The executive powers of the town shall be vested
solely in the mayor, and may be exercised by him either personally
or through the several town agencies under his general supervision
and control. The mayor shall cause the charter, the laws, ordinances
and orders for the government of the town to be enforced, and shall
cause a record of all his official acts to be kept.
The mayor shall exercise a general supervision
and direction over all town agencies, unless otherwise provided by
law. Each town agency shall furnish to him, forthwith upon his request,
any information, materials or otherwise as he may request and as the
needs of his office and the interest of the town may require.
The mayor shall appoint all city officers, department
heads and members of multiple-member bodies for whom no other method
of appointment or selection is provided for by the charter, excepting
only persons serving under the school committee, persons appointed
by state officials and persons serving under the city council.
Whenever a vacancy, either temporary or permanent,
occurs in a town office and the needs of the town require that such
office be filled, the mayor may designate the head of another town
agency or a town officer or town employee, or some other person to
perform the duties of the office on a temporary basis until such time
as the position can be filled as otherwise provided by law, by the
charter or by ordinance. The mayor shall file a certificate in substantially
the following form, with the town clerk, whenever he makes a designation
under this section:
I designate (name of person) to perform the
duties of the office of (designate Office in which vacancy exists)
on a temporary basis until the office can be filled by (here set out
the regular procedure for filling the vacancy, or when the regular
officer shall return). I certify that said person is qualified to
perform the duties which will be required and that I make this designation
solely in the interests of the Town of Agawam. (signed) Mayor
Every order, ordinance, resolution or vote adopted
or passed by the town council, relative to the affairs of the town,
except the election of officers, shall be presented to the mayor for
his approval. If he approves he shall sign it; if he disapproves it,
he shall return it, with his objections thereto in writing, to the
town council, which shall enter his objections at large on its records,
and again consider it, and the same shall be deemed approved and be
in force if it is not returned by the mayor, as herein provided, within
ten days after it was presented to him. If the town council, notwithstanding
such disapproval, by the mayor, shall again pass the order, ordinance,
resolution or vote by a two-thirds yea and nay vote of all the members,
it shall then be in force, but the vote thereon shall not be taken
before ten days, nor after thirty days, from the date of its return
to the town council.