HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 4806ORDINANCE NO. 4806
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2.18.012 AND
2.18.050 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL FOR
WATER BOARD.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2.18.012 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
2.18.012 Policy and purpose.
A. The city has acquired significant water rights and lands and facilities
associated with those water rights for the purpose of assuring the inhabitants of
the city as it now exists or as it may be constituted in the future with an
adequate municipal water supply. The city also operates and administers the
Kern River Levee District. It is the policy of the city that the administration of the
city's lands, facilities and rights associated with water be carried out to preserve
and conserve such rights and facilities for such future use by the city.
B. The purpose of the water board shall be to make recommendations
to city council regarding the regulation, control, management, renewal, repair,
replacement, and preservation of the water rights, and water associated with
those rights, and the water facilities and related lands of the city consistent with
this policy. In administering and implementing this policy, it shall make every
effort to conserve water for the benefit of the present and future inhabitants,
including the protection, preservation and augmentation of the underground
water supply. All such decisions shall be accomplished by a majority of the
water board, comprised of officers of the city as an honest exercise of
reasonable discretion.
SECTION 2.
Section 2.18.050 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
2.18.050 Manager of the water resources department.
The manager of the water resources department, appointed by the city
manager, who shall be an officer of the city, shall be responsible for the day -to-
day supervision and direction of the operations of the city water resources
department, and shall be authorized to execute contracts on behalf of the city,
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subject to board direction and approval in accordance with standard city
contract procedure as defined in Bakersfield Municipal Code section 3.20.105.
SECTION 3.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and
after the date of its passage.
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HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted,
by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on
JUN 2 4 2015 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBER: RIVVERA, M WELL, WEIR, SMIT , SUL,LIVAN, PARLIER
COUNCILMEMBER: _ -J
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER:
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APPROVED: JUN 2 4 2015
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ROBERTA GAFFORD, CM
CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Jerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
By:
RICHARD IGER
Associate City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
ROBERTA GAFFORD, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield;
and that on the 26th day of June , 2015 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall, a
full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4806, passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 24th day of June, 2015 and entitled:
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2.18.012 AND 2.18.050 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION
AND PERSONNEL FOR WATER BOARD.
ROBERTA GAFFORD
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
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