HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 06/07/2005 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 071, 2005, AMENDING ITEM NUMBER: 18
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: June 7, 2005
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Darin Atteberry
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 071, 2005, Amending Chapter 2, Article 5 of the City Code
Pertaining to Administrative Organization.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This ordinance makes the necessary Code amendments involving the restructuring of Administrative
Services and Communication and Technology Services. These changes are recommended to ensure
a more consistent approach towards improving accountability and increasing efficiencies in the
services these two areas support.
BACKGROUND
Over the last six months, the City Manager has worked with Council and staff to frame the big-
picture outcomes and goals for the City. Council and staff are engaged in a new approach
(Budgeting for Outcomes) to more effectively define our key services and align our resources to
achieve the results that are most important to our citizens.
In a complementary and parallel strategy,the City Manager has identified some key organizational
changesto:
• Improve our business and service practices
• Be more responsive and accountable to our customers
• Solve problems and deliver services more efficiently
• Be more accountable
• Partner, collaborate and use resources more effectively
A major consolidation is already underway. Code Enforcement and the Neighborhood Resources
services are consolidating efforts under a new office entitled Neighborhood Services that will be
housed in Community Planning and Environmental Services. The goal is to strengthen customer
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advocacy and case management and provide a more consistent approach to problem solving and
enforcement. The "merger" is scheduled for completion in July.
Another major change involves restructuring of Administrative Services and Communication and
Technology Services. The services provided in these two areas support all of the City's direct
services to citizens. The issues that surface and are addressed by work in these areas consistently
involve the City Manager's office. Again, to ensure a more consistent approach, improve
accountability and increase efficiencies, the following organizational changes are recommended:
1. Finance and Budget will be integrated under the Deputy City Manager
2. Operation Services(Fleet and Facility Management)will be relocated under
the Utilities General Manager.
3. Human Resources will be integrated with Legislative Services
Communication and Public Involvement Services under an Assistant City
Manager (formerly the Assistant City Manager / Administrative Services
Director)
4. Information Technology, Geographic Information Systems, and the JD
Edwards Financial System will be integrated under another Assistant City
Manager (formerly the Assistant City Manager/Communications and
Technology Director).
5. The Economic Advisor will remain in the City Manger's Office under the
direction of the City Manager.
The proposed ordinance would revise the administrative structure shown in the Code to reflect these
changes.
Working as an effective team, the City Manager, Deputy City Manager, and two Assistant City
Managers are committed to improve the services that support the Council's policy work as well as
the foundation systems for our organization.
ORDINANCE NO. 071, 2005
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 5 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS PERTAINING TO ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
WHEREAS,the City Charter provides that the administrative branch of the City government
is to be composed of such offices, service areas and agencies as are established by the City Council
by ordinance upon report and recommendation of the City Manager; and
WHEREAS, the administrative organization of the City appears in Section 2, Article 5 of
the City Code; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended certain changes to such administrative
structure, and the Council concurs with the recommendations of the City Manager.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Sections 2-500 and 2-501 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins are hereby repealed
in their entirety,with Sections 2-502 through 2-506 to be renumbered as Sections 2-500 through 2-
504.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 7th day of
June, A.D. 2005, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2005.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 5th day of July, A.D. 2005.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk