created by the Signatory Public
Agency parties to this LEMAA and by virtue of this LEMAA, which shall be known
as the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (hereinafter referred to as
"ILEAS"). The following provisions apply to ILEAS:
a. The Public Agency !LEAS shall have a governing board, consistent
with the meaning of the phrase "governing board" in 5 ILCS
22012(1), which shall be known as the "Governing Board."
1. Governing Board Composition and Voting. The Governing
Board of ILEAS shall consist of the following individual
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members, described as follows;
(a). Members of the Initial Governing Board — The
individuals designated on Exhibit A will be members
of the Initial Governing Board of (LEAS and shall
serve until such time as their successors are elected
or appointed, as the case maybe.
(b). Composition of the Governing Boards of (LEAS after
the Initial Governing Board members have served
their term shall be as follows, who shall serve until
such time as their successors are elected or
appointed, as the case may be:
• 16 elected members representing eight (8)
established (LEAS regions there shall be one
elected Sheriff member and one elected Chief of
Police member from each of the eight (8)
established ILEAS regions and the elected Sheriff
member and the elected Chief of Police member
shall be designated as the "Co-Chairs" from that
region;
• a permanent, non-elective Governing Board
membership for the Illinois State Police Director or
the Director's designee,
• a permanent, non-elective Governing Board
membership for the President of the Illinois
Association of Chiefs of Police or that President's
designee,
• a permanent, non-elective Governing Board
membership for the President of the Illinois
Sheriffs Association or that President's designee.
• two permanent, non-elective Governing Board
memberships for the City of Chicago, Illinois or
those persons designated by the Superintendent
of Police, Chicago, Illinois.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this
subparagraph (b), no Public Agency shall be
permitted to designate (as a candidate for election or
appointment) a Governing Board Member unless that
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Public Agency is a Signatory Public Agency and every
Governing Board Member must be affiliated by
employment with, or relation to, a Signatory Public
Agency.
The President of ILEAS, with the advice and consent
of the Governing Board of ILEAS, may appoint any
number of Ex-Officio Governing Board consultants for
the benefit of obtaining their counsel and advice but
such individuals, if any, as are appointed to Ex-Officio
Governing Board consultant positions shall not have
any voting rights on matters to be decided by the
Governing Board and, relative to the Board, are not
agents or servants of the Governing Board, ILEAS or
any Signatory Public Agency.
(c). Members of Governing Boards of ILEAS after the
Initial Governing Board — For purposes of determining
the elected members of the Governing Board after the
Initial Governing Board, the State of Illinois shall be
divided into eight (8) regions which are shown on
Exhibit B hereto. Any Signatory Public Agency to this
LEMAA may nominate any one or more eligible
individuals from its region as a candidate for
Governing Board membership, including an individual
employed by the Signatory Public Agency. Only
Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA may vote
for representatives to be elected from their region.
Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA gets
one vote for an elected Sheriff member and one vote
for an elected Chief of Police member from its region.
Starting in 2015, the election of Governing Board
members shall occur every two years in March of the
year on a date to be determined by the Governing
Board members in office in the October prior to the
date of the election. Should a given Governing Board
member vote result in a tie between candidates, the
two or more candidates with the same highest
number of votes shall participate in a "coin toss"
selection process to determine who shall fill that
Governing Board member position.
(d). In the event that an elected Governing Board member
dies, retires, resigns, is no longer employed by his
employer in the same capacity as at the time of his
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election or is otherwise unwilling or unable to serve
the balance of that member's term, then a
replacement Governing Board member from the same
region as the Governing Board member being
replaced shall be chosen by the remaining Governing
Board member from that Region and shall serve until
the next Governing Board member vote. If both
Governing Board members from a given Region are
no longer in office at the same time, then, by majority
vote of the remaining Governing Board members still
holding office, two replacements shall be chosen from
that same Region (in individual, separate votes) and
shall serve until the next Governing Board member
vote. The replacement Governing Board member
shall be a Sheriff if a Sheriff is being replaced and
shall be a Chief of Police if a Chief of Police is being
replaced.
