HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-06-12 Ordinance 4906ORDINANCE NO. 4906
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING SECTION 2. 08 .200 OF CHAPTER 2. 08 OF
TITLE 2 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE TO EFFECT
CHANGES TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF UTILITIES
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 2.08.200 of Chapter 2.08 of Title 2 of
the Palo Alto Municipal Code is hereby amended to read, as follows:
2.08.200 Department of Utilities
(a) The department of utilities shall be organized and
administered under the direction of a director of utilities who
shall be accountable to the city manager. The duties of the
director of utilities shall be as follows:
(1) To plan, direct and coordinate the operations of the
city's utilities department;
(2) To coordinate the forecasting of the city's long-
range utility needs and develop financial plans to ensure that the
city's utilities rate, reserve and revenue levels will be able to
meet customer service, operating and financial requirements;
(3) To provide administrative support to the utilities
advisory commission on matters relating to the department;
(4) To generate appropriate reports as may be required
by county, state and federal agencies or by law;
(5) To operate a responsive customer service center, to
manage customer service utilities billing, inquiries and complaints
and to provide a fast and courteous response to each customer's
request for utility service;
(6) To establish rates to offset operating costs of all
city utility operations designated as utilities enterprise funds
and to provide a fair and reasonable rate of return on the city's
capital improvement investment in those utilities designated as
utilities enterprise funds;
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(7) To maintain a profitable market share in a
competitive energy market environment by retaining existing water,
electric and gas utilities customers and seeking new and efficient
uses for gas, water, electricity and dark fiber;
(8) To provide technical or other efficiency services to
enable residential, commercial and industrial utilities customers
to reduce their operating costs, improve the quality of the
environment and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction;
(9) To forecast and plan the acquisition and disposition
of sufficient least-cost resource supplies to meet existing and
future supply requirements in an environmentally acceptable manner:
(10) To negotiate for the purchase and sale of water, gas
and electricity and contract with water, gas and electric power
producers, suppliers and marketers for resource supply at the best
available price or cost;
(11) To recommend capital construction and improvements
of all utility systems, and to administer such programs when
approved;
(12) To inspect all construction work done by or for the
utilities and require compliance with all contracts made in
connection therewith;
(13) To prepare or cause to be prepared all utility maps
of the utilities, and to keep and to maintain such records as are
necessary for the fulfillment of this function:
(14) To provide operations, maintenance, and construction
necessary to ensure the safe, efficient and reliable delivery of
electric, water I gas and wastewater collection services to all
customers;
(15) To provide operations, maintenance, and construction
necessary to ensure the proper operation of the city's traffic
signal, street lighting and communication systems;
(16) To perform or cause to be performed all duties
required by this code or other law of the director of utilities and
the department of utilities; and
(17) To perform such other duties as may be required.
(b) For organizational purposes, the department of
utilities shall consist of the following divisions: administration;
customer support services: resource management: engineering: and
operations.
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SECTION 2. The City Council finds that the adoption of this
ordinance does not constitute a project under the California
Environmental Quality Act, California Public Resources Code section
21080, subdivision (b) (8).
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective upon the
commencement of the thirty-first day after the date of its
adoption.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: June 12, 2006
AYES: BARTON, BEECHAM, CORDELL, DREKMEIER, KISHIMOTO,
KLEIN, KLEINBERG, MORTON
NOES:
ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT: MOSSAR
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Senior Asst. City Attorney
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