SCHEDULE

Section 1. Purpose and Status of Schedule Chapter. This schedule chapter is to provide an orderly transition from a city organized and possessing powers delegated to it by statutory law, to a constitutional home rule charter city. It shall constitute a part of this Charter only to the extent and for the time required to accomplish that end.

Section 2. Prior Legislation Preserved. The Code of Ordinances of the Town of Valdez and all resolutions and rules of the council, to the extent that they are consistent with this Charter, shall continue in full force, until repealed or amended. When this Charter requires the council to adopt or provide any Code provision, any existing provision which meets such requirement shall suffice.

Section 3. Election to Adopt Charter. (a) This Charter shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the Town of Valdez at the city election to be held on the 21st day of February, 1961, between the hours of 8:00 o’clock a.m. and 8:00 o’clock p.m. All provisions for the submission of the question of adopting this Charter at such election shall be made as provided by law and the Code.

(b)    If a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question is in favor of the adoption of this Charter, the town clerk shall perform all acts required by law to make this Charter effective.

(c)    If so adopted, this Charter shall take effect and become law at 12:00 o’clock a.m. on the 27th day of February, 1961.

Section 4. City Officers. Each person who is holding an elective or appointive city office on the effective date of this Charter shall continue to perform the duties of his office in a manner consistent with this Charter, until superseded as in this Charter provided, without the requirement of any additional oath or bond. The mayor elected October 1960 shall become a full-fledged councilman. Until otherwise provided under authority of this Charter, the compensation of each office shall continue under and be subject to this Charter.

Section 5. Council to Organize Following Adoption of Charter. If this Charter is adopted, the council shall convene in the council chambers on the 27th day of February, 1961, at 8:00 o’clock p.m., and shall organize as in this Charter provided.

Section 6. Transition of Government. The council shall resolve and provide for all matters necessary for the inauguration of the city government under this Charter and the transition from the former government of the city.

Section 7. Vested Rights and Liabilities. No right or liability of the City of Valdez existing on the effective date of this Charter shall be affected in any manner by the adoption of this Charter.

Agreed upon by the members of the Charter Commission of the Town of Valdez, Alaska, assembled in the Town of Valdez this 3rd day of January, 1961, in the year of our Lord the One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty, and of the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union of the United States of America, the second:

    MAX. H. WELLS, Chairman

    MARVIN BEALS

    JACK DE VAULT

    ROBERT DITMAN

    GEORGE GILSON

    WILLIAM GROWDEN

    OWEN JOHNSON

    FRANCIS KRCH

    HELEN L. LONG