(e) Matters before the Governing Board for decision shall
be decided by majority vote of a quorum of the voting
members. A quorum for the conducting of the
business of the Governing Board shall be established
by the Bylaws promulgated by the Governing Board.
Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the
establishment of committees or subcommittees of the
whole for the conduct of business as expressed in the
Bylaws promulgated by the Governing Board.
2. Governing Board to Promulgate a Plan of Operation. The
Governing Board shall cause to be promulgated a Plan of
Operation for the giving and receiving of Mutual Aid under
the provisions of the LEMAA and shall promulgate Bylaws
for the management of ILEAS. Both the Plan of Operation
and Bylaws may be modified from time to time based upon
the majority vote of the then current members of the
Governing Board.
3. Governing Board Compensation. All officers, members and
ex-officio members of the Governing Board shall serve
without compensation.
4. Regional Governing Boards. In each of the Regions, in
addition to the co-chairs for that region, there may be elected
a secretary, treasurer and sergeant at arms for that Region
as well as any number of ex-officio members as that Region
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desires.
b. The Public Agency (LEAS shall have a President, Vice President,
Secretary, Treasurer and Sergeant at Arms who shall be appointed
by and from the Governing Board of ILEAS, at its discretion. The
officers shall have the duties, responsibilities and powers accorded
to them by the Bylaws of ILEAS as the Bylaws are established and
may be amended from time to time by the Governing Board.
C. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have an Executive Director,
appointed by the Governing Board at its discretion, who shall be the
chief operating officer of !LEAS and who shall have the duties,
responsibilities and powers accorded to the Executive Director by
the Bylaws of ILEAS as the Bylaws are established and may be
amended from time to time by the Governing Board.
d. The Public Agency ILEAS shall have the authority, right and power
to:
1. coordinate law enforcement Mutual Aid responses by and
among Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and act as
a central receiving point for Mutual Aid requests;
2. solicit and receive commitments from Signatory Public
Agencies to respond to a Mutual Aid request and coordinate
and provide support for any legal documentation necessary
or desirable to effectuate the provision of law enforcement
Mutual Aid;
3. maintain an electronic mutual aid database to which all
Signatory Public Agencies provide information related to
each respective Signatory Public Agency's manpower,
resources and equipment necessary to respond to a Mutual
Aid request and to which all Signatory Public Agencies have
access;
4. identify through the mutual aid database individuals from
Signatory Public Agencies with the ability, training and
qualifications suitable for Mutual Aid responses, together
with the necessary equipment and other resources as
requested by the Requesting Public Agency;
5. coordinate and provide a facility for training exercises and
education;
6. solicit, obtain and administer funds for the operations and
functions of ILEAS and the provision of law enforcement
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Mutual Aid in the form of grants, donations, endowments or
allocations of funds from other governmental agencies or
other sources (but not from the issuance of any debt
obligations), to assess Board-approved dues on Signatory
Public Agencies and to obtain reimbursement, payment,
advances or funds from any governmental entity or agency
which provides, allocates or administers funds to defray, pay
or reimburse the expenses of those entities participating in
Mutual Aid efforts;
7. provide accounting, budgeting, estimation, documentation,
archival and general administrative support for law
enforcement Mutual Aid deployments (actual, planned,
proposed or contemplated) and the general operations of
ILEAS;
8. obtain indemnity, casualty, liability and worker's
compensation insurance for the operations of ILEAS in
amounts and under terms deemed appropriate by the
Governing Board;
9. employ support personnel to perform the functions and
operations of ILEAS;
10. enter into contracts, agreements, purchase agreements and
leases necessary to the functions and operations of ILEAS;
11. provide and display identification, signage, insignias,
patches or other indicia which identify ILEAS employees and
agents if and when such employees and/or agents are on
site to coordinate or facilitate disaster and/or emergency
relief performed by various Responding Public Agencies;
12. to own, hold, supply, borrow or lend, in ILEAS' name, such
personal property as deemed necessary by the Governing
Board to the purposes, functions and operations of ILEAS;
