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Home My WebLink AboutIR 7576 INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No 7576 .A11 T I,,f, January 21, 1992 ' so R;, To the Mayor and Members of the City Council 0 Z3 PROPOSED-ORDINANCE SEWING STANDARDS FOR Subject: RESMNSF,,BY Crff EMPLOYEES TO CIVEL EMERGENCIES Introduction. The purpose of this informal report is to provide the City Council with information about an ordinance being proposed by Councilman David Chappell which would require City employees who must respond to a civil emergency to reside at a location which allows them to respond to such an emergency within thirty (30) minutes. Mr. Chappell's proposal attempts to address City Council and citizen concerns about the growing number of City employees who live outside the corporate limits of Fort Worth. Residency of City Employees. Since 1983, the number of City employees residing outside the City limits of Fort Worth has increased almost by 10%. Sworn fire employees residing outside Fort Worth increased from 52.1% in 1983 to 69.2% today. During the same period, sworn police employees increased from 51.7% to 60% and General employees increased from 27.9% to 39.9%. A detailed analysis by county and race is attached at Attachments A, B, C, and D. State Law on Residency Requirements. Under state law, Local Government Code, Section 150.21, "a municipality may not require residency within the municipal limits as a condition of employment with the municipality.." Residency requirements may be established for municipal department heads appointed by the City Council, e.g. City Manager, City Attorney, City Secretary, and City Auditor, and Municipal Court Judges. Also, the City Council may prescribe reasonable standards with respect to the time within which municipal employees who reside outside the municipal limits must respond to a civil emergency. Such standards may not be imposed retroactively on any person in the employ of the municipality at the time the standards are adopted. The proposed ordinance was drafted by City Attorney, Wade Adkins, to comply with this statute. Proposed Ordinance. The proposed ordinance follows the state law. Under the proposed ordinance, City employees who must respond to a civil emergency are required to reside at a location which allows them to respond to such an emergency within thirty (30) 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. The proposed ordinance is prospective and would not affect employees employed on or before the effective date. New hires, who would be required to meet the above standard, would have to meet the requirements within six (6) months after they are hired. The proposed ordinance also permits the City Manager to make an exception to the requirements of the ordinance when unable to-find a person who meets the response time requirements. Review Process by City Staff: At Mr. Chappell's request, the City Attorney and Personnel Director were asked to recommend which positions would be subject to the civil emergency response time requirements. City department heads were given a draft of the proposed ordinance and were asked for their comments as well as identify those job titles and/or employees who would be subject to responding to a civil emergency. A list of job titles identified by department heads is shown at I Attachment E. A summary of the comments received is shown below. L ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 7576 January 21, 1992 To the Mayor and Members of the City Council Page 2 of 10 PROPOSED ORDINANCE SETTING STANDARDS FOR Subject: RESPONSE BY CITY EMPLOYEES TO CIVIL EMERGENCIES Summary of Comments: The primary concern of the comments centered on the concept of a "time response" to civil emergencies. A number of questions were raised: "Section 2-189, subsection may be too restrictive. An employee residing within the southern city limits of Fort Worth may not be able to respond to a civil emergency occurring at Alliance Airport within the 30-minute requirement." "Even if all employees lived within the city