Ord 36-2020 Additional Charter Amendment Mayor-Council Pay for November 2020 Election 6/16/2020Ordinance No. 36-2020
Ordinance approving the submission of an additional proposed City
Charter amendment to the voters during the general -special election
of November 3, 2020; further, setting forth the additional proposed
amendment and prescribing the form of the proposition
WHEREAS, on June 16, 2020, the City Council approved an ordinance calling for
a General -Special Municipal Election to be held on November 3, 2020, for the purposes
of electing a Mayor, Councilor District 3, Councilor District 4, and Councilor District 5;
further submitting certain proposed amendments to the City Charter to the voters during
said election; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to include an additional proposed amendment
to the City Charter to be submitted to the voters during said election; and,
WHEREAS, by this ordinance, the City Council also sets forth the proposed
additional Charter amendment, and prescribes the form of the proposition.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. There hereinafter -described proposed amendment to the City
Charter of the City of Wichita Falls shall be included among those previously approved
amendments to be submitted to the voters during the General -Special Municipal Election
to be held on November 3, 2020:
Measure No. 10. That Section 38 of the City Charter shall be amended so that
such section shall read as follows:
"Sec. 38. - Mayor and councilor salaries.
The city council may, by ordinance, provide for the compensation of its members
to be paid in equal monthly installments. The salary of the mayor shall in no event exceed
the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per month, and the salary of each council
member shall in no event exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00) per month.
The mayor or any council member absent from a regular or regularly called
meeting of the city council, except on account of his own illness, or illness in his immediate
family, or absence from the city where excused by the city council prior to such absence,
shall forfeit two percent (2%) of his entire annual compensation for each such absence."
SECTION 2. The proposed measure to amend the Charter of the City of Wichita
Falls as proposed in Section 1 of this ordinance shall be submitted to the qualified voters
at this general -special election on November 3, 2020, on the ballot and in the form of the
following proposition. The number of the proposition shall correspond to the number of
the measure, and the words "yes" and "no" shall be printed to the left of the proposition
on the ballot.
Proposition No. 10. Shall Section 38 of the City Charter be amended to provide
for a salary not to exceed $1,000 per month for the position of mayor, and not to exceed
$600 per month for each Council member?
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 16t" day of June, 2020.
ATTEST:
City Clerk