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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCP 172 gum : HIM VLJVUUUUI ■ aim POLICY PROPOSAL DATE FILE NUMBER SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE CONCERNING PAGE_L_OF 2 3/12/92 CP-172 TIME FOR CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES TO RESPON PROPOSAL PROPOSED BY: C ANAOER'f R IEW Councilman Chappell Proposal: It is proposed that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance which prescribes reasonable standards with respect to the time within which City employees who reside outside the city limits must respond to a civil emergency. Discussion: Section 150.021 of the Texas Local Government Code authorizes cities to prescribe reasonable standards with respect to the time within which city employees who reside outside the city limits must respond to a civil emergency. Such standards may not be imposed retroactively on any person in the employ of a city at the time the standards are adopted. It is proposed that emergency response standards be adopted for certain City of Fort Worth employees who reside outside the city limits. The attached ordinance would establish the following requirements: a) City employees who reside outside the city limits and are required to respond to a civil emergency would have to reside at a location which permits them to respond to such an emergency within 30 minutes. b) The response time would be measured by the time required for the employee to travel from his or her residence to the emergency by automobile at posted speed limits in ordinary weekday traffic. C) The ordinance would not apply to persons who are employed by the City when the ordinance is adopted. d) Employees who are hired after adoption of the ordinance and reside outside the city limits would have to comply with the ordinance within six months after they are hired. e) The City Manager could grant written exceptions from the requirements of the ordinance when he must fill a job and is not reasonably able to find a person who ' meets the requirements of the ordinance. f) The ordinance would not prohibit the City from requiring that elected officials, the City Manager, City Attorney, City Secretary, City Auditor or Judges of th .Municipal Courts reside within the city limits. LEOAUTY FISCAL NOTE❑ At ��`• CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS [3 `�• no� ' POLICY PROPOSAL (cont'd) PAGEZ,OF_2 a Legality: The City Attorney has reviewed this proposal. The proposal is within the powers of the City Council and there are no legal impediments to its implementation. City Manager's Comments: The City Manager has reviewed this proposal and supports it. RECORD,, APPROVED BY j CITY COUNCIL •? w MAR 12 1992 + City Secretary of the j City of Fort Wonh.Texcw i CRY OF FORT WORTH b B ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, "ADMINISTRATION" , OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS ( 1986) , AS AMENDED, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 2-189, "RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES; STANDARDS FOR RESPONSE BY CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES TO CIVIL EMERGENCIES" ; PRO- VIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PRO- VIDING A SEVERABILITY 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 Chapter 2, "Administration" , of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas ( 1986) , as amended, be and is hereby amended by adding the following new section: Sec. 2-189 . Residency Requirements for City Employees; Standards for Respons Certain City Employees to Civil Emergencies . ( � a'� �T�► Y a) City employees are required to reside U(Ath. the United States as a condition of employment. ---- b) City employees are not required to reside within the city limits as a condition of employment. This subsection b) does not prohibit the establishment of such a residency requirement for: 1) the Mayor, a City Councilmember, a candidate for Mayor or a candidate for City Councilmember; 2) the City Manager, City Attorney, City Secretary, City Auditor or Judges of the Municipal Courts . C) City employees who reside outside the city limits and must respond to a civil emergency are required to reside at a location which allows them to respond to such an emergency within thirty minutes . The response time shall be measured by the time required for the employee to travel from his or her residence to the emergency by automobile at posted speed limits in ordinary weekday traffic. d) Subsection c) shall not apply to City employees who reside utsid the city limits and are hired on or before / 1992 . Employees who reside outside 't a city limits and are hired after such date shall meet he requirements of subsection c) within six months after they are hired. e) When the City Manager must fill a job which is subject to the response time requirements of Subsection c) but is not reasonably able to find a person who meets such requirements, the Manager may grant an exception therefrom. Such exception must be in writing and signed by the Manager. SECTION 2 . This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas ( 1986 ) , as amended, except where the provisions of the 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. SECTION 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention . ©fthe Ci • 'kK Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences , clauses ' d 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, 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. 2 s } 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. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: 4%A..� Q4 - City Attorney Date: 3 - 5 — 1 ADOPTED: EFFECTIVE: 3