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 Denton
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER
 Article XII. PUBLIC UTILITIES

  § 12.08. Powers and duties of the public utilities board.

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  • (a)

    The board shall serve the department of utilities and city council as a consulting, and advisory board.

    (b)

    The annual budget for the department of utilities shall be prepared by the director and submitted to the board in the form required by the city manager. The board shall review the budget, make such changes therein as they deem appropriate, then return it to the director who shall deliver it to the city manager for incorporation without any changes, in the proposed general budget of the city and transmission to the council.

    (c)

    The public utilities board is hereby authorized to expend such funds for information and advertising as shall be budgeted for this purpose.

    (d)

    All actions recommending expansion of the system and the making of additions and betterments thereto or extensions thereof, the incurring of indebtedness, the issuance of bonds, and the fixing of rates and charges for utility services shall be submitted to the board for review and approval; provided, that in case of disapproval, the board shall within thirty (30) days communicate the reasons for its disapproval to the council, which shall have the power to overrule such disapproval, and, upon such overruling, the council or the appropriate department shall have power to proceed; and provided further that all rates and charges for utility services shall be reviewed by the board and revised or reenacted by the council at intervals not exceeding five (5) years and beginning with the year 1960.

    (e)

    The board shall submit annually to the planning and zoning commission (for incorporation in its report), prior to the beginning of the budget year, a list of recommended capital improvements, which in the opinion of the board ought to be constructed during the forthcoming five (5) year period. Such list shall be arranged in order of preference, with recommendations as to which projects should be constructed in which year.

    (f)

    It shall be the duty of the board to act in an advisory capacity to the council, with authority to hold public hearings and to study and recommend policies relating to the operation, promotion, enlargement, future planning and such other matters involving city-owned utilities as may be referred to it by the council. At intervals not exceeding ten (10) years the council shall at the expense of the utilities involved, cause a general management survey to be made of all utilities under the jurisdiction of the board by a competent management consulting or industrial engineering firm, the report and recommendations of which shall be made public; provided, that the first such survey shall be made within three (3) years of the effective date of this Charter.

(Ord. No. 2006-232, Amend. No. 21, 8-28-06, ratified 11-7-06)