Ordinance No. 12,223ORDINANCE NO. 12,223
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, PRESCRIBING THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS IN EACH
CLASSIFICATION IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
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WHEREAS, previously, the Chief of the City of Baytown Fire Department has
recommended to the City Council that certain positions in the Fire Department be reclassified
and renamed; and
WHEREAS, the last such recommendation was approved by the City Council on the 19`h
day of November, 2012, via Ordinance No. 12,1 15 wherein the number of persons in each
classification of the Fire Department was established as follows:
FireChief .......................................................... ......................... . . .... 1
Assistant Fire Chief-------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----3
(Subject to provisions enacted by Ordinance No. 8355)
Fire Battalion Chief .......................................... ............................... 5
Lieutenant....................................................... ............................... 24
Fire Equipment Operator ................................ ............................... 18
FireFighter ................................................ ............................63; and
WHEREAS, on January 13, 2013, the emergency medical services operations and
personnel were transferred into the Fire Department via Ordinance No. 12,130, which provided
for the classification of the EMS employees in the Fire Department and the number of current
employees in each such new classification; and
WHEREAS, the City Council now desires to update the number of positions in each
classification and to include the classifications created in the Third Amendment to the Collective
Bargaining Agreement with the International Association of Firefighters Local 1173 via
Ordinance No. 12,130 and to prescribe the number of positions in each classification; NOW
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That the number of positions in each classification in the Fire Department
shall be as follows:
FireChief .......................................................... ............................... 1
Assistant Fire Chief .......................................... ............................... 3
(Subject to provisions enacted by Ordinance No. 8355)
EMSCoordinator----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -- I
FireBattalion Chief-------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - --5
Non-Dire P.1rMICdiC SL,IPCI-ViSOr ............... ............ ...................... ... 4
2 4
Fire Equipment Operator--- .... 18
F'irc ........ ........... ... 67
Non -["`ire Paramedic— .... ... --- ....... ---- ... .... ....... ---- 17
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms ()f' this
ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however., that such repeal shall be only to tile CNtClIt Of'
such inconsistency and in all Mier respects this Ordimance shall be cumulative of other
ordinances regulating and governing the stibject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: If z.my provision, section, exception, subsection, paragrzaph, sentence,
clause or phrase cat' this ordiviance or the application of same to any person or the set (:)I'
CifCLFlIIStalICCS, shall for anv reason be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall
not aff-ect i4c validity of' IL remaining prc visions of this ordimance or their application to other
persons or sets oTch-cuinslariccs and to this end all provisions of` this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
Section 4: This ordinance Shall take elTect immedia(cly from and after its passage by
the City Council of'the City of'Maytown,
IN]" "l,(. RFAD and PASS 'D by the affirmativ
City of' 13,,iytown this the 28"' day of'March, 2013.
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APPROVED AS TO FORNII:
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DONCARLOS, Ma�,or