HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 881-00 09-26-2000 • ORDINANCE NO. 881-00
AN ORDINANCE SUSPENDING THE OPERATION OF
RICHLAND HILLS ORDINANCE NO. 663, ADOPTED ON
APRIL 28,1992, AND SUSPENDING THE OBLIGATION FOR
ANNUAL PAYMENTS CONTAINED THEREIN; PROVIDING
A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, previously authorized
withdrawal of $650,000.00 from the City's reserve funds for construction of a new Police Station
and jail facility within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council which authorized such withdrawal also mandated that said
$650,000.00 be repaid to the reserve fund, without interest, over atwenty-year period; and
WHEREAS, to memorialize this repayment arrangement, the Richland Hills City Council
passed on Apri128, 1992, Ordinance No. 663, requiring that the $650,000.00 taken from the City's
reserve funds be repaid in equal installments of $32,500.00 over atwenty-year period, beginning
October 1, 1992; and
• WHEREAS, the City of Richland Hills has recently been afflicted with severe reductions
in tax revenues -and particularly sales tax revenues -which could not have reasonably been
foreseen by the Richland Hills City Council at the time it passed Ordinance 663 in 1992; and
WHEREAS, in order to maintain the level of public services which the citizens of Richland
Hills expect and deserve, during this period of severe financial constraints, the City Council of the
City of Richland Hills now finds it necessary to suspend the annual repayment of $32,500.00 to the
reserve fund for calendar year 2000, and for future years until such obligation is reinstated by future
City Council action; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, further finds that the
health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of Richland Hills will be best served by suspension
of the repayment obligation described above, thus allowing continued delivery of necessary public
services to the citizens of Richland Hills.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
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That the repayment obligation contained in Ordinance No. 663, previously passed by the
Richland Hills City Council on Apri128, 1992, and specifically the obligation to make a payment
• of $32,500.00 on October 1, 2000 to the City's reserve fund, be and the same is hereby suspended
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• until further affirmative action is taken by the Richland Hills City Council to reinstate such
payments.
II.
That this suspension of repayment obligations under Ordinance No. 663 shall continue for
future yearly repayments coming due October 1 of each succeeding year, until such repayment
obligations are reinstated by future action of the Richland Hills City Council.
III.
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.
IV.
• Saving Clause. That Ordinance No.663 of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended,
shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as amended by this ordinance.
V.
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 26tlrlay of septeml~e~000, by a vote of 4 ayes, 0 nays,
and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
C. F. Kelley, Mayor
ATTEST:
• Terri Willis, City Secre ary
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• APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
James A. Cribbs, City Attorney
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