[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 10-1971. Amendments noted where applicable.]
CROSS-REFERENCES
Administrative organization: see § 2-301.2.
Appointment and removal of employees: see Optional Charter Law
§ 415(e) [53 P.S. § 41415(e)].
Assignment for administrative purposes: see § 2-301.3.
Compensation of directors: see Optional Charter Law § 607(c)
[53 P.S. § 41607(c)].
Department heads: see Optional Charter Law § 415(c)
[53 P.S. § 41415(c)].
Director as Acting Mayor: see Optional Charter Law § 414
(53 P.S. § 41414).
Duties of department: see Optional Charter Law § 416
(53 P.S. § 41416).
Duties of directors: see § 2-301.5.
Establishment, number and functions of departments: see Optional
Charter Law § 415(b) [53 P.S. § 41415(b)].
Investigation by Council: see Optional Charter Law § 409
(53 P.S. § 41409).
License and Tax Appeal Board: see Ch. 5-101.
Preparation of City budget: see Optional Charter Law §§ 416
and 417 (53 P.S. §§ 41416 and 41417).
Qualifications and duties of Business Administrator: see Optional
Charter Law § 416 (53 P.S. § 41416).
Reports submitted to Mayor: see Optional Charter Law § 412
(53 P.S. § 41412).
Rules and regulations: see Optional Charter Law § 610
(53 P.S. § 41610).
Violations in office: see Optional Charter Law § 601
et seq. (53 P.S. § 41601 et seq.).
The Department of Administration, under the Business Administrator,
shall perform the fiscal and administrative service functions for
the City and its departments, including the establishment of a uniform
accounting system for the City, and shall coordinate City departments,
boards, commissions, and other agencies to cause a concerted effort
of all of the City's activities with a view toward the conservation
of time and money and application of available resources to the needs
and conditions of the City.
A.
The City budget shall consist of the following:
[Ord. No. 9-1996]
B.
On or before April 1 of each year, the Bureau of Planning, after
consultation with the directors and heads of all City departments
and offices, shall submit a proposed five-year capital improvement
program to the City Planning Commission for its study and recommendations.
On or before June 1 of each year, after receipt of the report of the
Planning Commission, the Mayor shall submit the program to Council,
incorporating any of the recommendations of the Planning Commission
which the Mayor deems advisable. The program submitted may be modified
by the affirmative vote of five members of Council. Passage of the
five-year capital improvement program shall be subject to annual revision.
C.
Emergency Reserve Fund.
[Added 2-8-2005 by Ord. No. 47-2004]
(1)
There
is hereby created and established by the office of the City Treasurer
of the City of Harrisburg a cash account within the general fund which
shall be known as the "Emergency Reserve Fund," which account is established
to receive and pay out such funds as may be appropriated in the annual
budget for emergency or other urgent circumstances. The Emergency
Reserve Fund shall be a separate line item within the general fund.
The general fund section of the City's budget shall contain a
line item titled "Transfers to the Emergency Reserve Fund."
(2)
The
City Treasurer shall deposit such funds as may be received and appropriated,
being 0.5% of the total annual budgeted general fund revenues, including
all fees charged to the public by the various City departments, for
the City of Harrisburg, in the Emergency Reserve Fund on or before
the 30th day of June in each current budget year.[1]
(3)
Any
and all funds appropriated shall be placed in safekeeping by the office
of the City Treasurer, and allocation of such funds shall be made
by Council only through the regular annual budget allocation process,
including the year in which the funds are originally allocated.
A.
The Business Administrator shall supervise the preparation and administration
of each annual budget.
B.
Immediately after the budget has been enacted and after consultation
with the heads of the departments, the Business Administrator shall
establish quarterly or such other periodic allotments of appropriations
to each department as he or she may deem necessary.
(1)
At the beginning of each allotment period, the amount specified
shall become available to each department for obligation during that
period.
(2)
Such allotments for any department may be modified, upon request
of the head of the department, by the Business Administrator or by
direction of the Mayor.
(3)
The Business Administrator shall file with the Controller a
copy of each allotment and modification thereof.
(4)
An encumbrance system of accounts to control all expenditures
within the limits of budget appropriations and to control such allotments
shall be maintained by the City Controller.
(5)
If at any time during the budget year the Business Administrator
shall ascertain the probability of a cash deficit, he or she shall
reconsider the work programs and allotments of the several offices,
departments and agencies. Upon such reconsideration, and with the
approval of the Mayor, the Business Administrator shall revise the
allotments so as to forestall, so far as possible, the making of commitments
and expenditures in excess of the revenue to be realized during the
fiscal year.
[Ord. No. 46-1979; Ord. No. 28-1983; Ord. No. 28-1984; Ord. No. 29-1990; amended 12-30-2010 by Ord. No. 21-2010]
A.
Prior to the authorization of any individual budgetary transfer exceeding
$20,000 within the most restrictive category set forth in said budget
ordinance, or any budgetary transfer from or within any personnel
services allocation, the Business Administrator shall be required
to obtain the approval of City Council. The permitted transfer of
$20,000 is a cumulative maximum for the budget year in any category.
