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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem Q09 51:4 RESOLUTION NO. - 2025 A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS(BOCC) REGARDING COUNTY ADMINISTRATION; RESCINDING RESOLUTION 195-2025 APPOINTING CORY SCHWISOW AS THEN INTERIM EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR; APPOINTING CORY SCHWISOW AS THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 5, 2025; VESTING HIM WITH FULL AUTHORITY TO ACT PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY SET FORTHUNDERF.S. 252.38, SECTIONS 11- 1 THROUGH 11-5 OF THE MONROE COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCE, AND ALL OTHER RELEVANT LAWS, REGULATIONS, AND POLICIES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, F.S. 252.38(1)(b)1 requires each County to have an Emergency Management Director; and WHEREAS, F.S. 252.38 vests a county’s emergency management director with a number of responsibilities and authorities; and WHEREAS, the previous Monroe County Emergency Management Director, Shannon Davis Weiner, submitted her resignation effective 5 p.m. on May 30, 2025; and WHEREAS, BOCC Resolution 195-2025 appointed Cory Schwisow as the County’s Interim Emergency Management Director effective 5 p.m. on May 30, 2025; and WHEREAS, F.S. 252.38(1)(b)4 requires that the County Commission promptly notify the Florida Division of Emergency Management of the appointment of a director and other personnel; and WHEREAS, Sections 11-1 through 11-5 of the County Code vests the Emergency Management Director with certain responsibilities including but not limited to issuing directives having the effect of law as well as purchasing authority of up to $1 million without requiring additional approvals during a declared emergency; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted a new organization chart on September 10, 2025, effective on October 1, 2025; whereby the Emergency Management Department was renamed as an Emergency Management Office, under the Emergency Services 51:5 Department; and WHEREAS, the Board finds it in the best interests of theCounty to name Cory Schwisow as its Emergency Management Directorof the Emergency Management Officeand to vest Mr. Schwisow with all of the authority and responsibility that accompanies a county emergency management director; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners wishes to provide for a delegation of authority in order to ensure that Mr. Schwisow has the necessary powers and authorities to serve in the capacity of Emergency Management Director of the Emergency Management Office; and WHEREAS, F.S. 252.38andSections 11-3 and11-4 of the County Code list the power and duties that may be exercised by the County’s Emergency Management Director; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners wishes to ensure that all powers and authorities that would be accorded to the county Emergency Management Director through Chapter 252, Florida Statutes, the Monroe County Code, and other Monroe County policies and procedures, are made equally available to Cory Schwisow in his capacity as the of the Emergency Management Office, through an express Emergency Management Director delegation of authority; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners wishes to rescind Resolution 195- 2025 appointing Mr. Schwisow as the Interim Director, Emergency Management and appoint him as the Emergency Management Director of the Emergency Management Office with all of the same authorities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVEDBY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. FINDINGS. The findings contained in the recitals set forth above are true and correct. SECTION 2. RESCISSION.Resolution 195-2025 is repealed in its entirety. SECTION 3. APPOINTMENTOF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR. Cory Schwisow is hereby appointed as the Emergency Management Director of the Emergency Management Office, for Monroe County, effective as of Sunday October 5, 2025. SECTION4.AUTHORITYOFCOUNTYEMERGENCYMANAGEMENT DIRECTOR. A. Legal Authority. The Emergency Management Director shall have the authority to carry out all functions, powers and duties assigned to the position of County Emergency Management Director in state law, the Code, and other applicable regulations, ExecutiveOrders,and 51:6 allresolutions, policies andproceduresof the County. B.Administration: The Emergency Management Director shall carry out all functionsotherwiseassignedtotheCountyAdministratorundertheAct and the Code necessary to serve as the administrative head of the County. Authorities delegated to the Acting County Administrator in order to accomplish this purpose include signatory authority for all contracts legally approved and entered into by the County pursuant to the Act, the Code, general laws of the State of Florida, and the County's Purchasing Policy. SECTION 5. NOTIFICATION TO FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The Clerk is directed to transmit a copy of this resolution to Kevin Guthrie, Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Kevin.Guthrie@em.myflorida.com; SECTION 6.SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause or provision of this Resolution is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not be construed to render invalid or unconstitutional the remaining sections, sentences, clauses or provisions of this Resolution. SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Resolution shall take effectretroactively to October 5, 2025. PASSED AND ADOPTED bythe Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting held on the15th of October 2025. Mayor James K. Scholl Mayor ProTemMichelleLincoln CommissionerCraigCates Commissioner David Rice CommissionerHollyMerrill Raschein (SEAL)BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: KEVIN MADOK, CLERK OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:_____________________________ By:______________________________ As Deputy Clerk Mayor James K. Scholl 51:7 51:8 51:9 51::