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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2357ORDINANCE NO. 2357 NEW SERIES AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD ADDING CHAPTER 1.30 TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING THE BAKERSFIELD WATER BOARD, SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of as follows: SECTION 1. That Chapter 1.30 is added Code to read as follows: the City of Bakersfield to the Bakersfield Municipal Sections: 1.30.010 1.30.020 1.30.030 1.30.040 Chapter 1.30 CITY OF BAKERSFIELD WATER BOARD Board Membership Authorization and Powers of Water Board City Clerk--Ex Officio Secretary Annual Budget 1.30.010 Board Membership. There is hereby created a Board which shall be known as the City of Bakersfield Water Board. Members of the Water Board shall be comprised of the Water and City Growth Committee of the City Council, the City Manager, and City Attorney. One member shall be elected as chairman and one shall be elected as vice-chairman to serve in the absence of the chairman. The Water Board shall perform the duties and responsi- bilities prescribed herein. 1.30.020 Authorization and Powers of Water Board. The City of Bakersfield Water Board is authorized and empowered to: 1. Establish and collect all water rates, contract for sale or exchange of water, collect income from water-bearing lands and generally regulate, control, manage, renew, water system and related lands of the City, of the underground water supply. repair and preserve the including preservation 2. To make rules and regulations governing the conduct of said Board and setting the time and dates for meetings. 3. To employ such nonpermanent persons as the necessities of the water system may require. 4. The Board shall have power to control and order the expen- diture of money received from sale and use of water for the defray- ing of expenses or maintenance and repairs and operation of the water system, and for any expenses for additions to the same, provided that all such money shall be deposited in the treasury of the City to the credit of a fund to be known as the Water Fund, and shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys of the City, and shall only be drawn from said fund upon demands authenticated by the signature of the President and Secretary of the Board, or in the absence of the President, by the signature of two members and the Secretary of the Board. 1.30.030 City Clerk--Ex Officio Secretary. The City Clerk shall be Ex Officio Secretary of said Board, and shall keep a record of the thereof, and shall, whenever required, certify such pro- proceedings ceedings. 1.30.040 Annual Budget. The Board shall cause to be prepared annually a budget for the operation of the water system, which shall be subject to approval by the City Council. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective thirty days from and after the date of its passage. .......... o00 .......... I 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 the MOth day of June , 1977, by the following vote: CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk of the Council of the City of Bakersfield the City of Bakersfield 1977 APPROVED as to form: C%TY ATTORNEY o~,~zhe glny of Bakersfield AffraY! of ostmg ( rhman es STATE OF CALIFORNIA, t County of Kern ss. H. E. BERGEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and that or~ ...............................................~..u...q..e.......~...0.. .......................................................,19._.~.~. he posted on the Bulletin Board at the City Hail, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City at a meeting thereof duly held on ....................J....u...~.~..._~.~ ..............................................., 19._~..~..., which ordinance was numbered ......... ~.~P~ ................New Series, and entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD ADDING CHAPTER 1.30 TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING THE BAKERSFIELD WATER BOARD, SETTING FORTH THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD. City C~erk Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2~8~ .. day of Jur~ ................. , 19.~?..