B.
No employee shall receive biweekly wage or salary payments that will
cause the established budgetary appropriation for the position from
which he or she is being paid to be exceeded at or before the end
of the budget year. No budgetary transfers shall be permitted into
or within any personnel services allocation to augment any individual
wage or salary allocation previously established by Council for any
position. Any changes to budgetary appropriations for wages and salaries
shall only occur with the prior approval of Council by ordinance or
resolution. It shall be an exception to this section that transfers
into or within personnel services allocations may be made without
Council approval in order to accommodate payments to employees as
required under applicable federal or state laws or in accordance with
established collective bargaining agreements.
C.
No money shall be loaned, removed or transferred from one City fund
account to another City fund account without prior approval of the
Council by ordinance or resolution; provided, however, that the City
Treasurer may continue to invest and reinvest the City's funds
in a fiscally sound manner by combining funds from the several accounts
of the City when deemed to be in the best interest of the City.
D.
The Business Administrator shall issue a report to the Mayor, City
Council, City Controller, and the City Treasurer no later than 45
days after June 30. Said report shall include actual receipts and
expenditures, including encumbrances, of the various budget funds
for the preceding six-month period ended June 30 as well as projections
to year end of all receipts and expenditures, including encumbrances.
[Ord. No. 1-1985]
A.
Contract administration for the City, heretofore vested in Council,
shall be vested in the Mayor and Department of Administration, to
be exercised in accordance with the procedures adopted by the Mayor.
The exception shall be the award of no-bid contracts for professional
services. Due to the sensitive and controversial nature of these contracts,
coordination with and approval by the City Council is required.
B.
The Business Administrator shall file or cause to be filed monthly
with the City Clerk a list by department of each duly executed purchase
order, identifying the vendor, the product or service purchased and
the amount of each purchase order.
[Ord. No. 31-1993]
[Ord. No. 31-1993]
A.
Prior to issuing any purchase order or causing any contract to be
executed, the Business Administrator shall cause the records of the
City to be reviewed to determine whether or not the individual or
entity to whom or to which the purchase order or contract is to be
issued, or the principals of any business in whose name the purchase
order is to be issued, owe delinquent taxes or municipal claims to
the City individually, jointly, or as the principal(s) of any entity.
As provided under General Municipal Law, 53 P.S. § 7231,
the municipal claims need not have been filed as liens in the office
of the Prothonotary of Dauphin County and shall include all penalties,
interest, and costs due on such delinquent taxes and municipal claims.
B.
Any person or principal of any company who is found to owe the City
delinquent taxes or municipal claims shall be deemed "nonresponsible,"
and no purchase order shall be issued in favor of such person or business
entity.
C.
If a purchase order is issued or contract executed notwithstanding
the requirements of this section, the appropriate officials of the
City are directed to set off the City's claim in the manner provided
for in Article IV of Chapter 25 of the General Municipal Law, 53 P.S.
§§ 7231 to 7235, as amended.
[Ord. No. 47-1983; amended 4-27-2016 by Ord. No. 5-2016]
A.
Personnel administration. Personnel administration for the City,
heretofore vested in Council, shall be vested in the Mayor and Department
of Administration, to be executed in accordance with procedures adopted
by the Mayor; provided, however, that only positions authorized and
listed in the budget are eligible to be paid. The Controller shall
be authorized to execute paychecks only for positions which are authorized
and listed in the current year's budget.
B.
Salary ranges - management positions.
(1)
The intent and purpose of this subsection is to provide salary
ranges for nonrepresented exempt management titled positions set forth
in the Annual Budget beginning in the 2016 budget year and remaining
in effect until new salary ranges are adopted.
(3)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, salaries
shall be set by the Mayor, provided that each resulting salary is
within the salary range set forth in Schedule A and based upon the
availability of funds appropriated by Council. Nothing herein is intended
to alter the review and approval process of the Annual Budget.
(4)
The salary ranges set forth in Schedule A may be amended or
substituted from time to time by resolution of Council or as otherwise
provided by law.
(5)
The initial salary ranges set forth in Schedule A are subject
to modification prior to final approval of a 2017 annual budget upon
Council's receipt of an outside professional salary study of
the City's exempt and nonexempt management positions.
[Ord. No. 42-1982]
The Business Administrator shall establish a schedule of fees
to be paid by the general public for reproduction services and shall
establish rules and regulations relative thereto. For the purposes
of this section, reproduction requests shall include photocopying,
microfilm reproduction, maps, pamphlets, and related documents and
materials.
[Ord. No. 9-1980]
A.
The Business Administrator is herein directed to satisfy and discharge
all undisputed bills presented for payment by City creditors within
90 days of receipt thereof.
B.
Should the Business Administrator anticipate that a particular bill
shall not be paid within the mandatory ninety-day period, the Business
Administrator shall document such nonpayment and forward said documentation
to the City Council, City Controller and City Solicitor.