13. facilitate, enhance or enable interagency communication
relative to the provision of Mutual Aid;
14. provide to Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA such
information as is useful to them relative to what resources
are available from ILEAS or other Signatory Public Agencies
to this LEMAA ;
15. maintain a listing or database of available equipment,
available animals and alleged independent contractor
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experts in various fields that would serve as a resource to
ILEAS and any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA
which listing would be made available to such Signatory
Public Agencies with the understanding on the part of the
requesting Signatory Public Agency that ILEAS:
(a) does not represent, provide, recommend or warrant to
any Signatory Public Agency the appropriateness,
integrity, quality, or qualifications of any listed
resource, equipment or animal for a given use (such
determination to be made solely by the requesting
Signatory Public Agency), and;
(b) does not furnish, employ, provide, retain or have as
its agent, any alleged expert whose contact
information is provided to the Signatory Public
Agency, such alleged expert being solely an
independent contractor and, further, does not
represent, recommend or warrant to any Signatory
Public Agency the appropriateness, integrity, training,
quality or qualifications of any alleged expert (such
determinations to be made solely by the requesting
Signatory Public Agency), and;
(c) relative to any animal, does not represent,
recommend or warrant to any Signatory Public
Agency the appropriateness, training, behavioral
characteristics, quality or qualifications of any animal
for a given use (such determination to be made solely
by the requesting Signatory Public Agency).
16. engage in such other activities as support, enhance or
enable Mutual Aid by and between the Signatory Public
Agencies to this LEMAA.
e. It is not the function, responsibility or purpose of ILEAS to warrant
or endorse the sufficiency or talents of, deploy, supply, direct,
command or manage any Law Enforcement Personnel responding
to Mutual Aid requests under this LEMAA. Any Law Enforcement
Personnel responding to a law enforcement Mutual Aid request
under this LEMAA shall be Law Enforcement Personnel of a
Responding Public Agency (and not of ILEAS) and shall take their
orders from commanding officers of either the requesting Public
Agency or the Responding Public Agency, as otherwise detailed in
this LEMAA. In general, ILEAS` function in a Mutual Aid deployment
is to receive the Mutual Aid request, identify and contact
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appropriate potential responding Signatory Public Agency
responders, obtain commitments from such potential Signatory
Public Agency responders that they will respond to the Mutual Aid
request, identify those Signatory Public Agencies who will respond
to the Mutual Aid request of the Requesting Public Agency, provide
[LEAS' expertise, services and experience relative to issues
associated with Mutual Aid deployments and continue to monitor
the adequacy of the Mutual Aid response to be able to respond if
the Requesting Public Agency determines more assistance is
needed and review the sufficiency of the Mutual Aid response that
was made. ILEAS may, in its discretion, establish an on site
presence at the Mutual Aid site when the Requesting Public
Agency or the Responding Public Agencies believe such presence
is useful to the purposes and functions of ILEAS and/or the
Requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agencies.
4. Additional Signatory Public Agency Provisions
a. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to maintain
liability insurance with a Best's rated A- or better insurance
company or a self insurance trust fund in the face or indemnity
amount of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) which would
provide, infer alia, liability coverage for any activities in which the
Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA might engage under this
LEMAA.
b. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to provide to
ILEAS information about the equipment, resources and personnel
of its Public Agency, jurisdictional and regional demographic
information, contact information, National Incident Management
Systems information and Reception Site Staging information which
may be used by ILEAS to aid in ILEAS' support role under this
LEMAA. The Executive Director of ILEAS shall prepare a
document, which will be amended from time to time, which requests
the information desired and send it to each Signatory Public
Agency for completion and update. Each Signatory Public Agency
to this LEMAA agrees that ILEAS may distribute any information
obtained by the Executive Director to any other Signatory Public
Agency to this LEMAA who may request such information for
Mutual Aid purposes.
C. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that it will not
hold itself out as an agent of [LEAS or any Public Agency other
than itself and will instruct each of its employees that they are not to
hold themselves out as employees or agents of ILEAS or any
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Public Agency other than the one as to which they are actually
agents or employees. Further, each Signatory Public Agency to this
LEMAA agrees to monitor the activities of its agents and employees
to maintain compliance with this provision of the LEMAA.
d. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA understands that,
under the Constitution of the State of Illinois (111. Const. Art. VII,
§10) and the Illinois Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (5 ILCS
22011 et seq.), ILEAS may only be delegated authority, abilities and
powers that the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA has itself.
To the extent that a Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA does
not have legal authority to participate in cooperative law
enforcement mutual aid, this LEMAA is void and of no effect
relative to such Signatory Public Agency.
e. It is the intent of each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA that
ILEAS be created with all the powers enumerated herein and
without further restrictions on those powers. Therefore, each
Signatory Public Agency agrees that, if that Signatory Public
Agency is determined to not have the authority or powers that are
coextensive with those granted to ILEAS in this LEMAA or it is
determined that the Signatory Public Agency is limited in the
exercise of its authority or its powers to a greater extent than ILEAS
is limited by this LEMAA, rather than limiting the powers of ILEAS,
that finding will cause the Signatory Public Agency's participation in
the creation of ILEAS to be void ab initio and Section 3 of this
LEMAA shall not apply to such a Signatory Public Agency. Such a
finding will not, however, invalidate the Signatory Public Agency's
adoption of this LEMAA for purposes of providing and receiving law
enforcement Mutual Aid.
f. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA warrants that:
1. It is a Public Agency under the laws of the State of Illinois.
2. it is authorized by the legal process and laws applicable to
that Public Agency that it has the full authority and right to
enter into this LEMAA.
3. To the extent that it is called upon to provide Law
Enforcement Personnel as a Responding Public Agency, the
Law Enforcement Personnel the Signatory Public Agency to
this LEMAA provides have been properly credentialed by the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to be a
law enforcement officer, county corrections officer or court
security officer in the State of Illinois and have been trained
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relative to the types of tasks that the Law Enforcement
Personnel will be undertaking relative to the mutual aid
request.
4. To the extent that it is called upon to provide equipment as a
Responding Public Agency, the equipment the Signatory
Public Agency to this LEMAA provides is in good working
order with no known defects, problems, faults or limitations
that would make its use dangerous or impractical.
5. Termination of Participation in LEMAA
a. Any Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA has the right to
terminate its participation in this LEMAA upon ninety (90) days
notice to (LEAS. ILEAS shall notify remaining Signatory Public
Agency parties to the LEMAA of the notice of termination.
b. To the extent that a Signatory Public Agency incurs an obligation
under this LEMAA prior to the expiration of the ninety (90) day
notice of termination period, nothing contained in this section shall
be interpreted to mean that that Signatory Public Agency should not
meet its obligation under this LEMAA. Termination is automatically
effective upon the expiration of the ninety (90) day period without
further action by any party.
6. Non-Member Affiliates
a. Definition of Status -- A non-member affiliate of ILEAS is an
incorporeal entity, which is not a public agency, but which has been
vested with police powers by the State of Illinois, and which:
1. would be eligible to request or provide law enforcement
mutual aid, and;
2. has agreed with ILEAS, under the provisions of this LEMAA,
to be a non-member affiliate and abide by the provisions of
this Agreement applicable to a non-member affiliates.
b. Purpose of Non-Member Affiliate Status — While only Public
Agencies may enter into this LEMAA and form ILEAS, there exists
value to the public agencies forming ILEAS in having non-member
affiliates to provide counsel, advice, experience and different points
of view with respect to the problems and issues confronted and
addressed by the Public Agencies which have formed ILEAS. As
well, as situations sometimes call for coordination with entities with
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police power which are not Public Agencies, advance cooperation,
planning, coordination and sharing with such entities remains
valuable to the Signatory Public Agencies forming (LEAS. As well,
in situations of emergency or disaster and to the extent permitted
by law, law enforcement services may be provided or given by non-
member affiliates under agreements approved by the Governing
Board of ILEAS.
