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ORDINANCE NO. "274
AN ORDINANCE CREATING TIM OFFICE
dTROT ZER OF THE CITY
OF THE C I TY CO., '
OF HUNTING TON BEACH AND PROVIDING
FOR TEE APPOINTI.+MNT AND COMPENSATION
TREREOF AND DEFINING THE POWERS AND
DUTIES OF SAID OFFICER.
- The- Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. The office of City Controller of the City
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of Huntington Beach is hereby created and established, said
officer shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of said City
and shall hold office during the pleasure of said Board He shall
receive such compensation for his services as the Board of
Trustees shall by resolution provide.
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Section 2. It shall be the duty of the City Controller:
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FIRST: To attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees
of said City:
`SECOND: To audit all accounts and books of account
of the City of Huntington Beach, and pupervise all accounting
of said City:
THIRD: To compile and deliver to each member of the
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Board of Trustees of said City; on or before the first Monday' in
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August of each year a budget of the estimated,-expenses and
requirements for the ensuing fiscal year, for said City showing
the several funds, departments and accounts into which the same ;
is divided or proportioned.
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FOURTH: To furnish to the Board of Trustees of said
City, on or before the first meeting night in each month a
complete financial statement showing the actual and estimated
conditions of all accounts of said City at the end of the pre-
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ceding month, together with estimated future expenditures and
revenue of said City.
FIFTH: To approve or reject any or all demands for
labor or services rendered and for material or supplies fur-
nished to said City.
Section 3. The City Controller shall have power,
FIRST: To require all purchases for or on behalf
of the City to be made upon requisitions signed by him.
SECOND:. To- require all labor for or on behalf of
the City to be employed only upon requisition signed by him*
THIRD: To require all appointive officers and de-
partment heads of said City to render to him on or before the
first day of July of each year an estimate of the revenue and
expense of such department or office for the ensuing fiscal
year showing the source of such estimated revenue , and the
purpose of the estimated expenditure.
FOURTH: To issue and promulgate rules and regulations
not inconsistent with this Ordinance covering the methods,
restrictions, rules and regulations governing the expenditure
of any and all municipal funds by appointive officers and de-
partments of said City.
FIFTH: He shall have the power and authority to
perform all such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance
or resolution of the Board of Trustees; provided, however, that
any and all acts of the said City Controller under this
Ordinance shall be subject to the final approval and control of
the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach and they
shall have full and complete power to correct, change or set
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aside any action taken by him under this Ordinance , whenever
they deem it proper to do so.
Section 4. The City Controller shall, before enter-
ing upon the discharge of his duties , execute a bond in favor
of the City of Huntington Beach with two or more good and
sufficient sureties or a surety company licensed to do business
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in said state , conditioned for the faithful performance
of all duties required by him by law in the penal sum of
five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
Section 5. The City Clerk of the City of
Huntington ,Beach shall certify to this passage of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in
the Huntington Beach News, a weekly newspaper printed, published
and circulated in said City of Huntington Beach.
This Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of
the public pease of the City of Huntington Beach for the reason
that there is now no method provided in the administration of
the City of Huntington Beach for the controlling of expenditures
by officers of the City of Huntington Beach under one office
and there is danger of moneys being spent over and above the
allowance provided for the various purposes which said expen-
ditures may deplete the funds of the City and thus endanger I�
the public safety. 4
THEREFORE, this Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City. of Huntington Beach,
California
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ATTEST:
Ci y Clerk and. x-offic' o Clerk
of the Board of Trusts s of the
City of Huntington Beach, Calif.
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State of California )
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County of Orange, ) SS.
City of Huntington Beach )
I vv0/ Cit Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk
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of the Board of Trustee of the City of Huntington Beach,
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California, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced and read. at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees
of said City on the day ofi ; fr- 19 and that
said ordinance was read and adopted at a regular meeting of said
Board on the 1�3 day of 19 Y , by the
following stated vote:
Ayes: Trustees • (N
Noes: Trustees:
Absent: Trustees:
;SEAL City Clerk and Ex-O.ificio Clerk of
the Board of Trust--es of the City
of Huntington Beach, California.