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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1961
Page
4
The Scottsdale charter establishes a council manager government with powers vested in an elected council. It outlines incorporation, boundaries, officer selection, term lengths, qualifications, and mayoral duties for the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, including future elections beginning 1962.
The document details mayoral duties and council authority including open meetings, salaries, vacancies, induction, and voting procedures. It sets qualifications for the City Manager, residency requirement, and the separation of administrative duties from council deliberations under the city charter.
The charter outlines the City Manager as chief executive responsible for enforcing ordinances, budgeting, reporting to the council, supervising purchases, and bonding. It provides for acting City Manager rules, removal procedures, and severance. It also establishes City Clerk Treasurer and City Attorney duties, with civil service board creation within one year.
The document outlines the formation of a civil service board with three electors serving six year terms and rules for vacancies. It details appointive boards, ex officio nonvoting mayor and city manager membership, and budgeting procedures including annual estimates, tentative budgets, public hearings, and the right to exceed adopted budgets for emergencies.
The excerpt outlines sections on city taxation to fund the annual budget including general and special taxes, a transaction privilege tax cap of 1 percent pending voter approval, exemptions, and transfers between funds. It also details transfer rules, annual audits by certified public accountants, and article provisions on ordinances and resolutions including enacting style, voting records, and reading requirements.
The text outlines council procedures for readings final passage emergency measures and signatures. It covers publication requirements for ordinances resolutions and code adoption by reference with three copies filed, plus contract rules for city improvements over 2500 dollars awarded to the lowest bidder after public notice.
City rules outline bidding for contracts between $500 and $2,500 with at least three bidders and lowest bid wins. Notices must run in the official newspaper five days before bid opening. council may reject all bids. Sections cover transfers, fraud, leases, sale of city property, and election types and voter qualifications.
The document details sections on primary and general elections including majority rules, nomination for general elections, time of holding elections, ties by lot, special elections, and recall. It also covers initiative referendum recall, establishment of The City Court of Scottsdale, and procedures for franchise grants to operate public utilities with publication requirements and voter approval.
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