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All contracts, agreements, or other obligations entered into, and all ordinances passed and resolutions and orders adopted, that are contrary to the preceding sections of this chapter shall be void, and no person shall have any claim or demand against the city thereunder, nor shall the council or any officer of the city waive or qualify the limits fixed by any ordinance, resolution, or order, or fasten upon the city any liability in excess of such limits, or relieve any party from an exact compliance with a contract under such ordinance, resolution, or order; provided, that this section shall not apply in case of public disaster calling for extraordinary emergency expenditure or to the exceptions contained in Section 12 of this chapter. (Amend. of 11-8-05, Prop. No. 13; Amend. of 11-4-14, Prop. No. 9)
The limitations and restrictions contained in Sections 10 and 11 above shall not be applicable to the park board where an advantageous opportunity is presented to said board to purchase an additional park for any year upon a cash payment out of the appropriation set apart to the park department for that year and the contract or agreement to pay the balance of the purchase price for the said park is not to exceed 10 annual installments; provided that such contemplated purchase of park property shall first be reported to the city council and approved by the council. When so approved the said purchase may be consummated and thereafter provision shall be made in the annual budget for the payment of the annual installment with interest thereon, to be charged against the annual appropriation for such department.
(a) All receipts and revenues from the water utilities department constitute a separate and sacred fund, which may never be diverted or drawn upon for any purposes other than those set forth in this section. The city council may appropriate or pledge all receipts and revenues from the water utilities department:
(1) for acquiring, constructing, repairing, extending, improving, operating, maintaining, and bettering the city’s combined water and wastewater utility systems and related plants, properties, mains, facilities, and water supplies;
(2) for paying, discharging, or retiring the indebtedness and obligations of the city that have been or may be incurred for Dallas water utilities department purposes;
(3) for payment for services rendered to the department by other city departments; and
(4) for payment of an amount equal to ad valorem taxes and other charges that would be due the city if the water utilities department were not a city-owned public utility.
(b) All water service or municipal and industrial waste water collection and treatment service rendered by the water utilities department must be paid for by rate schedules as approved by the city council and such state authority as may be required. (Renumbered by Amend. of 6-12-73, Prop. No. 43; Amend. of 5-1-93, Prop. No. 7)
(a) If at any time the total actual, accruing or estimated annual revenue of the city exceeds the total actual annual revenue of the prior fiscal year, city council shall appropriate no less than 50 percent of such excess amount, in compliance with Section 1 of Chapter XI of the Charter, to fund the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System - Combined Plan, in the amount directed by the State Pension Review Board and/or city council, whichever is higher. Any monies remaining shall be appropriated to the public safety objectives described below in Subsection (b).
(b) Public safety objectives.
(1) The starting combined salary and non-pension benefits, excluding sign-on bonuses, of the police officers of the Dallas Police Department are within the top five of all city police departments (as compared to the starting combined salary and non-pension benefits) in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, Denton, and Rockwall Counties with a population over 50,000, on a per officer basis; and
(2) The total number of full- time sworn police officers of the police department of the City of Dallas is increased to at least 4,000 and the ratio established of 4,000 officers to Dallas city residents as of the date of the passage of this charter amendment is maintained or increased going forward.
(A) Any monies appropriated to this public safety objective but not spent within the fiscal year shall be transferred to a sinking fund to fund this Public Safety Objective in the subsequent fiscal year.
(c) Any monies remaining after all public safety objectives defined in this section have been met may be reappropriated by city council.
(d) The city, on an annual basis, shall hire a third-party firm to conduct a survey to calculate the starting combined salary and non- pension benefits, excluding sign-on bonuses, of the full-time police officers of all cities in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, Denton, and Rockwall Counties with a population over 50,000, on a per officer basis, and report the findings to city council. The third-party firm will be required to certify in writing to the city that it used its best efforts to include responses from each city in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, Denton, and Rockwall Counties in the annual survey, and the failure or unwillingness of any city to participate in the survey shall have no impact on either:
(1) the city’s and the third-party firm’s obligations to complete and deliver the survey required by this Section on an annual basis; or
(2) the city’s obligations under this chapter.
(e) As used in this section, “revenue” shall mean all revenue collected by the city that’s use is not restricted to a limited purpose under state or federal law, including, but not limited to ad valorem property tax, sales tax, beverage taxes, asset forfeiture funds, bingo fees, cemetery taxes, impact fees, interlocal agreements, internet payment and access fees, investments, court fees, open records fees, municipal development corporation sales taxes, municipal development district taxes, pro rata fees, public improvement district assessments, right-of- way fees, special improvement district fund taxes, street assessments, time warrants, user fees, venue taxes, donations, coin-operated machine taxes, drainage fees, hotel taxes, parking fees, franchise fees, enterprise funds, charges for services, admission fees, fines and forfeitures, operating transfers from municipally controlled entities, municipal enterprises, municipally owned utilities, municipally controlled districts, licenses and permits, and interest, but shall not include any debt proceeds taken on by the city, or any grants, appropriations or other revenue received from other governmental or non-profit entities (that weren’t directly or indirectly initially provided to such other governmental or non-profit entities by the city).
(f) If any section, paragraph, clause, or provision of this section is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of that section, paragraph, clause, or provision shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of this section, and to this end, the provisions of this section are declared to be severable. This section shall supersede the Dallas City Code to the extent there are any conflicts. (Amend. of 11-5-24)