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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 9254ORDINANCE NO. j AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, "ADMINISTRATION", OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS (1964), AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 2-54 THEREOF TO PROVIDE FOR MEMBERSHIP PLACES FOR THE FORT WORTH HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION; AMENDING SECTION 2-55 THEREOF TO PROVIDE FOR TWO-YEAR TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF THAT COMMISSION; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE OF OTHER ORDI- NANCES AND CODE PROVISIONS AND REPEALING ORDINANCES AND CODE PROVISIONS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SEVERA- BILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 2-54. "Created, Composition; Compensation of Members," Chapter 2, "Administration," of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1964), as amended, shall be further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 2-54. The City Council shall appoint citizens to a commission on human relations, which shall be known as the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission. The Commission shall be composed of twenty-one (21) members, who shall serve in places numbered one (1) through twenty-one (21). Each member of the Commission shall be a resident of the City. As nearly as is reasonably possible, the membership shall be fairly representative of all of the several economic, religious, cultural, ethnic and racial groups which comprise the population of the City. The members of the Human Relations Commission shall serve without compensation." SECTION 2. That Section 2-55, "Terms of Members; Filling Vacancies.", of Chapter 2, "Administration," of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1964), as amended, be and is hereby further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 2-55. Each member of the Commission shall be appointed to serve a term of two (2) years; provided, how- eger, that members appointed to odd-numbered places shall serve terms which expire October 1, 1985, and members appointed to even-numbered places shall serve terms which expire October 1, 1986. Thereafter, all members appointed shall serve two-year terms. No member shall serve more than three consecutive two-year terms, and the terms of current members of the Commission shall be counted toward the limit on the number of terms to be served. In the event any member of the Commission resigns or terminates his or her service for any reason before his or her term has expired, the City Council shall appoint a qualified successor to fill any vacancy which may result, to serve for the remainder of the term." SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordi- nances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1964), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code which concern the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed so far as they apply to or affect the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission. 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 unconstitu- tional 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 5. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption, Sections 1, 2 and 6 in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. 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: City Attorney Date: ADOPTED: EFFECTIVE: r .F,S itf: r I 1. .,7,, ~.:,, ~ L Ctity of Fort Worth, ~exacs ,cou , ~~: r ~~~~= If ~ ~~ ~ ~- ~ ~a ®r a~,d ~®uncil ~®rr~,uni~ati®n ~l ..~ ,.. ~. - ATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Amendment of Clty of Fort Worth PACE Kf?tt^4~'G ¢ TYt~R, ,~ ~r~;,;,; .~ NUMBER Ordinances Relating to Appointments to 2 ~1T%20~84 ~*G-6170 t or _ ~~ the Fort Worth Human Relations Commissi The City of Fort Worth Ordinances Nos. 8971 and 8753 regarding Boards and Com- missions stipulate that the Fort Worth Ht~n Relations Commission is exempt fr~n membership requirements which designate nine-member boards or commissions and two-year staggered terms. This exemption, therefore, allows the Commission to retain the length of Commissioners' terms at three years. Farther, Section 2-55 of Article VII, of the Fbrt Worth City Code presently states the follcxaing: "Each membr of the ccx*mission shall be appointed to serve a ter7*r of three years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified..." P,dditionally, ".. the City Oouncil shall appoint members to fill expiring terms, each of such appointmrents to be for a term of three-year terms." For same time, confusion has existed between the Handbook for Appointed Offi- cials and the Hurnan Relations Commission Ordinance; the former setting the terms of office at two-year terms and the latter at three-year terms. It is believed that rc~ore uniform procedures should be irtplerrented to effectuate consistency in operation for the Fbrt Worth i3»n Relations (Ananission as re- lated to terms of office for Commissioners. To achieve this goal, the terms of half of the places appointed at this time should be for one year and the other half should be for two years. Listed below are the Commissioners who are eli- gible to be reappointed and a recc~rrendation to which place they could be appointed. Place Nature 1 Wilma Philpott 2 Hector C. Beltram 3 Marisa Valderas 4 Charles F~monds 5 Leroy Sullivan 6 7Yxn Sassman 7 Ruth Kirkpatrick 8 Al Miller 9 Evelene Jones 10 P',anuel Jara 11 William Johnson, Jr. 12 Cruz Hernandez 13 henry Johnson 14 Larry Rice 15 Vacant 16 Vacant 17 Vacant 18 Vacant Council Term Expires/Year Member District Achieves 6 Year Niaximum 7 10-1-85/1987 2 10-1-86/1986 6 10-1-85/1987 4 10-1-86/1986 4 10-1-85/1987 6 10-1-86/1988 4 10-1-85/1987 6 10-1-86/1988 5 10-1-85/1985 6 10-1-86/1986 8 10-1-85/1985 6 10-1-86/1988 5 10-1-65/1985 9 10-1-86/1990 - 10-1-85/1989 - 10-1-86/1990 - 10-1--35/1989 - 10-1-86/1990 DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Amendment Of Czt}~ Of Fort Worth PAGE 11/20/84 NUMBER **G-6170 Ordinances Relatin t0 A ointments t0 g PP 2 2 the Fort Worth Human Relations Commissio °f Council Term Expires/Year Member Place Name District Achieves 6 Year Maximum 19 Vacant - 10-1-85 1989 20 Vacant - 10-1-86/1990 21 Vacant - 10-1-85/1989 The Commission Yeas seven vacancies at this time. Of the fourteen members cur- rently serving, four are White, six are Black, and four are Hispanic. Four are female, and ten Commissioners are male. Action by the City Council is required to appoint existing and new Conanission- ers to terms which will expire on October 1 of the appropriate years. Re ~,endation it is recommended tY~at 1) the City Council adopt the attached ordinance amending Section 2-55 of Ar- ticle VII, of the Fort Worth City Code to provide two-year terms for memr bars of the Hunan Relations c`~cxmtission; and 2) take action to appoint existing and new Conrnissioners to terms which will expire on October I of the appropriate years. RANI :kcq ,., ~, ,I,R; ~,t•+~ tr r ~ j( ~ .,~ .i Et.E~ ~ w~. SUBMITTED FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S /,/~/ OFFICE 8Y: ~ ~ / /~~ /L DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY („ t APPROVED ORIGINATING OTHER (DESCRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD Ramon Guaj ardo CITY SECRETARY i rGR PODITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT Marcia Hall-Craig 7525 rr- ~~'~ ~; ~r e_.,. 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