C. Participation by Non-Member Affiliate A non-member affiliate
becomes or remains a non-member affiliate at the sole discretion
and pleasure of the Governing Board of]LEAS.
• A non-member affiliate may:
1. send its law enforcement officers to participate in ILEAS-
organized training and educational events upon terms and
conditions determined by ILEAS;
2. have its representative agent serve, at the discretion of the
President of FLEAS and with the advice and consent of the
Governing Board of ILEAS, as an ex-offcio Governing Board
Consultant;
3. at the discretion of ILEAS, provide advice and counsel to
ILEAS relative to a mutual aid situation.
4. to the extent permitted by law:
(a) and under terms and conditions to be determined by
the Governing Board of ILEAS, enter into agreements
permitting peace officers of a non-member affiliate to
provide law enforcement services, in an emergency or
disaster, to Signatory Public Agencies and utilize
ILEAS coordination services.
(b) and under terms and conditions to be determined by
the Governing Board of ILEAS, enter into agreements
permitting Signatory Public Agencies to provide law
enforcement services, in an emergency or disaster, to
the non-member affiliate and utilize ILEAS
coordination services.
• A non-member affiliate, or its representative(s) may not:
1. represent to any third party or the public at large that it is a
"member" of ILEAS or a Signatory Public Agency of ILEAS;
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2. bind (LEAS, or any of the Signatory Public Agencies to this
LEMAA, to any form of an agreement of any sort or kind;
3. disclose to any third party or the public at large:
(a) the discussions to which its representatives may be
privy at any Governing Board meeting,
(b) any documents, strategems or other planning
activities associated with the business or activities of
ILEAS or its Signatory Public Agencies,
(c) any information deemed by [LEAS or its Signatory
Public Agencies as confidential in nature, with the
presumption that, if the information was learned at
any meeting or assemblage of ILEAS Directors,
Officers or Signatory Party representatives, the
information should be deemed confidential.
• A non-member affiliate shall:
1. to the extent that it participates in ILEAS events, maintain
liability insurance with a Best's rated A or better insurance
company or a self insurance trust fund in the face or
indemnity amount of at least one million dollars
($1,000,000,00) which would provide, infer alia, liability
coverage for any activities in which the non-member affiliate
might engage.
2. advise any individual, who will be representing the non-
member affiliate, of the terms and conditions of non-member
affiliate status and direct that individual to act consistently
with those terms and conditions.
3. to the extent determined by the Governing Board of [LEAS,
pay appropriate dues for a non-member affiliate.
d. Evidence of Participation as Non-Member Affiliate — Upon the
endorsement of approval by the President of ILEAS' Governing
Board of an application for non-member affiliate status, the
incorporeal entity applying for non-member affiliate with ILEAS shall
become a non-member affiliate with ILEAS.
1. The granting of non-member affiliate status with ILEAS may
be revoked at any time and for such reasons as the
Governing Board sees fit in its sole discretion and choice.
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2. Nothing associated with the granting of a status as a non-
member affiliate shall be deemed to create a partnership,
joint venture, or any other legal combination of entities,
including but not limited to, any principal/agent status by or
between the non-member affiliate and either ILEAS or a
Signatory Public Agency.
7. Additional Provisions
a. Application of Law and Venue Provisions - This LEMAA shall be
governed by, and interpreted and construed under, the laws of the
State of Illinois. The exclusive venue for the enforcement of the
provisions of this Agreement or the construction or interpretation of
this Agreement shall be in a state court in Springfield, Illinois.
b. Compliance with Laws - All Signatory Public Agencies to this
LEMAA agree to comply with all federal, state, county and local
laws and ordinances as well as all applicable rules, regulations, and
standards established by any agency of such governmental units,
which are now or hereafter promulgated insofar as they relate to
the Signatory Public Agencies' respective performances of the
provisions of this LEMAA.
