[Amended 1-10-2017]
A Department of Human Services is hereby created under the authority
of Section 1 of Chapter VI of the Town Charter. Said department may
also identify itself as the Department of Social Services and be identified
herein as such.
[Amended 10-7-2019]
A.Â
The Department of Social Services shall be headed
by a Director of Social Services, who shall be appointed by and responsible
to the Town Manager. Such Director shall be the Director of Health
and shall be vested with the exercise within the Town of all powers,
privileges and duties as are vested in and imposed upon town health
officers under the Connecticut General Statutes.
D.Â
The Department of Social Services shall analyze and
determine the need for health, housing and social service programs
in the community, shall take such action or make such recommendations
as necessary to promote the meeting of such needs and shall cooperate
with private or other governmental agencies in the promotion or conduct
of necessary programs.
[Amended 10-7-2019]
The Department of Social Services shall be vested
with the exercise within the Town of all the powers and duties relating
to poor, infirm and dependent persons as are vested by law in the
Selectmen of towns or as otherwise provided in the Connecticut General
Statutes.
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former § 12-24, Transfer of powers,
duties and responsibilities, was repealed 10-7-2019.
[Amended 10-7-2019]
Public assistance payments not reimbursable
by the State of Connecticut may be made to qualified local recipients,
at the discretion of the Department of Social Services, up to an amount
appropriated annually by the Town Council under the heading "Local
Assistance."
