CITY OF PHARR --- CITY GOVERNMENT
The municipal government provided by the Charter of the City
of Pharr shall be known as the Board of Commissioners – City Manager Form of
Government.
The Board of Commissioners shall consist of a Mayor and six
(6) Commissioners and which shall enact local legislation, adopt budgets,
determine policies, and appoint the City Manager, who is held responsible to
the Board of Commissioners for the execution of the laws and the administration
of the government of the City. All
powers of the City shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by the City
Charter, or, if the manner be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be
prescribed by ordinance, the State Constitution, or by the statutes of the
State of Texas.
The Mayor and the other members of the Board of
Commissioners shall be elected by the City at large for a term of four (4)
years. The Commissioners will run for
places, designated as Place 1 through Place 6, and shall be elected by majority
vote.
The Mayor and the several Commissioners shall be qualified
electors of the City of Pharr, shall have attained the age of twenty-one (21)
years; and shall have resided for at least twelve (12) months next preceding
his/her election within the corporate limits of the City of Pharr, provided
that if any territory shall have been legally annexed to and incorporated
within the boundaries of the City of Pharr, after the effective date of the
Charger, any person who shall have resided in such annexed territory for twelve
(12) months next preceding such election and who posses all other
qualifications for Commissioner or Mayor shall be eligible to be elected Mayor
or Commissioner.
The Board of Commissioners shall appoint a City Clerk and an
Assistant City Clerk each of whom shall have had a minimum of two (2) years of
general office administration experience, or educational equivalent. Each shall hold their office for a term of
two (2) years unless sooner removed by the Board of Commissioners after having
been allowed a fair and impartial hearing before said Board of Commissioners,
if requested in writing.