C. Lack of Waiver - Acceptance of partial performance or continued
performance after breach of this LEMAA shall not be construed to
be a waiver of any such breach.
d. Status of a Signatory Public Agency— Nothing contained within this
LEMAA shall be deemed to create, or be interpreted to intend to
create, a joint venture, partnership or any other sort of legal
association or combination of entities as between the Signatory
Public Agencies to this LEMAA or as between ILEAS and any
Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA. Each Signatory Public
Agency to this LEMAA is acting in its own individual capacity and
not as the agent of any other Public Agency which is created by this
or any other counterpart copy of this LEMAA or which is a
Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA.
e. Involuntary Termination of Participation in ILEAS — Under terms
and conditions established by the Board of Governors of ILEAS, a
Signatory Public Agency may have its participation in this LEMAA
involuntarily terminated. The terms and conditions shall describe
those situations where such involuntary termination may occur and
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the process to be followed to make the determination as to whether
involuntary termination shall occur.
f. Immunities - With respect to ILEAS and each and every Signatory
Public Agency to this LEMAA, becoming a Signatory Public Agency
to this LEMAA or performance under the terms of this LEMAA shall
not be deemed to waive any governmental immunity or defense to
which the Signatory Public Agency or ILEAS would otherwise be
entitled under statute or common law in the absence of this
LEMAA.
g. No Third Party Beneficiary -This LEMAA is not intended nor
expected to confer upon or entitle any person or entity, other than
ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA, any
information, benefits, advantages, rights or remedies. It is expressly
understood and agreed that enforcement of the terms and
conditions of this LEMAA, and all rights of action relating to such
enforcement, shall be strictly reserved to ILEAS and the Signatory
Public Agencies to this LEMAA and nothing contained in this
LEMAA shall give or allow any claim or right of action by any other
or third person or entity (including, but not limited to, members of
the general public) based on this LEMAA. it is the express intention
of ILEAS and the Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA that any
person or entity (other than ILEAS and the Signatory Public
Agencies to this LEMAA) who may be deemed to receive services
or benefits under this LEMAA shall be deemed to be only an
incidental beneficiary to this LEMAA.
h. Paragraph Headings - The captions and headings used in this
LEMAA are only for convenience of reference and the organization
of this LEMAA and shall not be construed as expanding, defining or
limiting the terms and provisions in this LEMAA.
L Severability if any part, term, or provision of this LEMAA is held by
the courts to be invalid, unenforceable, contrary to law or in conflict
with any of the laws of the State of Illinois, the validity of the
remaining portions or provisions shall not be affected, and the
rights and obligations of the Parties to this LEMAA shall be
construed and enforced as if the LEMAA did not contain the
particular part, term, or provision held to be invalid, unenforceable,
contrary to law or in conflict with any law of the State of Illinois.
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j. Parol Evidence and Prior Mutual Aid Agreements - This LEMAA
constitutes the entire agreement between the Signatory Public
Agencies concerning this LEMAA's subject matter, whether or not
written, and may not be modified except as otherwise provided
herein.
• As between Signatory Public Agencies, this LEMAA
supersedes, in its entirety, the Prior Mutual Aid Agreement
concerning its subject matter.
• As between Signatory Public Agencies to this LEMAA and
Prior Signatory Public Agencies who have not executed this
LEMAA, this LEMAA does not supersede the Prior Mutual
Aid Agreement.
• Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to affect other
Mutual Aid agreements that a Signatory Public Agency to
this LEMAA may have executed.
