[Amended 12-19-1995 by Ord. No. 95-068]
The Mayor shall be the chief executive and administrative
officer of the City. He shall:
A.
Enforce the charter and ordinances of the municipality
and all general laws applicable thereto.
B.
Report annually to the Council and to the public on
the state of the municipality and the work of the previous year; he
shall also recommend to the Council whatever action or programs he
deems necessary for the improvement of the municipality and the welfare
of its residents. He may from time to time recommend any action or
programs he deems necessary or desirable for the municipality to undertake.
C.
Supervise, direct and control all departments of the
municipal government and require each department to make an annual
and such other reports on its work as he may deem desirable.
D.
Require such reports and examine such accounts, records
and operations of any board, commission or other agency of municipal
government as he deems necessary.
E.
Prepare and submit to the Council for its consideration
and adoption an annual operating budget and a capital budget, establish
the schedules and procedures to be followed by all municipal departments,
offices and agencies in connection therewith and supervise and administer
all phases of the budgetary process.
F.
Supervise the care and custody of all municipal property,
institutions and agencies and make recommendations concerning the
nature and location of municipal improvements and execute improvements
determined by the governing body.
G.
Sign all contracts, bonds or other instruments requiring
the consent of the municipality.
H.
Review, analyze and forecast trends of municipal services
and finances and programs of all boards, commissions, agencies and
other municipal bodies and report and recommend thereon to the Council.
I.
Supervise the development, installation and maintenance
of centralized budgeting, personnel and purchasing procedures as may
be authorized by ordinance.
J.
Negotiate contracts for the municipality, subject
to Council approval.
K.
Assure that all terms and conditions imposed in favor
of the municipality or its inhabitants in any statute, franchise or
other contract are faithfully kept and performed.
L.
Serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member of all appointive
bodies in municipal government of which he is not an official voting
member.
A.
As provided by the charter, the Mayor shall designate
the Business Administrator or any department head or the City Clerk
to act as Mayor whenever the Mayor shall be prevented by absence from
the municipality, disability or other cause from attending to the
duties of his office. During such time, the person so designated by
the Mayor shall possess all the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor.
As provided by the charter, whenever the Mayor shall have been unable
to attend to the duties of his office for a period of 60 consecutive
days for any of the above-stated reasons, an Acting Mayor shall be
appointed by the Council who shall succeed to all the rights, powers
and duties of the Mayor or the then Acting Mayor. Such appointee shall
have all of the functions, powers and duties of the office.
B.
Any such appointment shall terminate not later than
60 days after the date of the appointment and shall not thereafter
be renewable unless the Council shall by resolution authorize one
or more extensions of such period.
The Mayor shall have such administrative, secretarial,
clerical and other assistants as may be authorized within the limits
of available appropriations. They shall be removable at the pleasure
of the Mayor, and they shall serve in the unclassified service of
the civil service of the City. Said assistants shall be in addition
to those assigned to the office staff of the Mayor from within the
classified service of the civil service of the City.
[Amended 12-15-2015 by Ord. No. 15-089]
A.
Within the
limits of available appropriations, the Mayor is authorized to negotiate
and execute contracts and other legally binding obligations of the
City, where the said execution is subject to Municipal Council authorization
as required by law. Any such contractual document shall be signed
by the Mayor, authorized as to available appropriation by the Business
Administrator and Comptroller and approved by the Corporation Counsel
as to legal form and sufficiency.
B.
Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary, with regard to all legal claims against
the City, including but not limited to Workers' Compensation claims,
the Mayor and Council hereby authorize and grant consent to an expedited
approval process for settlements of $30,000 or less, such that an
agreement approved as to terms by the Business Administrator and as
to form and legality by the Corporation Counsel may be executed by
the Mayor without the need for an authorizing Resolution, so long
as the Corporation Counsel and/or the Business Administrator report
each such settlement to the Municipal Council President.
[Amended 4-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-018[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Subsection
C, concerning practices in accordance with Res. No. 15:786, which
immediately followed this subsection.
Within the office of the Mayor, there shall
be an Administrative Division, the head of which shall be the Mayor's
Administrative Assistant. The Division shall be responsible for the
discharge of all administrative functions of the office of the Mayor,
including secretarial support.
Within the office of the Mayor, there shall
be a Policy Planning and Management Division, the head of which shall
be designated "Director." The Division shall perform all functions
and discharge all duties necessary to assist the Mayor in formulating
policy recommendations for all City boards and agencies and the Council,
including but not limited to coordination of data collection activities
of City departments, analysis of such data, socioeconomic planning,
coordination of federal grant applications and federal program assignment
and an analysis, from time to time, of the use of federal and state
revenue sharing, block grant aid programs and grant funds.
