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AN ORDINANCE SPECIFYING THE ADJUSTED TOTAL NUMBER OF
AUTHORIZED CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS AT EACH RANK IN THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT; ADDING THREE FIREFIGHTER POSITIONS TO
THE TOTAL AUTHORIZED STAFFING; ADDING ONE ENGINEER
POSITION TO THE TOTAL AUTHORIZED STAFFING; PROVIDING THE
STATEMENT OF INTENT TO DELETE TWO CAPTAIN AND ONE
LIEUTENANT POSITIONS AT A LATER DATE FROM THE TOTAL
AUTHORIZED STAFFING; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL
BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING
FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT HEREBY KNOWN:
WHEREAS, the Fire Chief has requested the City Council to
readjust and thereafter specify the total authorized number of
positions at each rank in the Fire Department for the remainder of
the 1991-1992 Fiscal Year; and
WHEREAS, the City's Appropriation Ordinance for the Fiscal
Year 1991-1992, the most recent ordinance concerning the authorized
and budgeted positions for the Fire Department, adjusted the
department's civil service staffing, as follows:
Deputy Chiefs 6
Battalion Chiefs 17
Captains 7b*
Lieutenants 98**
Engineers 156***
Firefighters 308
TOTAL 661
* Includes two overage positions to be deleted.
** Includes one overage position to be deleted.
*** Includes two overage positions to be deleted.
Included in the same appropriations ordinance was also the
Council's statement of intent that five civil service positions
consisting of two engineer positions, one lieutenant position and
two captain positions were to be deleted from the Fire Department
during the fiscal year as attrition occurs, which would result in
a new authorized strength of 656 authorized positions as follows:
308 firefighters, 154 engineers, 97 lieutenants, 74 captains, 17
battalion chiefs and 6 deputy chiefs; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the enactment of said Appropriations
Ordinance, litigation involving Fire Department staffing and duties
concerning the City's Meacham Airport Aircraft Crash and Rescue
operations was concluded resulting a court judgment requiring said
crash and rescue operations to thereafter be performed by the
City's Fire Department rather than the existing Aviation
Department's non-civil service personnel; and
WHEREAS, other positions in the Fire Department have become
vacant due to employee retirement, illness or involuntary termina-
tions; and
WHEREAS, the Chief of the Fire Department naw requests that
the Council adjust the authorized number of Fire Department civil
service positions as set forth immediately below in order to effect
efficient economy of the operations of the City's municipal ser-
vices; and
WHEREAS, the specification and authorization of the correct
number of budgeted civil service positions is now a necessity; NOW,
THEREFORE,
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That, effective as of the date of adoption of this ordinance,
the following positions are the only civil service positions autho-
rized in the City of Fort worth Fire Department for the remainder
of the fiscal year 1991-1992:
Deputy Chiefs g
Battalion Chiefs 17
Captains 76*
Lieutenants g$**
Engineers 157***
Firefighters 311****
TOTAL 665
* Includes two captain positions to be deleted upon the next
vacancies
** Includes one lieutenant position to be deleted upon the next
vacancies
*** Includes two engineer positions which were previously
intended to be deleted plus one new additional position
**** Increase in three new firefighter positions to be filled from
the next academy class
SECTION 2
The City Council hereby expresses its intent to delete certain
positions within the Fire Department, meaning that from time to
time and as normal attrition from the department occurs, certain
positions being occupied by civil service personnel will be removed
from the classified service by ordinance Those positions to iae
deleted include two (2) Captain positions and one (1) Lieutenant
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position, thus resulting in a total of 662 authorized civil service
positions in the Fire Department. This expression of intent to
delete said positions upon the occurrence of the appropriate vacan-
cies is provided so as to negate any expectation of promotion
opportunity at said ranks until after said positions have been
deleted.
SECTION 3
This ordinance shall be cumulative of a-11 provisions of pre-
vious ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas
(1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this staffing
ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordi-
nances and such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such
ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed.
The "Mayor and Council Communication" memorandum contemporan-
eous with this ordinance is hereby expressly incorporated herein by
reference as if repeated verbatim in this paragraph for further
clarification and explanation of the purpose and intent of the
Council in its adoption of this ordinance.
SECTION 4.
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 unconsti-
tutional 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
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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 5
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 of
Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION 6.
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:
OE~/~'Y ' ty Attorney I
Date : 3 - /.2 ' R Z
ADOPTED: ~ ~~' ~~,~'
EFFECTIVE:
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