The city, containing more than six hundred inhabitants and containing one or more manufacturing establishments, adopts and accepts the provisions of title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, relating to towns and cities, as provided in article 961 of said Revised Civil Statutes, the same to be effective from and after the due publication hereof.
(Ordinance 28 adopted 6/3/68)
(a) 
The fiscal accounting year for the city will be changed from May 1 through April 30 to October 1 through September 30 to conform to the federal, state, and county government year ends.
(b) 
The fiscal year ending April 30, 1997, will be extended to September 30, 1997, and will have 17 accounting months. The auditor will be instructed to do one 17-month period audit after September 30, 1997.
(Ordinance 04-14-97-10 adopted 4/14/97)
The city agrees to implement the following specific affirmative action steps directed at increasing the utilization of business concerns located within the Section 3 covered area or owned by Section 3 area residents:
(1) 
To identify eligible business concerns for TCDP assisted contracts through the Chamber of Commerce, the Urban League, local advertising including public signage, project area committees, citizen advisory boards, lists available through the local HUD program official, regional planning agencies, and all other appropriate referral sources;
(2) 
To maintain a list of eligible business concerns for utilization in TCDP funded procurements, to ensure that all appropriate project area business concerns are notified of pending contractual opportunities, and to make available this list for general city procurement needs;
(3) 
To require all bidders on contracts to submit a written Section 3 plan including utilization goals and the specific steps planned to accomplish these goals;
(4) 
To ensure that contracts which are typically let on a negotiated rather than a bid basis in areas other than Section 3 covered project areas are also let on a negotiated basis, where feasible, when let in a Section 3 covered project area;
(5) 
To maintain records, including copies of correspondence, memoranda, etc., which document that all of the above affirmative action steps have been taken; and
(6) 
To appoint or recruit an executive official of the city as equal opportunity officer to coordinate the implementation of this Section 3 plan.
(Ordinance 000313-14, art. 1, adopted 3/13/00)