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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 3106 ORDINANCE NO. a'/o AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THAT NOTICE BE GIVEN TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WILL, AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWENTY (20) DAYS FROM THE FIRST DATE THAT THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED IN SOME NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN SAID CITY, ADOPT AN ORDINANCE, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRO- VISIONS OF ARTICLES 1166, 1170 AND 1171 OF THE REVISED CIVIL STATUTES OF THE STATE AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, ORDERING A SPECIAL HOME-RULE ELECTION IN SAID CITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUB- MITTING CERTAIN PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF SAID CITY, AMONG THEM BEING AMENDMENTS TO CHANGE THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING FOR A BOARD TO ADMINISTER THE AFFAIRS OF THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM; PROVIDING A TAX FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SAID MUSEUM; PROVIDING FOR A BOARD TO ADMINISTER THE AFFAIRS OF THE ART MUSEUM; PROVIDING A TAX FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SAID MUSEUM; PROVIDING FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF SOME CF THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR A CHANGE OF SECTION 23, CHAPTER XXVIII OF THE CHARTER, WHICH SECTION ESTABLISHES A TAX LIMIT; AND PROVIDING FOR SUCH OTHER PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE AND NECESSARY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION I. That in accordance with the provisions of Articles 1166, 1170 and 1171 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas and other applicable laws, the following notice be given to the qualified voters of the City of Fort Worth, Texas: TO THE LEGALLY QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, AND TO ALL OTHER PERSONS WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that after the expiration of twenty (20) days from the first date that this notice is published in some newspaper of said City, it is the inten- tion of the City Council to pass an ordinance containing certain proposed amendments to the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, which amendments are to be submitted at a special home-rule election in accordance with the provisions of Articles 1166, 1170 and 1171 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas and other applicable laws. SECTION II. That at such special home-rule election there shall be submitted the said proposed amendments to be contained in the ordinance for adoption or rejection by the qualified voters in said City. SECTION III. That some of the proposed amendments which will be considered by the said City Council to be incorporated in said ordinance submitting the same are described as follows: 1. All members of the Fort Worth Fire Department engaged in Fire Fighting or in the suppression of Fire shall not be re- quired to work more than sixty (60) hours in any one creek or more than one hundred and twenty (120) hours in any two week period. This shall include all apprentice Firemen, Firemen 1st Class, Drivers, Lieutenants, Captains, District Chiefs, and Senior District Chiefs, or any member of the Department who shall ever work in any of these capacities. The members of the Fire Department in these ranks or positions shall con- tinue to work in shifts or tours of duty in the same manner as at present, which shall be 24 hours on duty and 24 hours off duty. Shifts shall be changed at 12 o'clock noon of each day, with the members of these respective divisions of the Fire Department divided into two (2) equal shifts, except that there shall be designated by the Chief of the Fire Depart- ment or any Fire Department Officer whom the Chief might desig- nate one (1) twenty-four (24) hour tour of duty in each week, which would ordinarily be a regular or normal tour of duty, at which time each such Fireman shall not be required to work, thereby amounting to a maximum of sixty (60) hours in any one week or one hundred and twenty (120) hours in any two week period. All other members of'the Fire Department shall not be re- quired to work more than forty (40) hours in any one week or more than eighty (80) hours in any two week period. This shall include all Assistant Chiefs, Fire Marshals, Assistant Fire Marshals, Chief Drill Instructors, Assistant Drill Instructors, Fire Inspectors, Executive Officers, Chief Fire Alarm Operators, Fire Alarm Operators, Custodians of Mechanical Equipment, Me- chanics, Secretaries to the Chief, Fire Prevention Secretaries, and Secretaries to the Assistant Chief, or any member of the Fire Department who shall ever work in any of these or other administrative capacities. The provisions of this amendment shall not prevent the Chief of the Fire Department or any Officer of the Fire Depart- ment whom the Chief might designate from requiring any member of the Fire Department to work hours in excess of the maximum hours prescribed by the provisions of this amendment or to be present at meetings called by the Chief of the Fire Department or any Fire Department Officer whom the Chief might designate; however, any such Fireman required to work extra hours or at- tend meetings on his off duty time shall be compensated, in addition to his regular salary, an` amount of money at the rate of one and one-half (1J) his regular rate of pay. The provisions of this charter amendment shall not be con- strued to be violated when members of the Fire Department ex- change time with each other or hire a substitute to work in his place, with the consent of the Fire Chief or any Fire Department Officer whom the Chief might designate. If the provisions of this charter amendment are adopted by a majority of the qualified voters voting in this election, the base salaries in effect on October 1, 1951, for each classi- fication in the Fire Department shall be established as a mini- mum base salary for members of the Fire Department in each classi- fication. If any part or parts of this charter amendment shall be held unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of this charter amendment. If any section of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth is in conflict with this charter amendment as it pertains to wages and hours of work of the Fire Department, such section is hereby repealed. 