limits of Fort Worth, it is impossible to predict where an emergency may occur, at what time, or under what conditions, and therefore impossible to state with certainty where and at what distance an employee must live in order to comply." "Some employees who live outside Tarrant County are actually closer to the police building than others who live inside the city limits." "..recommend that the words promoted or appointed be added to Section 2-189." "A central reporting primary work site needs to be established for the City or by department where multiple work reporting sites are in place." "Without centralizing the place to report for emergencies, a change in job assignments from day to day, or week to week could be very disruptive to carrying out the spirit of the proposed ordinance." "Subsequent to and probably several hours into the civil emergency we would have to form our damage assessment teams. This activation of the teams would be initiated by our representatives in the EOC. While these damage assessment teams would be responding to a civil emergency when asked to report, there is no need to require them to be able to respond within the 30-minute timeframe of the EOC activation. "..there are those City employees that must respond immediately to a civil emergency and the 30-minute time limit is appropriate. Those who are required to respond to the same civil emergency at a later time should be allowed additional time. This can be better explained by calling those required to respond within 30-minutes as "emergency response personnel" and those required to respond at a later timeframe be called "backup response personnel." "It might be helpful to define "civil emergency" within the context of this ordinance. Who declares such, City Manager or his designee?" "How will the ordinance be enforced? If an employee does not report in 30 minutes, are they subject to disciplinary action including termination? How will City know if new hire has met the requirement in 6 months? How can it be determined if an employee can report in 30 minutes by where they live?" ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 7576 ATIA, January 21, 1992 a To the Page 3 of 10 for e Mayor and Members of the City Council A. ;? 0 Subject: PROPOSED ORDINANCE SETTING STANDARDS FOR RESPONSE BY CITY EMPLOYEES TO CIVIL EMERGENCIES Review by City Council: At the January 21 City Council meeting, staff will be available to respond to questions about the ordinance, the state law or the information in this informal report. Please advise if additional information is needed. DAVID IVORY CITY MANAGE DI:n ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 4 of 10 NON-RESIDENTS: ALL DEPARTMENTS COUNTY TOTAL WHITE BLACK HISPANIC OTHER ANDERSON 1 1 BOSQUE 5 5 COLLIN 1 1 COOKE 2 2 DALLAS 58 35 16 2 5 DELTA 1 1 DENTON 16 13 1 1 1 ELLIS 3 3 ERATH 11 11 GRAYSON 1 1 HILL 13 12 1 HOOD 48 46 2 HUNT 1 1 JOHNSON 273 250 10 12 1 KAUFMAN 1 1 LAMAR 1 1 LEON 5 4 1 MONTAGUE 3 3 NAVARRO 2 1 1 PALO PINTO 9 9 PARKER 311 295 2 13 1 SOMMERVELL 2 2 TARRANT 1468 1155 170 118 25 WISE 50 45 1 3 1 TOTAL EMPLOYEES 4990 CITY WIDE COUNT 3194 1122 612 62 TOTAL OUT OF FW 2286 1898 202 151 35 OF TOT OUT OF FW 45.81 OF TOTAL 59.42 18. 00 24. 67 56.45 PERSONNEL, JANUARY 15, 1992 ATTACHMENT A RACECALL Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 5 of 10 NON-RESIDENTS: CIVIL SERVICE FIRE EMPLOYEES COUNTY TOTAL WHITE BLACK HISPANIC OTHER BOSQUE 3 3 DALLAS 4 1 3 DENTON 4 4 ERATH 10 10 HILL 2 2 HOOD 26 24 2 HUNT 1 1 JOHNSON 80 76 2 2 LEON 1 1 NAVARRO 1 1 PALO PINTO 8 8 PARKER 79 74 5 TARRANT 223 187 21 14 1 WISE 14 13 1 TOTAL SWORN COUNT 659 513 80 64 3 TOTAL OUT OF FW 456 403 26 24 3 OF TOT OUT OF FW 69 . 20 OF TOTAL 78.56 32 .50 37 . 50 100 tl 1 PERSONNEL, JANUARY 15, 1992 ATTACHMENT B RACECFIRE Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 6 of 10 NON—RESIDENTS CIVIL SERVICE POLICE EMPLOYEES COUNTY TOTAL WHITE BLACK HISPANIC OTHER DALLAS 15 9 5 1 DELTA 1 1 DENTON 3 3 ELLIS 2 2 ERATH 1 1 HILL 1 1 HOOD 10 10 JOHNSON 90 84 2 4 LEON 3 3 NAVARRO 1 1 PALO PINTO 1 1 PARKER 108 102 1 4 1 TARRANT 355 304 22 25 4 WISE 9 7 1 1 TOTAL SWORN POLICE 797 116 86 7 TOTAL OUT OF FW 600 529 31 35 5 TOTAL EMPLOYEES 1006 % OF TOT OUT OF FW 59. 