HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 3351-05-2006RESOLUTION NO. 3351-OS-2006
CANVASSING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE
SPECIAL CITY OF FORT WORTH ELECTION HELD ON MAY 13, 200b, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID
CITY, FOR ADOPTION OR REJECTION, PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
THE EXISTING CHARTER OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH
WHEREAS, on January 24 2006, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth adopted Ordinance
No 16797-O1 2006, later amended by 16824-02 2006, 16842-03-2006 and 16873-03-2006, ordering an
election to be held on Saturday May 13 2006 for the adoption or rejection of proposed amendments to
the existing charter of the City of Fort Worth and authorizing the City Council to designate the places at
which said election is to be held, and
WHEREAS, on May 13 2006, an election was held at which the qualified voters of the City had
the opportunity to vote for the purpose of adoption or rejection of proposed amendments to the existing
charter of the City of Fort Worth; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Chapter 67 ofthe Texas Election Code, the City Council of the City of
Fort Worth is required to hold a special election and canvass the returns and declare the results of the
election,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH:
SECTION 1. That the findings contained in the preamble of this Resolution are hereby found to
be true and correct; and shall be made a part hereof.
SECTION 2. That the City Council hereby finds a special election regarding the adoption or
rejection ofproposed amendments to the existing charter of the City of Fort Worth was held on May 13
2006, at which election qualified voters were given the opportunity to vote for the purpose of adoption
ar rejectian of proposed amendments to the existing charter of the City of Fort Worth.
SECTION 3. That the City Council further finds that the returns for such elections are as
follows:
PROPOSITION 1
An amendment of the City Charter, Chapter III,
Section 3 to be effective October 1 2006 to FOR 9 003
increase the compensation paid to each City
Council member to $25,000.00 per year and AGAINST 5,850
$29 000 00 per year for the Mayor
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PROPOSITION 2
An amendment to the City Charter Chapter III,
Section 5 to reduce the number of required
meetings of the City Council from 48 to 44 per
year to include both regular and special
meetings in the minimum number of meetings,
and to delete the minimum number of council
meetings per month and maximum number of
meetings per week.
FOR 10;571
AGAINST 4,133
PROPOSITION 3
An amendment to the City Charter Chapter III,
Section 4 and Chapter IV Section 2, providing
that all general, special and run off elections be
conducted on a date specified by state law
PROPOSITION 4
An amendment to the Crty Charter Chapter III,
Section 5 to provide that the swearing in of
newly elected council. members will occur at the
first City Council meeting after canvassing the
election results.
FOR 12,952
AGAINST 1661
FOR 13,232
AGAINST 1,263
PROPOSITION 5
An amendment to Chapter III, Section 8 ofthe
Crty Charter to provide that if a City Council
member shall become a candidate for nomination
or election to any other public office, the
member shall forfeit his or her council office but
shall continue to hold the office until a successor
is duly qualified, if the holding over in office is
required by state law
FOR 12,508
AGAINST 2,084
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PROPOSITION 6
An .amendment to the City Charter Chapter IV FOR 13 727
Section 1 and Chapter IV Section 3 to provide
that in addition to complying with state law AGAINST 1 066
residence requirements, a candidate for Mayor or
City Council must have continuously lived in the
Council District for which he or she seeks
election for 6 full months before the first allowed
filing date for the election.
PROPOSITION 7
An amendment to the City Charter Chapter V FOR 7,980
Section 4 to delete the requirement that the City
Manager post a bond. AGAINST 6,185
PROPOSITION 8
An amendment to Chapter XXI, Section 5 of the
City Charter to revise the publication and
referendum requirements for the sale of Crty- FOR 8,711
owned property to increase the value of the
property covered by the publication requirement AGAINST 5 150
from $25 000 to $125 000 and to increase the
number of required signatures for a referendum
on the sale from 500 to ten percent (10%) of the
number of voters who voted in the most recent
mayoral election.
PROPOSITION 9
An amendment to the City Charter Chapter FOR 11 198
XXII, Section 5 to provide that bids will be filed
and opened by the City Manager or his or her AGAINST 2,817
designee.
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PROPOSITION 10
An amendment to the City Charter Chapter FOR 11,550
~XII, Section 6, to provide that Improvement
Contracts shall be signed by the City Manager or AGAINST 2,510
his or her designee.
PROPOSITION 11
An amendment to delete obsolete provisions in FOR 10,683
Chapter XXIV Section 3 and Chapter XXIV
Section 14 of the City Charter regarding the AGAINST 3,326
collection of school taxes and the inclusion of
school taxes in the calculation of a maximum tax
rate.
PROPOSITION 12
An amendment to Chapter XXV Section 2 of FOR 10 442
the Crty Charter to allow the publishing of a
summary ofthe ordinance granting a franchise or AGAINST 3 485
easement across or upon streets or public places
instead of the entire ordinance.
PROPOSITION 13
An amendment to the City Charter to delete FOR 9,379
Chapter XXVII, Section 6 to conform with
federal law prohibiting the city from giving AGAINST 4 840
preference to Fort Worth citizens when huing
department heads and assistant department
heads.
PROPOSITION 14
FOR 9,982
An amendment to the Crty Charter to delete
Chapter XXVII, Section 8 requirement to add AGAINST 3 946
standardized wage rate language in city
contracts.
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PROPOSITION 15
An amendment to Chapter XXVII, Section 16 of FOR 11 847
the City Charter to provide that an officer or an
employee of a bank that serves as the Crty's AGAINST 2,500
depository bank shall be deemed not to have a
financial interest m a city contract.
SECTION 4. That the City Council further finds that such returns are correct, and adopts them
as the returns of the special election held on May 13 2006, a copy of the Official Cumulative Report is
attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein, an Official Precinct Report is on file with the
Fort Worth City Secretary's Office.
SECTION 5. That the above fisted Propositions be declared adopted by the City of Fort Worth
and the Fort Worth Charter shall be amended to reflect the above adopted Propositions.
SECTION 6. That the meeting of the Fort Worth City Council, at which this Resolution was
adopted, was open to the public and that public notice of the tune, place and purpose of said meeting and
given, as required by Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code.
SECTION 7. That the Resolution shall take effect upon adoption on this 23rd day of May
2006
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