Ord 53-2012 9/18/2012ORDINANCE NO. 53 -2012
Ordinance Adopting The Annual Budget For The Fiscal Year
Beginning October 1, 2012 And Ending September 30, 2013,
Approving Revisions To The FY 2011 -12 Budget, and Declaring An
Emergency
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS,
TEXAS, THAT:
1. The budget estimate of the revenues and expenses for conducting the affairs
of the City of Wichita Falls for the ensuing year, beginning October 1, 2012 and ending
September 30, 2013, as submitted to the City Council by the City Manager, is hereby
adopted and approved as the budget estimate of all revenues, expenses as well as the
fixed charges against said City for the fiscal year beginning the 1st day of October,
2012, and ending the 30th day of September, 2013.
2. Appropriations are hereby made for such revenues, expenses and charges for
the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2012 and ending September 30, 2013, and such
appropriations are to be set up in accounts as submitted to the City Council.
Operational control of the budget shall be exercised at the class total level within each
Fund, Department, and Budget Unit.
3. The City Manager is authorized to make transfers between items appropriated
to the same office, department or division, where not in contravention of the
Constitution and laws of this State or of the City Charter.
4. The projects, programs and benefits, which are included in this budget and for
which appropriations are herein made, are hereby approved.
5. The budget estimate of the revenues and expenses for conducting the affairs
of the City of Wichita Falls for the remainder of the fiscal year beginning October 1,
2011, and ending September 30, 2012, as submitted to the City Council by the City
Manager, is hereby adopted and approved as the revised budget estimate of all current
revenues and expenses as well as fixed charges against said City, and appropriations
are hereby made for such revenues, expenses and charges in accounts as submitted to
the City Council.
6. The salaries for City Council appointed positions are hereby approved as
follows: City Manager - $181,156.55, City Attorney - $147,747.60, Municipal Court
Judge - $94,626.19 and City Clerk- $68,197.88. The Mayor is hereby authorized to
execute amended employment agreements with the City Manager and City Attorney for
the approved salary amounts and existing benefits, with further authorization to transfer
benefit amounts between categories in said contracts in a manner negotiated thereby.
To the extent governmental immunity may limit judicial enforcement of said
agreements, immunity is waived.
7. The immediate need to continue the normal operation of the business of the
City creates an emergency, and in order to protect the public health, welfare and to
preserve the peace, this ordinance shall take effect immediately, and it is so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 18th day of September, 2012.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
City Clerk