The Board of Selectmen, during its first term of office under
the provisions of this Charter, shall adopt an ordinance providing
for the establishment of position descriptions for all Town employees
except employees of the Board of Education. Such ordinance shall include
personnel guidelines, job specifications, salary programs and such
other provisions as the Selectmen may deem to be appropriate and necessary.
Following the action of the Board of Selectmen pursuant to Section
901 of this chapter, the Town Manager shall cause to have prepared
a statement of the duties and responsibilities of each position in
the Town service and of the minimum qualifications for appointment
to such position. The statement so prepared shall become effective
upon the approval by resolution of the Board of Selectmen and may
be amended, upon recommendation of the Town Manager, by resolution
of the Board. New or additional positions may be created and changes
in the duties and responsibilities of existing positions may be made
by resolution of the Board of Selectmen upon the recommendation of
the Town Manager. A pay plan for all positions in the Town service
shall be similarly prepared and adopted and may be amended by resolution
of the Board of Selectmen. The Town Manager shall also cause to have
prepared a set of personnel rules which shall provide, among other
things, for the method of holding competitive examinations, probationary
periods of employment, hours of work, vacations, sick leaves and other
leaves of absence, removals and such other rules as may be necessary
to provide an adequate and systematic procedure for the administration
of the personnel affairs of the Town. Such rules and any amendments
thereto shall become effective upon being approved by resolution of
the Board of Selectmen and filed by the Town Manager with the Town
Clerk. Copies of such rules and any amendments thereto shall be distributed
to all Town employees.
The salaries, wages, or other compensation of all officers and
all employees of the Town, and such employees of the Board of Education
as are recommended by said Board shall be determined by the Board
of Selectmen, in conformity with a systematic pay plan for the positions
involved as prepared and recommended by the Town Manager, except as
otherwise provided by law. The salaries, or other compensation of
all elected officials of the Town shall, except as otherwise provided
by law, be determined by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with
the provisions of this Charter. For the purposes of Section 7-468(b)
of the General Statutes, the Town Manager shall have the sole authority
to recognize the exclusive bargaining agent for any unit of Town employees.
All officers and employees as may be required to do so by the
Board of Selectmen shall, before entering on their respective official
duties, execute to the Town, in the form prescribed by the Selectmen
and approved by the Town Attorney, and file with the Town Clerk, a
surety company bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the Board of Selectmen,
conditioned upon the honest and/or the faithful performance of such
official duties. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the
Board of Selectmen, if it deems it to be in the best interests of
the Town, from prescribing a name schedule bond, a schedule position
bond or blanket bond, or from prescribing which departments, officers,
agencies, boards or commissions shall be covered by a specific type
of the aforementioned bonds. Premiums for such bonds shall be paid
by the Town.
The provisions of the pension plan for Town employees in force
on the effective date of this Charter shall remain in full force and
effect until such time as said plan is amended, by ordinance.
