SECTION 2.
The Administrator shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town. Without limiting
the foregoing, the Administrator shall perform and discharge the following functions and
duties: (a) daily administration
of the Town;
(b) recruitment and recommendations for
appointment by the Board of Selectmen of all department heads, except the Librarian, the
Superintendent of Schools, the Treasurer/Collector, the Town Clerk, and any other
department head who is elected or who is appointed by another elected board or commission,
provided that in the case of the Director of Recreation any recommendation must be
approved by the Park and Recreation Commission, that in the case of the Director of the
Council on Aging any recommendation must be approved by the council on aging and that in
the case of the Rent Control Board director any recommendation must be approved by the
Rent Control Board, and in making such recommendations the Administrator may in his
discretion recommend for appointment as department head single candidates whom the Board
of Selectmen shall either appoint or reject until one is appointed.
(c) supervision, written evaluation and
training of all department heads except Personnel in the School Department;
(d) coordination of intra -and
intergovernmental affairs;
(e) acting as the administrative
spokesperson for the Town;
(f) formulation of the annual financial
plan, including detailed projections of all revenues and expenditures;
(g) recommendations with respect to
departmental and non-departmental expenditures, the Capital Improvement Plan submitted by
the Planning Board, the financial impact of warrant articles, and guidelines for
collective bargaining;
(h) approval of payment and expense
warrants upon the treasury of the Town, under section fifty-six of chapter forty-one of
the General Laws;
(i) recommendations for the removal for
just cause, by the Board of Selectmen, of any department head appointment by the
Selectmen;
(j) recommendations concerning collective
bargaining proposals for the Town, exclusive of the School Department;
(k) submission to the Board of Selectmen
and to town meeting of plans to reorganize, consolidate or abolish departments,
commissions, boards or offices under his direction and supervision, or to establish new
departments, commissions, boards and offices, or both, subject to enactment of home rule
legislation if otherwise legally required; and
(l) performance of such other duties and
responsibilities as are delegated to the administrator by the Board of Selectmen.
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