HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10422ORDINANCE N0.
AN ORDINANCE SPECIFYING THE ADJUSTED TOTAL NUMBER OF
AUTHORIZED CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS AT EACH RANK IN THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT; ADDING ONE POSITION AT THE ENTRY
LEVEL RANK OF POLICE OFFICER; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDI-
NANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT OF
THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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 1989-1990 Fiscal Year, and
WHEREAS, the City's Annual Budget Ordinance, effective
October 1, 1989, the most recent ordinance concerning the autho-
rized and budgeted positions for the Police Department, adjusted
the Department civil service staffing, as follows:
Police Officers 653
Corporal/Detectives 171
Sergeants 104
Lieutenants 43
Captains 12
Deputy Chiefs 4
TOTAL 987
WHEREAS, the Fort Worth Independent School District
("FWISD") has recently approved funding to provide payment for
the expenses to be incurred in adding one additional police
officer to their on-going Police/School Liaison Team Program; and
WHEREAS, the FWISD has now requested the Chief of Police to
provide one additional police officer for said program with the
agreement that the FWISD will thereafter reimburse the City for
all costs involved in providing the officer; and
WHEREAS, the duties of the officer will be to assist offi-
cials of the FWISD with criminal offenses occurring within the
public school system.
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 efficiency and economy in
operation of the City's municipal services; and
WHEREAS, the specification and authorization of the correct
number of budgeted civil service positions is now a necessity;
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
Effective as of the enactment date of this ordinance, the
following positions are the only civil service positions autho-
rized in the City of Fort Worth Police Department for the remain-
der of the fiscal year 1989-1990:
Police Officers* 654
Corporal/Detectives 171
Sergeants 104
Lieutenants 43
Captains 12
Deputy Chiefs 4
TOTAL 988
*Increase of one position.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of pre-
vious ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas
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(1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance
are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and
such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordi-
nances and such Code are hereby repealed.
The "Mayor and Council Communication" memorandum of
October 31, 1A8~_, reference No. x,_8298 , is hereby expressly
incorporated herein by reference for further clarification and
explanation of the purpose and intent of the Council in their
adoption of this ordinance.
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 unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall
not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, para-
graphs 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, sen-
tence, 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 cap-
tion 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.
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NUMBER SUBJECT ADJUSTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE PAGE
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RECOMMENDATION _
It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached ordinance
specifying the authorized positions in the Police Department and increasing
the Police Department's authorized strength by adding one Police Officer
position ,effective November 1, 1989.
DISCUSSION:
The Police Department's 1989-90 adopted budget includes 987 authorized civil
service positions beginning October 1, 1989.
In August 1989, The Fort Worth Independent School District Board approved
funding for an additional Police/School Liaison Team. The school district in
cooperation with the Police Department has a program referred to as the
Police/School Liaison Teams. The program began in 1965 with one team and
consists of a school advisor and police officer on each team. As
disciplinary problems and criminal violence increased in the schools,
additional teams were added to the program, until reaching its present level
of six Police/School Liaison Teams. The teams respond to calls for
assistance from Fort Worth Independent School District principals which may
involve disciplinary problems or a criminal offense. If the request for
assistance involves a disciplinary problem then it is the responsibility of
the school advisor. If the request for assistance involves a criminal
offense, then the police officer is responsible. Most calls for assistance
involve both disciplinary problems and criminal offenses, in which case both
the school advisor and police officer respond and are responsible for their
respective areas of jurisdiction.
The school district pays for all costs involved for a police officer assigned
to the Police/School Liaison Team.
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DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL.
^ APPROVED
PROCESSED BY
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DEPARTMENT HEAD _ Chief Windham CITY SECRETARY
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