HomeMy WebLinkAbout179 - 01/06/2015 - AMENDING SECTION 2-581 OF CITY CODE AND SETTING THE COMPENSATION OF THE INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY ORDINANCE NO. 179, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING SECTION 2-581 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AND SETTING ]'HE COMPENSATION OF THE INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY
.WHEREAS, pursuant to Article VI, Section I of the City Charter, the City Council is
responsible for fixing the compensation of the City Attorney; and
WHEREAS, the City is committed to compensating its employees in a manner that is
fair, competitive and understandable; and
WHEREAS, City Attorney, Stephen J. Roy passed away suddenly on July 3, 2014; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, through adoption of Resolution 2014-057, appointed .
Carrie Daggett as the interim City Attorney; and
WHEREAS, this interim appointment will continue in effect until such time as the City
Council officially appoints a city attorney or such earlier time as the Council may determine to
be in the best interest of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council agrees that at such time as the interim City Attorney is
relieved of her duties as interim City Attorney, she will be returned to the position of deputy city
attorney unless the City Council appoints her as the new city attorney; and
WHEREAS, the City Council met with the interim City Attorney to conduct a review and
establish goals for her performance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes, based upon the added responsibilities placed on
the interim City Attorney, that the base salary of the interim City Attorney for 2015 should be
established at the amount of$151,909, per annum.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That Section 2-581 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2-581. Salary of the Interim City Attorney.
The base salary to be paid the interim City Attorney shall be one hundred fifty-
one thousand nine hundred nine dollars ($151,909.) per annum, payable in biweekly
installments. Sixty (60) percent of such sum shall be charged to general government
expense, twenty (20) percent to the City water utility and twenty (20) percent to the City
electric utility.
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Section 2. That the effective date of the salary adjustment referred to in Section 1
above shall be January 5, 2015, to be paid retroactively within a reasonable period of time after
this Ordinance becomes final.
Introduced; considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of
December, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 6th day of January, A.D.
2015.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 6th day of.lanuary, A.D. 2015.
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