2. The Children's Museum of the City of Fort Worth shall be administered by a board consisting of five (5) members, to be }mown as the Children's Museum Board. The members of the Children's Museum Board shall be appointed by the City Council. No person shall be eligible to appointment who is not a citi- zen of the United States and a resident of the City of Fort Worth. At least two (2) of the members of said Board shall be Women. The members of the Children's Museum Board shall serve without compensation. They shall be subject to removal from office by the City Council for any cause deemed by the Council sufficient for their removal in the interest of the public service, but only after a public hearing before the City Council upon charges publicly made, if demanded by such member Within ten (10) days. Any vacancy in the membership of said Board shall be filled by the City Council for the un- expired term of the member whose place has become vacant, either by removal or otherwise. The said Board shall have power and authority to equip, operate, supervise and maintain the Children's Museum. The said Board shall have power to appoint and employ all necessary officers and eaployees and prescribe and fix their duties, authority, compensation and qualifications as to residence or otherwise. They shall have the management and disposal of all funds legally apportioned or received from any source for the support of the Children's Museum. All supplies exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50.00) in cost shall be purchased for this department by the Purchasing De- partment of the City of Fort Worth under rules and regulations prescribed by the City Council of the City of Fort Worth. No expenditure shall be made or liability incurred by the Children's Museum Board exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) in amount without first being authorized and approved by the City Council. This provision shall not apply to employees that the said Board may deem necessary to employ for the operation of said depart- ment for the current year where the salary of such employee does not exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) per annum, but all salaries of that amount or larger amount shall be first sub- mitted to the City Council and approved by it before such appoint- ment shall become effective. The annual budget of the Children's Museum Board shall be submitted to the City Council the same as all other departments of the City, in accordance With the pro- visions of Chapter % of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth. 3. The City Council of the City of Fort Worth, when levying the taxes for each fiscal year, shall levy an annual ad valorem tax of not less than two cents (2}) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assessed value of all real and personal property in the City of Fort Worth not exempt from taxation by the Con- stitution and laws of the State for the use and benefit of the Children's Museum. The said tax, when collected, shall be de- posited with the City Treasurer to the credit of the Children's Museum, and said sums, together with all sums appropriated by the City Council in the annual budget for the Children's Museum or received from other sources, shall be deposited and held by the City Treasurer in a separate account to the credit of the Chil- dren's Museum, subject to the order and disbursement of the Chil- dren's Museum Board, for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, and the same shall be paid out upon warrants issued by the Children's Museum Board, signed by the President or Vice-President of said Board and countersigned by the Commissioner of Accounts of the City of Fort Worth and the Secretary of the Children's Museum Board. The repeal of Section 23, Chapter XXVIII of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, reading: "In the event that the Public Schools of this City should be removed from the control of the City of Fort Worth, so that the City should not be re- quired to provide for the support and maintenance thereof, then the limit of taxation for all other municipal purposes from and after said date shall not exceed Onop and Ninety/one-hundredths ($1.90) Dollars per.annum on each One Hundred ($100:00) Dol- lars valuation of all taxable property situated with- in the limits of the City, -- such rate to be fixed and determined by the Council annually when passing the appropriation ordinance. "The said rate of taxation may be annually in- creased, from time to time, by the Council until the constitutional limit of Two and fifty/one-hundredths ($2.50) Dollars on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property shall have been reached; provided, that any increase of the annual rate of taxation be- yond the $1.90 limit here established shall never be valid unless first authorized by a majority vote of the qualified tax paying voters participating in an election lawfully held for that purpose. No more than one election in any one year shall ever be held for such purpose." 5. An amendment creating a board for the administration of the Art Museum. 6. An amendment providing a tax for the maintenance of the Art Museum. 7. An amendment providing for.the consolidation of two or more departments of the City of Fort Worth. SECTION IV. That such other and additional proposed amendments wall-.be considered and submitted as to the City Council may be deemed appropriate. SECTION V. That the City Secretary is directed to publish this notice for ten (10) days in a newspaper published in the City of Fort Worth, in accordance with the provisions of Article 1171 of the Revised Civil Statutes' of Texas, the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, and all other applicable laws. APPROVED CAS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: City Attorney