HomeMy WebLinkAbout009 - 08/12/1938 - CREATING A DEPARTMENT OF UTILITIES AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION THEREOF (EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 9 1938,
BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CRFATIW A DEPARTMENT OF UTILITIES
AND PROVIDING FOR THE AEUINISTRATION THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Council is of the opinion that
it would be to the best interests of the City that all
utilities owned and operated by the City be under one
management and under Ordinance No. 9, 1935 there is created
a Light and Power Department with the office of manager
thereof, and in the opinion of the City Council said
manager should also be the manager of and responsible for
the operation of all other utilities owned and operated by
the City.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1. That there is hereby created a
Department of Utilities of the City of Fort Collins,
designated as the Utility Department of the City and said
Department shall include in its administration all property
rights and obligations of the City that are employed in or
related to the utilities owned and operated by the City,
and shall as far as practicable be administered as an
entity, except that at all times separate and complete
accounting systems for each utility shall be maintained.
Section 2 The Manager of the Light and Power
Department as provided by Ordinance No. 9 , 1935, shall be
the Manager of the Utility Department, he shall be responsible
for the administration of said Department and shall have the
right and duty of hiring and discharging all assistants and
other employees of said Department and of purchasing supplies
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and equipment for the same , subject to the necessary
supervision of the Commissioner of Works and City Council
as provided in the charter of the City of Fort Collins, he
shall have the right and duty of using employees and equipment
of one utility on the cork of another utility and of assigning
employees to part time duty in two or more utilities Nhen in
his judgment the same shall be desirable , provided, however,
that proper allocation of necessary costs shall be charged
against the utility receiving the service The salary of the
Manager of Utilities shall be such amount as shall be fixed by
the City Council and payable out of the funds of the several
utilities owned by the City
Section 3 This ordinance shall not in any
respect alter, change or repeal any part of Ordinance No 9,
1935, or Ordinance No 15, 1936
Section 4 In the opinion of the City Council
an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health,
peace and safety, and this Ordinance shall take effect upon
its passage, under and by virtue of the authority contained
in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter
Introduced, read at length and adopted by the
unanimous vote of all members of the City Council , et a regular
meeting held this 12th day of August, A D 1938
Commis i er ety and Ex- ficio
Mayor
Attest
City Clerk
STATE OF COLORADO, )
ss
County of Larimer )
I, MILES F HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort
Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing
Ordinance, consisting of four (4) sections, was duly pro-
posed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City
Council, held on the 12th day of August, A D 1938, and
was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins
Express-Courier, a daily newspaper and an official newspaper
of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all
members of the City Council as an emergency ordinance, in accord-
ance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV
of the City Charter, and thereafter and on to-wit the 16th
day of August, A D 1938, said Ordinance No 9 was duly
published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily news-
paper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said City, this 16th day of August,
A D 1938
City Clerk