HomeMy WebLinkAbout1966-855 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE relating to City administration; providing for the
• appointment of, and specifying the duties of, an Assist-
ant City Manager, and enacting Section 1.18.015 as a
new section to the City of Yakima Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section I. Section 1.18.015 is hereby enacted as a new section
of the City of Yak ima Municipal Code, - to follow existing Section
1.08.010, which new section shall be entitled, and which shall read,
as follows:
"1.18.015 ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER - POWERS AND DUTIES.
The City Manager may, within the limits of the annual budget
adopted by the City Council, appoint an Assistant City Manager,
or designate an employee of the City as such officer, who
shall assist the City Manager in such manner as he may
designate, and perform such other duties, for the benefit
of the City, as the City Manager may direct.
• Whenever the City Manager is unable to personally per-
form the duties of his office due to disability or absence
from the City, the Assistant City Manager, at no increase
in salary, shal I serve as acting City Manager, and shall
supervise and be responsible for the effective management
and administration of City affairs and shal I be otherwise
empowered with all the powers of the City Manager, except
the power to appoint and remove heads of City departments
and divisions, provided, however, that whenever the City
Manager's absence or d i s a b i l i t y appears to the City Council
to be of continuing duration, the City Council may, in its
discretion, appoint some other City official or City employee
to perform the duties of City Manager."
Section 2. This Ordinance shal I be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by
law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this day of
November, 1966.
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ATTEST: / _dami4
Mayor
C1TY CLERK