Whenever the Town Manager prepares such a plan,
the Board of Selectmen shall hold one or more public hearings on the
proposal giving notice by publication in a local newspaper, which notice shall describe the scope of the proposal and the time
and place at which the hearing will be held, not less than ten or
more than fourteen days following said publication. Following
such public hearing, the proposal, which may have been amended subsequent
to the public hearing, shall be submitted to the Town Meeting by an appropriate warrant article.
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An organization or reorganization plan shall become effective
at the expiration of sixty days following the date of
adjournment of the Town Meeting at which the proposal
is submitted unless the Town Meeting shall, by a majority vote, disapprove the plan. The Town Meeting
may vote only to approve or to disapprove the plan and may not vote
to amend or to alter it.
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The Town Manager, unless expressly prohibited by
the general laws of the Commonwealth or
this Charter, may, through the administrative code, reorganize,
consolidate or abolish any Town department, in whole
or in part; establish such new Town department as is deemed necessary to the same extent as is provided in Section 5-1(a) above, for by-laws; and for such purpose transfer the duties and powers and, so far as is consistent with the use for which the funds were voted by the Town, transfer the appropriation of one Town department to another; provided however, that no function
assigned by this Charter to a particular Town department may be discontinued or, unless this Charter specifically
so provides, assigned to any other.
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The Director of Public Works shall be responsible for the supervision
and coordination of all public works operations of the Town which are placed under his control by this Charter,
by by-law, by vote of the Town, or otherwise. Public Works operations may include, but need not be limited to, the following operations: refuse collection and disposal, forestry services, protection of natural resources, maintenance of all municipal buildings, grounds, property and facilities, including maintenance of school buildings and grounds upon request of the Triton Regional School District Committee, cemeteries, parks, salt marsh areas and recreation areas, conservation areas, public shade trees, water supply and distribution, sewers and sewerage systems, streets, roads, sidewalks and highway drainage systems, and engineering services. Other activities and functions which are related to a department of public works may from time to time be assigned to the department in accordance with by-laws or an administrative code, as provided in Section 5-2.
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The Finance Director/Town Accountant shall be responsible
for the supervision and coordination of all divisions within the department
in accordance with state statutes, Town by-laws, administrative
code and directives of the Town Manager.
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