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ORDINANCE NO . / ~ ,, ~ '_
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2,"ADMINISTRATION", OF THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986) BY ADDING SECTION
2-11, "INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFER OF FUNDS FOR CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS"; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS
CUMULATIVE OF ALL ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR 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 (1986), as amended, is hereby further amended by adding
a new section 2-11, "Intradepartmental Transfer of Funds for
Capital Improvement Projects", which shall be and read as follows:
"Sec. 2-ll. Intradepartmental Transfer of Funds for Capital
Improvement Projects."
The following levels of management approval are required for
the intradepartmental transfer of funds that have been
previously appropriated by the City Council for capital
improvement projects:
a. Fund transfers for preliminary and miscellaneous
expenditures related to capital projects (subject
to City and State regulations governing
expenditures and purchases):
d $15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than $15,000 City Manager
b.
c.
Fund transfers for award of construction contracts:
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than $15,000 City Manager
Fund transfers for change orders to construction
contracts:
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than $15,000 City Manager
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d. Fund transfers for projects constructed by City
forces:
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than $15,000 City Manager
e. Fund transfers for changes to projects constructed
by City forces, if change increases total project
cost to the following amounts:
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than $15,000 City Manager
f . Fund transfers from one unspecified center to
another within a subfund for accounting and
tracking purposes:
No dollar limit Department Director
g. Fund transfers to move surplus funds from a
completed project to an undesignated account:
No dollar limit Department Director"
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 this ordinance are in
direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such
Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and
such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and 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
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any or 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.
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Date:
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City of Fort Worth, Texas
Mayor and Councill C'c-snmunication
NAME
11 /09/93 G10416 12FUNDS 1 of 2
SIIBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE RELATED TO THE INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFER OF
FUNDS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
RECOMMENDATION.
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance authorizing the
intradepartmental transfer of funds for capital improvement projects
DISCUSSION
At the City Council workshop of November 2, 1993,`there were presented the following
Administrative Regulations
C-5., Administrative Approval of Change Orders
C-6, Final Payments on Construction Contracts
C-7, Capital Improvement Program Management and Accounting
The proposed ordinance will permit the implementation of these Adminstrative Regulation by
allowing the City Manager and Department Heads to transfer funds within a department which
have previously been appropriated by the City Council as follows
a Funds transfers for preliminary and miscellaneous expenditures related to capital projects
(subject to City and State regulations governing expenditures and purchases)
S 15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than S 15,000 City Manager
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Funds transfers for award of construction contracts
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than S 15,000 City Manager
Fund transfers for change orders to construction contracts
$15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than. S 15,000 City Manager
Fund transfers for projects constructed by City forces
S 15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than S 15,000 City Manager
Fund transfers,for change to projects constructed by City forces, if change increases total
project cost to the following amounts
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City of Fort Worth, Texas
Mayor and Council Carnmunication
DATL REFERENC}3 NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE
11 !09/93 G10416 12FUNDS 2 of 2
SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE RELATED TO THE INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFER OF
FUNDS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
S 15,000 or less Department Director
Greater than S 15,000 City Manager
f Fund. transfers from one unspecified center to another within a subfund for accounting and
tracking purposes
No dollar limit Department Director
g Fund transfers to move surplus funds from a completed project to an undesignated
account
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No dollar limit Department Director
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Submitted for City Manager's FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY
Office by: ~ (t~) APPROVED
Charles R. Boswell gsoo CRTY COUNCPL
Originating Department Head:
NOV 9 1993
Wade Adkins 7623 (from)
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