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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 805-96 11-12-1996 • ORDINANCE NO. 805-96 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS ORDINANCE NO. 800-96 AND THE FISCAL YEAR 1996-97 BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, ADOPTED THEREBY; 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. 800-96 on September 24, 1996, approving and adopting a municipal budget for the City of Richland Hills, Texas, for fiscal year 1996-97; and WHEREAS, changed conditions and circumstances, which could not have been foreseen through the use of reasonably diligent thought and attention, have necessitated a certain amendment to Ordinance No. 800-96 and the budget adopted thereby; and • WHEREAS, a public hearing on the following amendment to the fiscal year 1996-97 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: 1. That Section XII of said Ordinance No. 800-96 be amended to increase the drainage utility fund appropriation from $40,163 to $162,163 with such increase allocated and appropriated as follows: $110,000 for the engineering and construction of concrete flumes for' the Big Fossil Floodway to meet United States Army Corps of Engineers maintenance requirements. $12,000 for the acquisition of a 15 foot mower to properly mow and maintain the Big Fossil Floodway to meet United States Army Corps of Engineers maintenance requirements. • • II. 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, paragraph or section. III. Saving Clause. That Ordinance No. 800-96 of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as amended by this ordinance. • IV. 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 12th day of November, 1996, by a vote of 5 ayes, o nays, and o abstentions. APPROVED: C. F. Kelley, Mayor • ORDINANCE NO. 805-96 • ATTEST: Terri illis, ity Secretary APPROVED AS TO FORM: ` P ul . W eneskie, City Attorney ORDINANCE NO. 805-96 • •