There shall be a Township Manager appointed
by the Council. The Manager shall hold office for an indefinite term
and may be removed by majority vote of the Council, pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:69A-93, as amended and supplemented. The Manager may designate
a qualified administrative officer of the municipality to perform
the duties of the Manager during his/her temporary absence or disability.
In the event of his/her failure to make such designation, the Council
may by resolution appoint an administrative officer of the municipality
to perform the duties of the Manager during such absence or disability
until the Manager shall return or his/her disability shall cease.
The Township Manager shall be appointed on the
basis of his/her executive and administrative qualifications with
special reference to his/her actual experience in, or his/her knowledge
of, accepted practice in respect to the duties of his/her office as
a municipal manager. At the time of his/her appointment, he/she need
not be a resident of the Township or New Jersey but during his/her
tenure of office he/she may reside outside the Township, only with
approval of the Council.
The Manager shall receive as salary such sums
as may be fixed and adopted by the Council in the Township Salary
Ordinance.
The Manager shall be the Chief Executive Officer
of the Township and at all times be responsible to the Council for
all actions relative to the duties and responsibilities of the office,
to the extent not prohibited by law. The Manager shall be responsible
to the Council for carrying out all policies established by it and
for the proper administration of all affairs of the Township within
the jurisdiction of the Council.
The Township Manager, for the purpose of carrying
out his/her responsibilities, shall:
A.
Be the chief executive and administrative official
of the Township.
B.
Execute all laws and ordinances of the Township.
C.
Appoint and remove a Deputy Manager if one be authorized
by the Council, all department heads and all other officers, subordinates,
and assistants, except that the Manager may authorize the head of
a department to appoint and remove subordinates in such department,
supervise and control his/her appointees, and report all appointments
or removals at the next meeting thereafter of the Council. Pursuant
to the Charter, any provision of general law conferring the appointing
power or other power upon the Mayor or other executive head of the
municipality shall be construed as meaning the Township Manager, and
the appointments or the power exercised by the Township Manager, in
accordance with such provision, shall be classified and given the
same force and effect as if executed by the official named therein,
except that members of the Board of Education and of the Trustees
of the public library, wherever required to be appointed by any such
provision by any board or official of the municipality, shall be appointed
by the Mayor. The Manager shall report all appointments and removals
of personnel within the Township at the next meeting thereafter of
the Council;
D.
Negotiate contracts for the Township subject to the
approval of the Council, make recommendations concerning the nature
and location of municipal improvements, and execute municipal improvements
as determined by the Council.
E.
See that all terms and conditions imposed in favor
of the Township or its inhabitants in any statute, public utility
franchise or other contract are faithfully kept and performed, and
upon knowledge of any violation call the same to the attention of
the Council.
F.
Attend all meetings of the Council with the right
to take part in the discussions, but without the right to vote.
G.
Recommend to the Council for adoption such measures
as he/she may deem necessary or expedient, keep the Council advised
of the financial condition of the Township, make reports to the Council
as requested by it, and at least once a year make an annual report
of his/her work for the benefit of the Council and the public.
H.
Investigate at any time the affairs of any officer
or department of the Township.
I.
Perform such other duties as may be required of the
Manager by ordinance or resolution of the Council.
The Manager shall:
A.
Pursuant to the Charter and § 2-13 of this chapter, appoint and remove all department heads and all other officers, subordinates and assistants other than Township officers, employees or positions for which appointment or removal is reserved elsewhere by statute. Except where otherwise expressly required by the Charter, general law or this chapter, all department heads and subordinate officers and employees subject to appointment by the Manager shall serve at the pleasure of the Manager, subject to suspension or removal by the Manager.
B.
Direct and supervise the administration of all departments
of the Township government and be responsible for the maintenance
of sound personnel policies and administrative practices.
C.
Approval all bills and vouchers for payment subject
to preaudit and control as provided herein.
D.
Maintain a continuing review and analysis of budget
operations, work programs, and costs of Township services.
E.
Establish working, personnel, vacation and sick leave
schedules and appropriate records and reports.
F.
Approve or prescribe the internal organization of
each department.
G.
Assign and transfer administrative functions, powers
and duties among and within departments, subject to the Charter and
this chapter.
H.
Delegate to department heads such of the Manager powers
as he/she may deem necessary for efficient administration.
A.
Creation of position; compensation. There is hereby
created and established the office of Deputy Manager whose compensation
shall be as provided for in the Salary Ordinance of the Township,
and who shall be appointed by the Manager.
B.
Duties. The Deputy Manager shall be under the authority
and supervision of the Manager and shall perform the functions and
duties assigned to him/her by the Manager. The Deputy Manager shall
perform the duties of the Manager during the temporary absence or
disability of the Manager and until the Manager shall return or his/her
disability shall cease.
