HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 11041ORDINANCE NO. v
AN ORDINANCE SPECIFYING THE ADJUSTED TOTAL NUMBER OF
AUTHORIZED CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS AT EACH RANK IN THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT; CREATING FIVE ADDITIONAL POLICE
OFFICER POSITi0N5 IN THE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING THAT THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT OF THIS
ORDINANCE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT HEREBY KNOWN:
WHEREAS, the Chief of Police has requested the City Council to
readjust and thereafter specify the total authorized number of
positions at each rank in the Police Department for the remainder
of the 1991-1992 Fiscal Year; and
WHEREAS, the most recent City ordinance concerning the
authorized and budgeted positions for the Police Department
adjusted the department's civil service staffing as follows:
Police Officers 699
Corporal/Detectives 172
Sergeants 111
Lieutenants 42
Captains 12
Deputy Chiefs 5
TOTAL 1,041
WHEREAS, pursuant to the continuing efforts to provide the
citizens of Fort Worth the most efficient police protection pos-
sible, the Police Department has requested Council approval to
assist the Fort Worth Independent School District's program of
providing Police/School Liaison Teams at selected schools. The
F.W.I.S.D. has agreed to reimburse the City for the associated
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personnel costs incurred by the City in exchange for the City
providing five {5) additional police officers for assignment to the
program.
WHEREAS, the Chief of Police now requests the Council to
adjust the authorized number of Police Department civil service
positions into conformity with the proposed changes as set forth
immediately above in order to effect efficient economy of the
operations of the City's municipal services; and
WHEREAS, the specification and authorization by ordinance of
the correct number of classified civil. service positions is now a
necessity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED:
SECTION 1.
That effective immediately, the following positions are the
only civil service positions authorized in the City of Fort Worth
Police Department for the remainder of the fiscal year 1991-1992 or
until modified by subsequent ordinance:
Police Officers
Corporal/Detectives
Sergeants
Lieutenants
Captains
Deputy Chiefs
TOTAL
*Creates five new positions.
704*
172
111
42
12
5
1,046
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SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisians of
previous ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth,
Texas {1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this
ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of prior civil
service staffing ordinances for the Police Department and such
Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and
such Code provisions are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of
this ordinance are severable, and, if any phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared uncon-
stitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect
any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and
sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted
by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of
any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section.
SECTION 4.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the
caption and effective date in the minutes of the City Council and
by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City.
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SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Date : 3 ' 3 - `T ~'
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