The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any commission, board, department or office under the Connecticut General Statutes or any ordinance or regulation in force at the time this Charter shall take effect, if such commission, board, department or office is abolished by this Charter, shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by the commission, board, department or office upon which are imposed corresponding or like functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this Charter.
All commissions, boards, departments or offices abolished by this Charter, whether elective or appointive, shall continue in the performance of their duties until provisions shall have been made for the discontinuance of such commissions, boards, departments or offices and the performance of their duties by other commissions, boards, departments or offices created under this Charter and until the Town Clerk shall have notified the members of such commissions, boards, departments or offices as are abolished by this Charter that their successors have qualified.
All persons holding permanent positions in the service of the Town on the effective date of this Charter, whose positions are included in the classified service by the terms of this Charter, shall immediately become members of the classified service and retain such positions until promoted, transferred, reduced in rank or removed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. All other employees of the Town on the effective date of this Charter, whose positions are not abolished by the provisions of the Charter, shall retain such positions pending action by the Council or the appropriate officer charged by this Charter with powers of appointment and removal. Any provision of law in force at the time this Charter shall take effect and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter, in relation to personnel, appointments, ranks, grades, tenure of office, promotions, removal, pension and retirement rights, civil rights or any other rights or privileges of employees of the Town or any office, department or agency thereof, shall continue in effect, until or unless amended or repealed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
(a) 
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter and except in any outstanding union or employee contract or as provided in the Connecticut General Statutes, any appointive officer or employee receiving compensation for employment may be removed by the authority which appointed the officer or employee for good cause shown, provided that the appointive officer or employee shall first be given notice, in writing, of his or her removal, which notice shall specify the grounds therefor. Thereafter, within five days from the receipt of such notice, such officer or employee may request a public hearing before the Council to review such removal, which hearing shall be held not more than 20 days after receipt of such request. The Council shall, within 10 days from such hearing, affirm, modify or reverse the decision of the appointing authority.
(b) 
No employee of the Board of Education below the rank of superintendent or supervising agent who holds a regular certificate of qualification issued by the State Board of Education shall be removed except in accordance with the Connecticut General Statutes.
Any elected or appointed body of the Town of Monroe must have a quorum present to begin and conduct a public hearing.
All general laws applicable to the Town and all ordinances and bylaws of the Town shall continue in full force and effect except as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter. All special acts or parts of special acts relating to the Town are repealed with the exception of those not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter and provided that any boards, commissions, agencies, committees or officers not specifically provided for in this Charter and heretofore provided for by resolution or ordinance may be abolished by resolution of the Council.
Authority is given for the purchase of a blanket bond conditioned upon honesty and/or faithful performance of official duties of those officials required by the Council to post a surety company bond. Premiums for any official bonds shall be paid by the Town.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed by law.
If any section of this Charter shall be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which such section so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of section to which such holding shall directly apply.
Upon approval by the electors of the Town, the provisions of this Charter shall take effect on December 5, 2002. The existing Charter dated December 11, 1989, shall remain in effect until that date. Nothing contained herein shall limit or terminate the term of office of any board or commission member. The First Selectman shall make appointments from the provisions of this Charter only as vacancies arise as set forth under Chapter IV, § 3, herein.