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At the end of each year all unexpended balances of appropriations shall revert to the respective funds from which the same were appropriated, and shall then be subject to future appropriation; but appropriations may be made in furtherance of improvements or other objects or work of the City which will not be completed within the current year.
Moneys appropriated as hereinabove provided shall not be used for other purposes than those designated in the appropriation ordinance without authority granted in a duly enacted ordinance so providing. The Mayor and the Director of Finance shall supervise all departmental expenditures within the appropriations.
(Amended by electors 11-3-92)
Any accruing revenue of the City, not appropriated as hereinbefore provided, and any balance at any time remaining after the purposes of the appropriation shall have been satisfied or abandoned, may from time to time be appropriated by the Council to such uses as will not conflict with any uses for which specifically such revenues accrued.
The Council may at any time transfer money appropriated for the use of one department, division, or purpose, to any other department, division, or purpose; but no such transfer shall be made of revenue or earnings of any non-tax-supported public utility to any other purpose.
The Council shall provide for the care, supervision, control and improvement of public highways, bridges, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, aqueducts and viaducts within the City, and shall cause them to be kept open, in repair and free from nuisance, and it may order any street, alley, or public highway to be opened, straightened, altered, diverted, narrowed, widened or vacated.
In vacating any street or part thereof, or in changing the name of any street, the Council may include in one ordinance the change of name or the vacation or narrowing of more than one street, avenue or alley; but before vacating any street or partthereof or narrowing any street, the Council shall first pass a resolution declaring its intention so to do. The Mayor, regardless of his or her approval of said resolution, shall cause notice of such resolution to be served, in the manner that service of summons is required to be made in civil actions, upon all persons whose property abuts upon the portion of the street affected by the proposed vacation or narrowing, and by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City as to all persons who cannot be personally served. Said notice shall state the time and place at which objections to such change can be heard before the Board of Revision of Assessments. Upon the report by the Board of Revision of Assessments approving the proposed vacation or narrowing, the Council by ordinance may declare such vacation or narrowing which ordinance shall be subject to Sections 43A and 43B of this Charter. Such order of the Council vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has not been dedicated to public use by the proprietor, shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the Council; but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired thereby.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Council shall fix, by ordinance, the salary or compensation of all officers and employees of the City. The salary and compensation so fixed shall be uniform for like service in each grade of the service as the same shall be graded and classified by the Civil Service Commission, and all such salaries and rates of compensation shall be reported to the Civil Service Commission forthwith. The salary of any officer, employee or member of a board or commission shall not be diminished during the term for which he or she was elected or appointed, except in the case of demotion of an employee. Laborers shall be paid the highest reasonable wage paid at the time in the City for similar services. All fees pertaining to any office shall be paid into the City treasury.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
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