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HomeMy WebLinkAbout009 - 04/23/1954 - PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO A CHARTER CONVENTION OF THE CITY AND MAKING AN APPR ORDINANCE NO 9 , 1954 BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE PROVIDR A SPECIAL ELECTION � ��„ ING FO X OF DELEGATES TO A CHARTER CONVENTION FOR THE CITY OF FORT ✓�) COLLINS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR WHEREAS, at the regular municipal election held in and for the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, on the 6th day of ,'April 1954, there was submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of the City of Fort Collins the question of calling a charter convention for the City of Fort Collins and a majority of those voting thereon carried the question and voted in favor of hold_ng such charter convention NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 That a special election of the qualified electors of the City of Fort Collins be and the same is hereby called to be conducted as provided for by law for the purpose of electing twenty-one taxpaying electors who shall have been qualified electors within the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, for at least five years prior to the time fixed herein for said election to constitute such charter convention Said twenty-one members and delegates shall be elected at large Section 2 That said special election of members and delegates of the charter convention shall be held on Tuesday, the 22hd day of June, A D 1954 Section 3 That the said charter convention shall be convened and held at the Library room in the Lincoln Junior High School Building in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, at 10 otclock A M on the first Tuesday after the issuance of certificates of election of the members by the City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, and the members shall at once there organize and proceed as such charter convention with all diligence to frame a new r Charter for the City of Fort Collins, and the members of said convention shall complete their deliberations within 60 days after their election Section 4 That the time when the vote shall be taken on the proposed new Charter for the approval or rejection thereof by the qualified electors of the City of Fort Collins is hereby fixed as the Tuesday next following the 30th days after its delivery to the City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado Section 5 Nominations for members of the charter convention shall be made substantially as provided for nomination of officers as provided for in Article XIV of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins, provided however, that the petition for the nomination of such members may contain one or more nominees not exceeding the number of twenty-one individuals, and no elector shall join in petitions for the nomination of more than twenty-one qualified electors as members of said charter convention, and the elections herein provided for shall be governed as other municipal elections are governed by the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, except as otherwise provided by the constitution of the State of Colorado or by this ordinance Section 6 There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, the sum of $1,000 00 into a special fund to be known as Charter Convention Fund to pay the expenses of the charter convention to be paid out on the order of the President and Secretary of said convention as is provided by Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, such expenses to include all clerical help, personnel, supplies, printing and all other expenses usually attendant holding of such convention Section 7 The City Clerk and other officials and officers of the City of Fort Collins are hereby authorized and directed to make such book and other record entries and to do such other things as may be necessary to effectuate the above mentioned appropriation -2- Section 8 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 and publication 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 at a regular meeting held this 23rd day of April, A D 1954 Commis x_o er of bafety a -Q ficio ayor ATTEST City Clerk -3- 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 eight sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council, held on the 23rd day of April, A D 1954, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council as an emergency ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, and thereafter and on, to-wit the 27th day of April , A D 1954, said Ordinance No 9 was duly published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this City, this 2 th day of April , A D 1954 City Clerk -4-