All materials, supplies and equipment, work
and labor under contract required by any department, office or agency
of the Township shall be purchased by or under the direction of the
Manager.
A.
Purchasing agent. The Manager shall be the purchasing
agent for the Township and may designate an administrative officer
of the Township to serve in that capacity.
B.
Purchase controls. Purchases shall be authorized only
upon requisition of a department head which shall be made to the Manager
at such times in such form as the Manager may prescribe or approve.
All purchases made and contracts awarded for any supplies, materials
or equipment or contractual services shall be pursuant to a written
requisition from the head of the department against which the appropriation
will be charged and the certification of the Chief Financial Officer
that a sufficient balance of appropriation is available to pay therefor.
All such purchase contracts shall conform with the applicable requirements
of state statutes for competitive bidding. Except as the Manager may
specifically authorize in case of emergency, no purchase shall be
made and no bill, claim or voucher shall be approved, unless the procedures
prescribed by or pursuant to this chapter have been followed. The
Manager may at his/her option in cases where competitive bidding is
not required, submit a proposed purchase to competitive bidding, open
the bids obtained, and award contracts.
C.
Award of contracts; execution. Where contracts are
by law required to be let to competitive public bidding, the Council
may, upon recommendation of the Manager, let the contract in the manner
prescribed by law. The Mayor or, in the event of the Mayor's absence
or his/her disability or inability to act, the Deputy Mayor shall
execute and sign contracts let and authorized pursuant to the Charter
and ordinances, and their respective signatures shall be attested
by the Clerk.
D.
Standards and tests. The purchasing agent shall establish
and approve uniform standards for requisitions and purchases; shall
control the delivery of all supplies, materials and equipment and
other items purchased; and shall make or cause to be made proper tests,
checks and inspections thereof. He/she shall ascertain whether the
supplies, materials, equipment and other items purchased comply with
the specifications and shall cause laboratory or other tests to be
made whenever in his/her opinion it is necessary to determine whether
the materials or supplies furnished are of the quality and standard
required, and shall accept or reject the deliveries in accordance
with the results of the inspection.
E.
Storerooms. The purchasing agent shall control any
general storerooms or stockrooms which the Council may authorize.
The purchasing agent may make transfers of supplies, material and
equipment between departments, officers and agencies; sell surplus,
obsolete, unused supplies, material and equipment; and make any other
sales authorized by the Council.
A.
Preparation of the budget. The Township budget shall
be prepared by the Manager.
B.
Budget requests. During the month of November in each
year, the Manager shall require all department heads to submit requests
for appropriations for the ensuing budget year, and to appear before
the Manager at such meetings as the Manager deems necessary on the
various requests pursuant to law.
C.
Budget document. Upon the basis of the departmental
requests, the budget hearings, his/her analysis of the needs and resources
of the Township, and such policy guides as may be prescribed by resolution
of the Council, the Manager shall prepare his/her recommended budget
in the form required by general law for Township budgets. On or before
January 15 in each year, the Manager shall present to the Council
the budget document consisting of:
D.
Budget message. The budget message shall consist of
such explanatory comments, exhibits, and schedules concerning the
budget as the Manager may deem desirable, together with:
(1)
An outline of the proposed financial policies for
the ensuing budget year, including explanations of the important features
of the budget, and of any major changes in policy.
(2)
An analysis of revenue and costs and of work performance
contemplated by the budget so far as appropriate units of measurement
may have been developed and installed.
(3)
A statement of pending capital projects and proposed
new capital projects, relating the amounts required for capital purposes
to the down payments and other expenditures financed from current
appropriations and to the amount of bonds to be issued during the
budget year.
(4)
A capital program of proposed capital projects for
the budget year and the next five years, which may be prepared by
the Township Planning Board, together with the Manager's comments
thereon and estimates of cost.
E.
Budget operation. The Manager shall control the expenditure
programs of each department through the application of work programs
and periodic allotments of budgeted appropriations. No department
shall incur any expenditure in excess of the amount so allotted. Whenever
it shall appear to the Manager that the amount appropriated for any
department, or for any purpose within a department, is in excess of
the amount required to be expended to provide the quantity and quality
of services authorized by the budget, the Manager may, by administrative
order with the approval of the Council, reduce the amount available
for expenditure by any department during the remainder of any year.
If at any time during the budget year the Manager shall ascertain
that the Township government is faced with the probability of incurring
a cash deficit for the current year, the Manager shall reconsider
the work programs and allotments of the several departments. Upon
such reconsideration, he/she may by administrative order with the
approval of the Council revise budget allotments so as to forestall,
so far as possible, the making of commitments and expenditures in
excess of the revenues to be realized during the fiscal year.
