The Fire Chief’s administrative duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief to preside over all meetings of the Department, to call special meetings, to preserve order, to decide all points of order that may arise, and to enforce a rigid observance of this chapter and the Department’s by-laws;
(B) Prepare, maintain, review and revise Fire Department by-laws and present for approval by the City Council;
(C) Attends all meetings of the City Council and Public Health and Safety Committee. Assists the Mayor in the preparation of the Council agenda regarding Fire Department issues by furnishing pertinent documents, reports and briefings as needed;
(D) Reports regularly to the Mayor and the City Council concerning the status of all assignments, duties, projects and functions of the Fire Department;
(E) Reports regularly to the City Council Public Health and Safety Committee regarding Fire Department issues by furnishing pertinent documents, reports and briefings as needed;
(F) Assists the City Council Public Health and Safety Committee in determining, establishing or revising city ordinances pertaining to the Fire Department;
(G) Prepares the annual budget proposal for the Fire Department and administers it after adoption by the City Council;
(H) Supervises all expenditures by the Fire Department for the purpose of keeping the budget within the limitations of the budget approved by the City Council;
(I) Facilitates, in cooperation with the Mayor, the city’s intergovernmental relations with federal, state, county and regional agencies regarding Fire Department issues; and
(J) Performs such other and further administrative duties as the City Council or the Mayor may prescribe.
(Prior Code, § 2.20.030) (Ord. 1, passed 1-17-1980; Ord. 2019-6, passed 8-19-2019)