Notice of Public Hearing

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FINANCE COMMITTEE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

A Public Hearing on the following proposed Ordinances will be held before the Finance Committee on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Council Chambers, 869 Park Avenue, Cranston, RI. pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Charter.

Complete copies of proposed Ordinances are available for public review at the City Clerk’s Office and the Cranston Central Library and can be viewed on the City’s website cranstonri.com under calendar by clicking on the meeting date.

“Individuals requesting interpreter services for the deaf or hard of hearing must notify the City Clerk’s Office at 461-1000 ext. 3197 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the hearing date.”

Steven A. Stycos, Chair Maria Medeiros Wall, JD

Finance Committee City Clerk

PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 08-15-03 IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON, 2005, ENTITLED “POLICE DEPARTMENT” (Composition)

Section 1. Title 2, Chapter 2.16 entitled POLICE DEPARTMENT, is hereby amended to read as follows:

2.16.010 - Composition.

A. The police department of the city shall consist of sworn officers.

B. The sworn members of the police department shall be as follows: one chief of police who shall hold the rank of colonel, two majors, six captains, eight lieutenants, nineteen twenty (19) (20) sergeants, and one hundred sixteen seventeen (117) (116) police officers. Provided, however, that upon the next retirement of a sergeant from the Cranston Police Department after date of the enactment of this ordinance, the total number of sergeants shall be reduced to nineteen (19) sergeants and the total number of police officers shall return to one hundred seventeen (117) police officers.

C. A police department patrol officer who is permanently assigned as a police department prosecution officer shall be known as an inspector of police while serving in this capacity.

In the event of a transfer of a police department patrol officer from the position of inspector of police, police department prosecution officer to another permanent patrol officer position within the police department, such police department patrol officer will no longer be known as an inspector of police but this title will be assumed by his or her replacement.

Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect upon its final adoption.

Sponsored by: Councilman Stycos

8/27/15

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