I-5 - Resolution 2025-011 - Automatic and Mutual Aid Agreement for Surrounding Johnson County - 2025

Member departments shall provide training regarding this agreement, MABAS, and common response guidelines to all the department’s personnel who may respond to automatic or mutual aid under this agreement. Member departments may offer and make available training opportunities, training props, and/or other training resources to each other. It is the intent of the parties to allow for and encourage departments to share and make available training to other departments’ personnel and to conduct joint training, drills, and exercises. Member departments shall conduct joint training at a minimum with other departments whom they are most likely to request assistance from, or provide assistance to, under this agreement. The chief of each member department or the chief’s designee(s) will evaluate and identify training needs with consideration of the risks and hazards of their first-due districts. Generally, chiefs or their designees should collaborate on joint training topics, drills, or exercises. Training topics and the frequency of the training, drills, or exercises will be determined by, and may be agreed on, between the member departments’ chiefs or designees. SECTION V. COMMAND AT SCENE In accordance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the responding department personnel and equipment shall report to the incident commander of the requesting department, who shall be in charge at the incident location unless he/she specifically relinquishes this authority to another officer. The incident commander shall have the power to issue reasonable orders and directives, and responding officers will then act on the orders unless they are unlawful or unsafe. The responding department personnel and equipment shall be released by the requesting department when the services of the responding department are no longer required or when the responding department personnel and/or equipment are needed in their first-due (home) districts. Responding personnel and equipment may withdraw from the requesting district upon giving notice to the command officer at the incident location that they are needed in their first-due (home) district. JECC will be notified over the radio and will document the withdrawal time to the incident call for service record. It is understood that the purpose of this section is to maintain order and safety at the incident scene and shall not be construed to establish an employer/employee relationship. SECTION VI. NO REIMBURSEMENT FOR COSTS No member department shall be required to reimburse any other member department for the cost of providing the services set forth in this agreement. Each member department shall pay its own costs (salaries, repairs, materials, compensation) for responding to the requests of other member departments. However, the requesting department shall provide without charge, such additional