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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 11444~'- •s f 1 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 ~~ °~ 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 -2- ~~ ~ i t. P ~ :~~' t ~ e 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: `G~7 ~~ ity Att ey Date: ADOPTED • ~ ~ " ~ " L~ EFFECTIVE: ~ 1 _ ~ ~ I -3- 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 b c d e 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 ~. -~~ Printed on recycled paper 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 0 No dollar limit Department Director CB I 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) ~~~~ f C~tJ • For Additional Information atetat of the 5 Cit t C t y e y on ac : City of Fort Worth, Ye Wade Adkins 7623 ed. rdjnance N _ ~+ t~= Printed rrn recycled paper