There shall exist within the office of the Township
Manager an Economic Development Advisory Committee. The Economic Development
Advisory Committee as heretofore established and/or governed under
Subsection 2-3.10, Paragraphs a through g, herein of Chapter II (Administration)
of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Howell, New Jersey,[1] is hereby continued to the extent that it is not inconsistent
with the Charter and this chapter. The members of the Economic Development
Advisory Committee, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in prior
ordinances, shall be appointed by the Township Council.
A.
Establishment. There is hereby created and established
in the Township of Howell a committee to be known as the "Howell Township
Economic Development Advisory Committee."
B.
Purpose. The Economic Development Committee (hereinafter to be known as the "Economic Development Advisory Committee") shall assist and advise the Township Council in implementing a construction program for sustained and selective economic growth for the Township with particular emphasis upon an enlightened and responsible program to encourage commercial and industrial development and location within Howell Township in furtherance and in accordance with the Master Plan and Chapter 188, Land Use.
C.
Authority. The Committee shall have the authority
to employ such staff and expend such sums of money in furtherance
of its programs as shall from time to time be authorized and budgeted
by the Township Council.
D.
Appointment of Commissioners; qualifications. The
Howell Township Economic Development Advisory Committee shall consist
of nine members to be appointed by majority vote of the Township Council.
All members of the Economic Development Advisory Committee shall be
residents of the Township and shall be chosen with a special view
to his or her qualification and fitness for service on the Committee.
Vacancies in membership shall be filled by majority vote of the Township
Council.
E.
Terms and vacancies.
(1)
There presently exists an Economic Development Advisory
Committee in the Township established by resolution of the former
Township Committee and whose members and Chair were appointed on January
1, 1981. The members of this Committee shall continue to serve the
functions set forth in this section until the expiration of their
terms on December 31, 1981. At the time of the reorganization meeting
of the former Township Committee in January of 1982, the members of
the Economic Development Advisory Committee shall be appointed for
the following terms:
(2)
Thereafter, at the conclusion of the respective terms
of the members thereby appointed, each new member shall be appointed
for a term of three years, it being the intention of this subsection
to distribute the expiration of terms upon the Economic Development
Advisory Committee evenly over succeeding years. Any vacancies shall
be filled by appointment of the Township Council to complete the unexpired
term.
F.
Appointment of Chair. The Chair of the Economic Development
Advisory Committee shall be chosen by majority vote of the Township
Council and shall serve for a term of one year expiring December 31
of the year in which he or she is appointed.
G.
Procedures. The Economic Development Advisory Committee
is authorized and directed to adopt bylaws to govern its procedures
and shall keep records of its meetings and activities and shall submit
to the Township Council, on or before December 1 of each year, a comprehensive
and detailed report concerning its activities and operations.
[1]
Editor's Note: Subsection 2-6.3, Paragraphs
a through g, were previously codified as Subsections 2-26.1 through
2-26.7 of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Howell.
[Added 12-10-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-39]
A.
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish policy and procedures
regarding the notification of the Township Council by the Township
Manager in a timely manner whenever specified incidents occur within
the Township of Howell. This policy is in conjunction with, and in
further support of, the general order in place within the Howell Township
Police Department.
B.
Council notification of significant incidents. To ensure the Mayor
and Township Council are aware of significant public safety incidents,
the following incidents may be briefed to the Township Council by
the Manager or his/her designee within 24 hours of such incident.
It is further understood that all information is confidential until
such time as the need for confidentiality no longer exists or when
disclosure of same would not violate any local, state or federal law.
(1)
Major injury or death of a Township employee.
(2)
Officer-involved shooting.
(3)
Traffic collision involving a Township vehicle resulting in a serious
injury requiring hospitalization.
(4)
Hostage or barricaded subject.
(5)
Riot or other major disturbance.
(6)
Township participation in disaster response to other jurisdictions.
(7)
Homicide or any unusual event leading to death.
(8)
Major or serious fire.
(9)
Serious hazardous materials spill/release.
(10)
Any event that garners media attention.
(11)
A substantial school-related incident.
(12)
Felony arrest of any Township employee or elected official.
(13)
Any public safety event involving an elected official, Manager,
department head that comes to the attention of the Manager.
(14)
Activation of the Township's Emergency Operations Center.
C.
Requirements in existing law (e.g., juvenile information, notification
of immediate family members) or the need to protect crime victims
may restrict the ability to provide information. This policy is not
intended to circumvent legal limits to law enforcement restricted
information. Notification of such incidents described herein shall
comply with existing local, state and federal laws.
