Arizona republican., 1914-05-18
ORDINANCE NO. i

lining and Prescribing the Duties of and Fixing the Compensation and Bonds for, all the Officers of the City and Providing that the Office of the City Assessor and the Office of the City Collector, as Well as Other Offices Created by This Ordinance, May be Filled by One and the Same Person.
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COM MISSION OF THE CITY OF PHOE- NIX as follows:
 Section l. In addition to the of fices of City Manager, City Auditor City Clerk, City Assessor, City Trea- surer, City Collector, City Attorney City Engineer, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, Superintendent of Streets and City Magistrate, provided for in the city charter adopted on the 11th day of October 1913. there are hereby further established and created the offices of City Health Officer, City Sealer of Weights and Measures, City Inspector of Buildings and Superin- tendent of Water Works.
 Section 2. (A) The City Manager shall have the general supervision and direction of the administrative operation of the city government. He shall supervise and direct the off cial conduct of all appointive officers, except the CitysAuditor and the City Magistrate. He shall supervise the performance of all contracts made by any person for work done for the city and in that behalf represent the city, except as it may be otherwise provided in the city charter. He shall make all purchases of materials or supplies for the city, and shall see that the same are received as con- tracted for. He shall employ and discharge from time to time, as oc- casion requires, all employees of the city. He shall appoint all officers of the city, the appointment or election of whom are not otherwise provided for in the charter, and may remove them when the interests of the city require.
 He shall make written report to the Commission at it's first meeting in each month of the state and condition of the business and affairs of the city; and he shall, whenever required by the Commission, make a written or verbal report as may be indicated by the Commission, in detail, of any particular matter relating to the af- fairs of the city within his super vision.
 He shall require monthly reports, and may require them oftener, from each of the officers of the city ap- pointed by him, of the business and condition of such office, and shall submit the same to the Commission upon it's request therefor. All reports required by the charter or by ordi- nance shall be in writing, except that the Commission. in the case of re- ports other than the said monthly reports, may direct them to be yer bal; and the manager may direct reports other than such monthly re- ports to be made verbally.
 It shall be his duty to see that al the ordinances of the city are en- forced He shall, on or before the firs1 Monday in May in each year, or such date in each year as shall be other wise fixed by the Commission, pre- pare a careful estimate in writing ol the amounts in money, specifing il detail the purposes thereof, required for the business and conduct of the affairs of the city during the nex ensuing fiscal year; and shall, on ol before the first Monday in June o1 each year. or on such date in eacf year as shall be fixed by the Com mission. submit to the Commission the estimates of each department ane his own personal report and recon mendation and estimate as to tn' probable expenditures of the city 1o the next ensuing fiscal year, statlns the amounts in detail required to mee all expenditures necessary for GIL. purposes, including a city sinkln' fund for outstanding indebtedness, any. therein; also an estimate or LII amount of income expected from al sources in each department, ana LII probable amount required to De fais cd bv taxation to cover such expen ditures. interest and sinking Iuno.
 The City Manager must not hea or consider any claim in favor or any one against the city unless an ac count properly made out, giving al the items claimed, duly verified to it's correctness and that the amour claimed is justly due, is presented U him within six (6) months aIter UT last item of the account accrued, eA cent claims of officers of the GIL for their salaries; and if he snail Iii that any claim presented IS not pay able by the city or is not piope charge. he shall reject the same; II Il finds if to be a proper charge, but TOT greater amount than is due, ne may al low the claim in part and oroer pai the portion allowed upon the clalmah filing his receipt in full of his accoun' He shall not allow any demand upo the city in favor of any person any manner indebted to the GU without first deducting such indeot edness. or in favor of any of1ice whose accounts shall not have pee rendered and approved or who sha have neglected or refused to mak his official returns or reports l writing. as required by the provi sions of the charter or any ordinanc of the Commission, or in favor C any officer who shall wilfully neg lect or refuse to perform any of tn duties of his office.
 He shall have power to examine
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