HomeMy WebLinkAbout(0036) v2 PD Staffing Ordinance FY21.PDFORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ADJUSTING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AUTHORIZED
SWORN POSITIONS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BY ADDING TEN
POSITIONS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF POLICE OFFICER, ADDING
SIX POSITIONS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF
CORPORAL/DETECTIVE, AND ADDING ONE POSITION IN THE
CLASSIFICATION OF SERGEANT, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2020;
PROVIDING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT; PROVIDING
THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE OF ALL PRIOR
ORDINANCES AND REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Section 143.021(a), Texas Local Government Code provides that a
municipality's governing body shall by ordinance (i) establish the classifications of police
officers and (ii) prescribe the number of positions in each classification; and
WHEREAS, on September 24, 2019, the City Council adopted Ordinance 23872-
09-2019, which established the Police Department's sworn personnel staffing levels,
effective October 1, 2019, as follows:
Assistant Chief
3
Deputy Chief
5
Commander
6
Captain
17
Lieutenant
50
Sergeant
196
Corporal/Detective
242
Police Officer
1,193
Total
1,712; and
WHEREAS, the recently approved Meet and Confer Labor Agreement (CFW
Contract Number 54366) calls for the creation of one additional position to accommodate
the President of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association (POA), allowing the individual
in that position to conduct union business using donated leave hours while simultaneously
ensuring that the department retains a full complement of authorized positions to conduct
police business; and
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WHEREAS, the current POA President serves in the rank of sergeant and an
additional position in that classification must be created, with the understanding that such
position is intended, through subsequent ordinances, to be eliminated and replaced with
another position in the appropriate classification as the current President changes ranks or
when another individual, serving in a different rank, assumes such role; and
WHEREAS, the Police Chief has requested that the City Council increase the
number of authorized positions within the existing classification of Police Officer by ten
(10) and within the existing classification of Corporal/Detective by six (6), effective
October 1, 2020, to reflect the Civil Service staffing included in the Fiscal Year 2021
Budget to provide thirteen positions (seven police officers and six corporals/detectives)
associated with the COPS hiring grant and to provide three additional School Resource
Officers for Crowley ISD and Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD, and thereafter prescribe the
number of authorized positions in the Police Department to conform with the proposed
changes as set forth below in order to effect efficient economy of the operations of the
Police Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That, following the formal adoption of this ordinance, the following positions shall
be the only sworn positions in each classification (rank) authorized in the City of Fort
Worth Police Department effective October 1, 2020, until modified by subsequent
ordinance:
Assistant Chief
3
Deputy Chief
5
Commander
6
Captain
17
Lieutenant
50
Sergeant
197
Corporal/Detective
248
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Police Officer 1,203
Total 1,729
SECTION 2.
That the "Mayor and Council Communication" memorandum, which is presented
contemporaneously with this ordinance, is hereby expressly incorporated herein by
reference for further clarification and explanation of the purpose and intent of the City
Council in its adoption of this ordinance as well as the Department in its implementation.
SECTION 3.
That this ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of previous ordinances and
of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (2015), as amended, except where the
provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of prior police staffing
ordinances for the Police Department and such Code, in which event conflicting provisions
of such ordinances and such code provisions are hereby repealed and this ordinance shall
be controlling.
SECTION 4.
That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of these ordinances 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.
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SECTION 5.
That this ordinance shall be effective October 1, 2020, with respect to the addition
of seventeen (17) positions included in the adopted budget as reflected above, and it is so
ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ATTEST:
Denis McElroy, Asst. City Attorney
ADOPTED:
EFFECTIVE: October 1, 2020
Mary J. Kayser, City Secretary
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