[Adopted 2-19-1960 by Ord. No. 1252 (Ch. 49, Art. VI, of the 1979 Code)]
There is hereby created and established the office of City Engineer, who shall be appointed by the City Manager for the term as prescribed by law.
The City Engineer shall, in addition to such duties as are otherwise provided by law, perform the following specific duties:
A. 
The City Engineer, for the salary provided for in the Salary Ordinance,[1] shall furnish to the City his services as they may be required in the advising, consulting, designing, prosecution and execution of such engineering service as the necessities of the City shall require and as directed by the Mayor or City Council. These services shall include his engineering service and secretarial-stenographic service and shall include his personal transportation in the carrying out of the duties as hereinabove set forth.
[Amended 5-20-1980 by Ord. No. 1723]
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Editor's Note: The current Salary Ordinance is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
B. 
The City Engineer, for the aforementioned salary, shall personally attend all regular, adjourned, special and committee-of-the-whole meetings of the City Council and shall report at such meetings any defects, want of repairs and conditions existing which are under his supervision. He shall make appropriate recommendations to the City Council for the purpose of safeguarding and protecting the interest of the City and shall, while attending any such meetings, act in an advisory and consulting engineering capacity on problems affecting the City and incidental to the office of the City Engineer. He shall also attend department, division and board meetings upon specific requests so to do by the Mayor or City Council.
C. 
The City Engineer, for the aforementioned salary, as part of his regular duties and personal services, shall supervise the maintenance and the upkeep of the card index system for properties in the office of the Board of Assessors. He shall check all real estate transfers involving apportionment or subdivision of lands; he shall assign new lot numbers, and he shall further compute areas required by the Board of Assessors for the assessing of said lands, and he shall further, before the end of each current tax year, correct the tax assessment maps of the City to keep the same correct and up-to-date.
D. 
The City Engineer, for the aforementioned salary, shall supervise and provide the engineering calculations required for the investigation and preparation and making of all surveys of the City, highways and lands, preparation of all plans, cross sections, profiles and specifications in connection with grading, curbing, guttering and paving of all streets and sidewalks, the extension and laying of new water mains and all additions to the water supply plant and water supply system, the construction and extension of all storm and sanitary sewers, and the preparation of all other engineering data or documents where professional services are required, including consultations, appearances and representations on behalf of the City of Garfield in court or before quasi-judicial boards, agencies or other municipal, county or state bodies. In the event that any of the services mentioned in this Subsection D shall be in connection with any capital improvement program for which bonds or other indentures are issued or a capital improvement ordinance is duly adopted, then and in that event the City Engineer, upon a resolution of the City Council being duly adopted, shall be paid a percentage fee determined by the City Council of the total cost of said capital improvement, which capital improvement is financed and authorized by ordinance duly adopted by the City Council.
E. 
The City Engineer, for the aforementioned salary, shall consult and advise the chief executive officers of the Department of Public Works on any matters affecting the repair and maintenance of public roads, sewers and highways.
F. 
The City Engineer, for the aforementioned salary, shall fix and ascertain the cost of local improvements for abutting property owners, which cost shall be used as a basis for local improvement assessments.
In addition to the aforesaid salary, the City Engineer shall be allowed for engineering services rendered by him, upon resolution of the City Council being duly adopted, a percentage fee determined by the City Council of the total cost of any capital improvement undertaken by the City which is financed by the issuance of bonds or authorized by ordinance duly adopted by the City Council, or any capital improvement programs financed from funds received from the State Highway Department.
The City Engineer shall, at the direction of the Mayor or City Council, deliver to the City Clerk the original tracings of any assessment maps, sewer maps, water maps, general improvement maps or any other documents or records pertaining to the office of the City Engineer.
The City Engineer shall, on or before January 15 of each year, or at such other time as he may be requested so to do by the City Council, make a report to said City Council of all matters or business in which the City has been interested, begun, pending or determined during the 12 months next preceding the time of making such report, and which matters or business were delegated to the City Engineer for attention and disposition.