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City presents code cleanup and reorganization ordinance, defines divisions and names new directors
Summary
The administration proposed a municipal-code update to organize executive-branch departments into seven divisions, define division directors and codify reporting relationships; the ordinance does not itself create positions or FTEs and mirrors the mayor's proposed budget structure.
City attorney Adam McDaniel presented an ordinance to codify the mayor's proposed executive-branch structure into the Spokane Municipal Code ahead of the mayor's budget release. The ordinance would define "divisions" (two or more administrative departments grouped together), streamline textual references, and reduce the number of named divisions from nine to seven by organizing departments into clearer divisions such as Communications & Marketing, Community & Economic Development, Finance & Administration, Housing & Human Services, Public Works, Spokane Police and a new Transportation & Sustainability division.
McDaniel said the ordinance is not the budget and does not itself create positions or authorize…
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