HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 794-96 05-14-1996
• ORDINANCE NO. 794-96
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS
ORDINANCE N0.759-95, AND THE FISCAL YEAR 1995-1996
BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS,
ADOPTED THEREBY; AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 775-
95; INCREASING CERTAIN FUND APPROPRIATIONS;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, adopted Ordinance No.
759-95 on September 12, 1995, approving and adopting a municipal budget for the City of Richland
Hills, Texas, for fiscal year 1995-1996; and
WHEREAS, changed conditions resulted in the adoption of Ordinance No. 775-95 on
December 12, 1995, amending the budget adopted by Ordinance 759-95; and
WHEREAS, changed conditions and circumstances, which could have not been foreseen
through the use of reasonably diligent thought and attention, have necessitated certain amendments
• to Ordinance No. 759-95 and the budget adopted thereby as amended; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing on the following amendments to the fiscal year 1995-1996
budget contemplated hereby has been held as required by law.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That Section II of said Ordinance No. 759-95, as amended, be amended to decrease the
general fund appropriation from $3,180,721 to $3,098,721 with such decrease allocated and
appropriated as follows:
$82,000 reduction of General Fund Street Department Street Reconstruction line item.
II.
• That Section II of said Ordinance 759-95, as amended, be amended to decrease the general
fund revenues from $3,095,344 to $3,013,344 with such decrease as follows:
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• $82,000 decrease in revenue for transfer to the Road and Street Improvement Fund for future
capital improvements in accord with prior Ordinance No. 779-95 adopted January 9, 1996.
III.
That Ordinance 759-95, as amended, be amended to add a new section XII-I, appropriating
$63,000 out of the Road and Street Improvement fund for the payment ofright-of--way acquisition
and engineering fees.
IV.
That Ordinance 759-95, as amended, be amended to add a new section XII-2, appropriating
$235,507 from the General Fund non-department account and effecting an equity transfer of the
$235,507 to the Road and Street Improvement Fund.
V.
That Ordinance 759-95, as amended, be amended to increase the enterprise fund
appropriation from $2,190,871 to $2,225,871 for the following public purpose:
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1) $35,000 to repair the Trinity Well as part of the water distribution system.
VI.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that
the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase,
clause, sentence, pazagraph or section.
VII.
Saving Clause. That Ordinance No. 759-95, as amended by Ordinance 775-95, of the City
of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as
amended by this ordinance.
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• VIII.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and
publication as provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the laws of the State of Texas.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of the
Richland Hills City Council on the 14th day of May 1996, by a vote of 5 ayes, 0 ,nays, and
0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
C.F. Kelley, Mayor
ATTEST:
ern Willis, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM
James Cribbs, City Attorney
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