[Amended 12-6-2023 by Ord. No. B-623[1]]
There is hereby established in the government of the City of
Hoboken a department that shall be known as the "Department of Climate
Action and Innovation."
[Amended 12-6-2023 by Ord. No. B-623]
Said Department shall embrace and there is hereby allocated
and assigned thereto the Office of the Director, Division of Information
Systems, Division of Engineering, including the Water Utility, Division
of Innovation and Data, Division of Capital Planning, and the Division
of Sustainability and Resiliency.
There is hereby assigned and transferred to said Department all the subordinate officers and employees in the City of Hoboken holding their offices and positions under tenure of office under any law of this state or Title 11A, Civil Service, of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey and now exercising and performing any of the functions, powers and duties in the offices and divisions enumerated in Section 39-2.
There is hereby transferred and assigned to said Department
all of the property, books, papers and records relating to any of
the offices and other governmental agencies hereinabove allocated
and assigned to said Department, except such books, papers and records
as are now required by law or the ordinances of the City of Hoboken
to be kept in the office of some other officer or department of the
City government.
[Amended 12-6-2023 by Ord. No. B-623]
There is hereby created the office of Director of the Department
of Climate Action and Innovation. The Director shall be appointed
by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council and shall
serve during the term of the Mayor appointing him and until the appointment
and qualification of his/her successor and shall be subject to removal
as provided by law. Vacancies in the office of Director shall be filled
in the same manner as the original appointment but for the unexpired
term only.
The Director shall be head of the Department and, in addition
to the functions, powers and duties that are hereby or may hereafter
be conferred and imposed upon him/her by law and the ordinances of
the City, shall:
A.
Exercise supervision and have general responsibility for the operations
of said Department and of the personnel employed herein.
B.
Supervise the organization of the Department and changes in the organization
thereof, and to the extent to which the organization of the Department
is not prescribed by law, may additionally organize his/her Department
into such divisions or bureaus and make such assignment of powers
and duties among them and, from time to time, change such organization
or assignment as he/she may deem advisable.
[Amended 12-6-2023 by Ord. No. B-623]
C.
Formulate and adopt, subject to the approval of the Mayor, rules
and regulations for the efficient conduct of the work and general
administration of the Department and the officers and employees thereof.
D.
Make periodic reports with such recommendations as he deems appropriate
to the Mayor and to the Council concerning the affairs of the Department
under his jurisdiction.
The personnel staff in the Office of the Director may include
clerical, operational, supervisory and managerial positions as deemed
necessary within the budgetary limits established by the Council.
All appropriations available or to become available to any department,
office or other governmental agency, the functions, powers and duties
of which are hereby assigned and transferred to said Department are
hereby transferred to the Department established hereby and shall
be available for the objects and purposes for which appropriated.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 39-8.1, Fees, added 4-21-2010 by Ord. No.
Z-34, as amended, was repealed 2-15-2023 by Ord. No. B-535.