k. Amendments —As it may be desirable, from time to time, to amend
this LEMAA, this subsection shall govern that process. In the event
that one or more signatory public agencies wishes to propose an
amendment to this LEMAA, such signatory public agency(ies) shall
communicate the proposed amendment to the Governing Board in
the form of a resolution as to which there can be a vote for the
resolution or against the resolution. No resolution may come to a
vote unless at least ten (10) then-current signatory public agencies
(including the signatory public agency(ies) proposing the
amendment) endorse their written desire to have a vote on the
resolution. in not less than 30 days nor more than 180 days after
receipt of the proposed amendment with the requisite minimum of
ten (10) endorsements, the Board shall communicate the proposed
amendment to all then-current signatory public agencies to the
LEMAA together with the date and time by which the signatory
public agency must cast its vote for or against the resolution. Each
then-current signatory public agency is entitled to one vote. The
vote of the signatory public agency should be sent to whomever is
the Executive Director at the time of the cutoff for receipt of the
votes and such votes may be sent by letter, fax or email but may
not be communicated orally (in person or by telephone). The
sender assumes all risk that the communication of the vote will not
be received in time so early voting is encouraged. The cutoff date
and time for the vote to be received by the Executive Director must
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not be sooner than fourteen 14 days after the Board has sent out its
communication that an amendment has been proposed. The
Executive Director shall be the sole individual to determine if the
vote was received in a timely fashion in order to be counted and all
votes shall be tallied within one day after the date when the voting
was terminated. The resolution shall carry if the votes in favor of the
amendment constitute greater than fifty percent (50%) of the total
votes cast and shall fail if the votes against the amendment
constitute less than or equal to fifty percent (50%) of the total votes
cast. If the resolution carries, unless the resolution, by its terms,
provides for a later date when it would be effective, the amendment
is effective upon the determination by vote tally that the resolution
carried. As soon as reasonably possible after the results of the
voting have been determined, the Executive Director shall
communicate the results of the voting to all then-current signatory
public agencies.
L Notices - Notices concerning the withdrawal of a Signatory Public
Agency from the terms and conditions of this LEMAA under Section
5 of this LEMAA shall be made to ILEAS at 1701 E. Main St.,
Urbana, Illinois 61802. Notice of any alleged or actual violations of
the terms or conditions of this LEMAA shall be made to ILEAS at
1701 E. Main St., Urbana, Illinois 61802 and each other Signatory
Public Agency to this LEMAA who is alleged to have committed the
alleged or actual violation of the terms or conditions of this LEMAA.
M. Counterparts - This LEMAA may be, and is anticipated to be,
executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original of this LEMAA.
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In Witness Whereof, the Signatory Public Agency designated below enters into
this LEMAA with all other Signatory Public Agencies who have signed or will sign
this LEMAA pursuant to legal authorization granted to it under the Constitution of
the State of Illinois (Ill. Const. Art. VII, § 10), the Illinois Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act (5 ILCS 220/1 et seq.) and the final approval required of an
entity such as the undersigned Public Agency.
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state s under penalty of perjury that he/she is the duly authorized agent for the
Public Agency shown above, that he/she has read the cover letter accompanying
the LEMAA in its entirety, that the entity shown above the "Public Agency Name"
line, above, is a Public Agency within the meaning of 5 ILCS 220/1 et seq. and
that he/she signs this document pursuant to proper authority granted by that
public agency.
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Exhibit A
• William Smith, Captain, Illinois State Police
• Wayne Gulliford, Deputy Chief, Chicago Police Dept
• Steve Georgas, Deputy Chief, Chicago Police Dept
• Eric Smith, Chief of Police, Sherman, Illinois
• Tom Schneider, Sheriff, Macon County, Illinois
• David Snyders, Sheriff, Stephenson County, Illinois
• Victor Moreno, Chief of Police, East Moline, Illinois
• Thomas Roman, Chief of Police, Waubonsee Community College
• Roger Scott, Sheriff, DeKalb County, Illinois
• Steve Neubauer, Chief of Police, Tinley Park, Illinois
• John Zaruba, Sheriff, DuPage County, Illinois
• Mike McCoy, Sheriff, Peoria County, Illinois
• Brian Fengel, Chief of Police, Bartonville, Illinois
• Don Volk, Chief of Police, Washington, Illinois
• Derek Hagen, Sheriff, Iroquois County, Illinois
• Richard Miller, Chief of Police, Granite City, Illinois
• Jim Vazzi, Sheriff, Montgomery County, Illinois
• Andrew Hires, Sheriff, Richland County, Illinois
• Bill Ackman, Chief of Police, Robinson. Illinois
• Jody O'Guinn, Chief of Police, Carbondale, Illinois
• Keith Brown, Sheriff, Saline County, Illinois
or their respective successors per this LEMAA
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