PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE OF ADOPTION

ORDINANCE 11-02-20-B

Public Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Enterprise, Alabama, at the Organizational Session held on November 2, 2020, duly passed and adopted Ordinance 11-02-20-B.  The ordinance in its entirety is as set out below.

Beverly Sweeney

Interim City Clerk/Treasurer

November 11, 2020

ORDINANCE 11-02-20-B

AN ORDINANCE TO UPDATE CHECK WRITING POLICIES

AND PROCEDURES FOR THE CITY OF ENTERPRISE

WHEREAS:    Section 11-43-56, Code of Alabama, 1975, provides the Council shall have the management and control of the finances of the City; and

WHEREAS:    The Council desires to establish and provide the procedures for the payment of routine and recurring expenses of the City; and

WHEREAS:    Section 11-43-120, Code of Alabama, 1975, prescribes the procedures for the drawing of warrants and the payment of invoices from the Treasury of the City.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA, as follows:

SECTION I.    That the Interim City Clerk/Treasurer is authorized and empowered to draw warrants on the Treasury without the approval of the Mayor, provided the Mayor has written approval on the voucher for which the check is issued.  For this purpose, the approval of the itemized accounts payable register bearing the Mayor’s signature may be used for the approval of all vouchers itemized therein.  The Mayor Pro Tem shall be authorized under the provisions of 11-43-42, Code of Alabama, 1975, to exercise this responsibility in the absence of the Mayor.

SECTION II.   Warrants drawn for expenditures or payments under the authority previously approved by resolution or ordinance or investments authorized by state law may be drawn by the Interim City Clerk/Treasurer.  Other vouchers or requests for voucher checks shall be approved by the Mayor or the Mayor Pro Tem in the absence of the Mayor.

SECTION III.Warrants drawn on the Treasury shall bear two of the three following signatures, subject to the following restriction:  Where both of the proposed signatories will not be the Interim City Clerk/Treasurer, the two proposed signatories must obtain pre-approval in writing from the Interim City Clerk/Treasurer or the Mayor to sign. 

1. The signature of Beverly Sweeney, Interim City Clerk/Treasurer
2. The signature of Staci Hayes, Interim Director of Engineering
3. The signature of Lori Senn, Finance Director

The facsimile signatures of the above may be used so long as approval for the warrant is manually subscribed.  The City Council reserves the authority to change or modify this policy at their discretion.

SECTION IV.  Any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of conflict, hereby repealed.

ADOPTED AND APPROVED THIS 2^ND DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2020.

COUNCIL:

S/ Sonya W. Rich   

Council Member Sonya W. Rich

District #1

S/ Eugene Goolsby

Council Member Eugene Goolsby

District #2

S/ Greg Padgett 

Council Member Greg Padgett

District #3

S/ Scotty Johnson

Council Member Scotty Johnson

District #4

S/ Turner Townsend

Council Member Turner Townsend                               

District #5

ATTEST:

S/ Beverly Sweeney

Beverly Sweeney

Interim City Clerk/Treasurer

Transmitted to the Mayor this 3^rd day of November, 2020.

S/ Beverly Sweeney

Beverly Sweeney

Interim City Clerk/Treasurer

ACTION OF THE MAYOR:

Approved this 4^th day of November, 2020.

S/ William E. Cooper    

William E. Cooper

Mayor

ATTEST:

S/ Beverly Sweeney

Beverly Sweeney

Interim City Clerk/Treasurer

11/11/2020