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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 690-1943 - Creating A Department Of Municipal Government - 03/11/1943No. 690 O'a-II -\..94-3 03:-25-'.94-3 AN ORDINANCE CREATING AND ESTABLISHING A DEPART- MENT OF MUNICIPAL .GOVERNMENT TO THE CITY OF LUBBOCK TO BE KNOWN AS THE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION; CREATING A RECREATION COUNCIL AND PRESCRIBING ITS DUTIES AND PROVIDING FOR FINANCING THE DEPARTMENT. WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock, Texas, is a Home Rule City, operating under the Home Rule Charter voted by the citizens of Lubbock, vesting it with full power and authority of self government. The City ~f Lubbock has a population of approximately 40,000 inhabitants and owns and maintains many city , parka and play grounds in its corporate limits and maintains and operates MacKenzie State Park under an agreement with the State of Texas. Said parks and play grounds owned and/or con- trolled and operated by the City consist of several hundred acres of land. And, WHEREAS, thousands of children and adults patronize said parks and play grounds annually seeking recreation and re- laxation and, whereas, the City of Lubbock has no Department of Recreation to conduct, supervise and carry on a much needed public recreational program. And, WHEREAS, the City Commission finds that it will be to the be'st interest of the general public for the City Commission to create, establish and maintain a Department of Recreation to promote, carry on and supervise a public recreation program, and that a public recreation program should be maintained and operated by the City of Lubbock in connection with ita parks, play grounds and at such public places in the corporate limits to the City of Lubbock as the interest of the public may re- quire. THEREFURE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITYCOMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: I $ ·sECTION 1: There is hereby created a Depart- ) ~ ment of the municipal ·government of the City of Lubbock a Department of Recre~ion; said Department shall be operated and administered by the City. of Lubbock, as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2: Fbr the purpose of operating and administering the Department of Recreation there is hereby created a Council to be composed of 7 members who shall .serve without pay, and all of whom shall be resident,-tax paying citizens of the City of Lubbock. Said council shall be officially designated as the Recreation Council. The members of the Recreation Council shall be appointed by the City Commission and hold office at the will and pleasure of the said City Commission. The City Commission shall appoint 3 of the members of the first Recreation Council to serve for a perio~ of 2 years, and 4 members to serve for a period of 4 years and thereafter all members appointed shall serve for a period of 4 years except appointments made to fill unexpried terms. SECTION 3: The Recreation Council is hereby vested with full power and authority to set up and operate a public recreation program in the City of Lubbock, to promote and supervise indoor as well as outdoor recreation, to supervise and operate all soft ball diamonds, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, croquet courts, basket ball courts and any and all other ·sports and games played on the public play grounds and parks belonging to the City of Lubbock; to supervise, direct and stage theatric and dramatic ~lays and with the ~ight to promote any and all kinds of clean, wholesome entertainment for the promotion of good morals, good health and good citizenship. SECTION 4: The Recreation Council is hereby vested with power and au thority to appoint a Superintendent of the Recreation Department who shall hold his office at the Will 2 ~ and pleasure of the Recreation Council. The Superintendent of the Department of Recreation shall with the advise and consent of a majority of the members of the Recreation Council, employ and discharge all paid personnel! of said Department and shall be responsible to the Recreation Council for the faithful and efficient operation of said Department. The salary of the Superintendent of Recreation and all paid employees of said Department shall before they become effective, be approved by the Recreation Council and such salaries shall be set forth in the budget of the Department of Recreation as approved by the City Commission. SECTION 5: The Recreation Council shall within ten days after its members are appointed, meet and organize. At its first meeting it shall elect one of its members as Chairman and one as Vice-Chairman and one as Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Chairman to preside at all meetings and in the absence of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman shall preside. A majority of the members of the Recreation ·council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction o~ business. The Recreation Council shall hold regular meetings once each month in the corporate limits ~n the City of Lubbock, at such time and place as the Chairman may designate. The Chairman shall call special meetings of the Recreation Council when necessary. The Recreation Council shall keep accurate and complete minutes and records of all its meetings, a copy of said minutes and records to be filed with the City ·secretary in the City Hall. It Bhall be the duty of the Recreation Council to see that said minutes and records are kept by the Secretary and that a copy of said minutes and records are filed with the City Secretary. 3 '• SECTION 6: It shall be the privi.lege of the City l\llanager to meet with the Recreation Council as often as his duties will permit and to counsel and advise With said Council and to keep the City Commission fully advised and informed as to the activities of the Recreation Council. SECTION 7: The Recreation Council shall before March the first of each year, prepare and submit to the City ' Commission an itemized budget of the Department of Recreation, showing the funds needed to operate and maintain the Department of Recreation for the next ensuing fiscal year. Said budget as approved by the City Commission shall be incorporated in the general budget of the City of Lubbock and upon the approval of the gene~al budget of the City of Lubbock the fUnds as approved for operation and maintenance of the Department of Recreation shall be appropriated from the general fund as needed. The funds appropriated for the Department of Recreation shall be expended under the direction of the Recreation Council and shall be handled through the accounting department of the City of Lubbock, in the same manner as funds appropriated for other departments of the City. SECTION 8: The Recreation Council may when it deems it proper and necessary, make recommendations to the City Commission for the purchase and/or renting of suitable buildings and grounds to be used in the operation of the Department of Recreation, but the City Commission reserves to itself the right to make all contracts for the purchase and rental of buildings and real estate. SECTION 9: All requests for the purchase of equipment and supplies shall be made on a signed purchase re- quisition. Said requisition to be signed by the Superintendent 4 .. . .. of the Department of Recreation and a member of the Recreation Council who has been authorized by the Council to sign such requisition and any requisition not so signed shall not be honored by the City purchasing agent. SECTION 10: Since the responsibility for the construction, maintenance and upkeep of the City Parks and Public Play Grounds is under the supervision and direction of the Park Commission of the City of Lubbock, it shall be necessary for the Recreation Council before instituting any recreational program ·or installing any recreation facilities on the City Parks or Play Grounds to submit to and have the approval of the Park Commission on such plana· for recreational programs and the location and installation for recreation facilities so that the use of the parks and public play grounds by the Department of Recreation shall not interfere with the development, maintenance and upkeep of the City parka and play grounds by the Park Commission. SECTION 11: The Recreation Council is hereby vested with power and authority to adopt by-laws, rules and regulations governing the operation and supervision of a public Recreation program in the City of Lubbock, provided said by-laws, rules and regulations are not in conflict with the City Charter, the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. PASSEB and approved this first reading the 11th March day of ________ A. D. 1943. PASSED and approved this second reading the 25th day of ___ M_a._r_o_h ____ A. D. 1943 . Mayor 5 ..