64 OF TOTAL RACE 66.37 26.72 40.70 71.43 PERSONNEL, JANUARY 15, 1992 ATTACHMENT C RACECPOL Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 7 of 10 r TEN YEAR ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYEES LIVING OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS OF FORT WORTH EMPLOYEE GROUP GENERAL POLICE FIRE ALL 1983 27 .90% 51.70% 52 . 10% 36.70% 1984 27. 00% 51.70% 54 . 30% 35 . 20% 1985 31.80% 53 . 60% 59 . 50% 39. 70% 1986 33 . 40% 55.40% 59. 90% 41. 30% 1987 34 .50% 55. 50% 62 . 00% 42 . 40% 1988 34 .84% 57. 80% 62 . 38% 43 . 30% 1989 36. 60% 57.90% 62 . 90% 43 . 06% 1990 36.42% 59. 10% 65. 04% 44 .72% 1991 36.25% 59. 69% 64 . 81% 44 . 61% 1992 39.88% 60. 04% 69. 20% 48.22% PERSONNEL, JANUARY 15, 1992 ATTACHMENT D OUTCOM010 Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 8 of 10 POSITIONS IDENTIFIED BY DEPARTMENT HEADS TO BE SUBJECT CIVIL EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIME REQUIREMENTS DEPARTMENT CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT CITY MANAGER ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS (5) DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DEPART- MENT HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES ALL H & HS PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RELATIONS DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RELATIONS ADMINISTRATOR OF HUMAN RELATIONS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING INTERNAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT CITY AUDITOR CITY SECRETARY DEPARTMENT CITY SECRETARY LEGAL DEPARTMENT CITY ATTORNEY FISCAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL SERVICES PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL ASSISTANT PERSONNEL DIRECTOR RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR OF RISK MANAGEMENT ATTACHMENT E (3) Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 9 of 10 TRANS/PUB.WKS. DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF TRANS/PUB.WKS. SELECTED KEY MANAGEMENT ALL OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL CITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF CITY SERVICES PLANNING DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF PLANNING PUBLIC EVENTS DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC EVENTS POLICE DEPARTMENT POLICE CHIEF ALL SWORN POLICE OFFICERS ALL CIVILIAN HELICOPTER PILOTS ALL CIVILIAN IN COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION ALL CIVILIAN IN OFFENSE REPORT AND DECOR CIVILIAN TRAFFIC CONTROL SPECIALIST FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRE CHIEF ALL CIVIL SERVICE FIRE PERSONNEL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR SENIOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICER VEHICLE SERVICES SUPERVISOR MUNICIPAL COURT DIRECTOR OF MUNICIPAL COURT SERVICES CITY MARSHAL CHIEF DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL ALL DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL WATER DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF WATER HEALTH DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH/TECHNICAL/REGULATIONS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH/MEDICAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE (2) AVIATION DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF AIRPORT SYSTEMS AIRPORT MANAGER AIRPORT OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR AIRPORT MAINTENANCE SUPERINTENDENT BUILDING OPERATOR III MAINTENANCE MECHANIC II ATTACHMENT E (3) Informal Report No. 7576 January 21, 1992 Page 10 of 10 PARK/RECREATION DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF PARK AND RECREATIONS ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF PARK AND RECREATIONS (3) PARK OPERATIONS SUPERINTENDENTS (2) CITY FORESTER FORESTRY SUPERVISOR PARK SUPERVISOR 11 (3) PARK SUPERVISOR 1 (6) TRADES SUPERVISOR LIBRARY DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES ATTACHMENT E (3)