[Amended 3-14-2023 by L.L. No. 22-2023, effective 4-4-2023]
There shall be in the Town of Hempstead a Department of Information
and Technology. The head of such Department shall be the Commissioner
of Information and Technology, who shall be appointed by and who shall
serve at the pleasure of the Town Board, at such salary as may from
time to time be fixed by said Town Board. The Commissioner of Information
and Technology shall be appointed on the basis of experience and qualifications
of the duties of such office. The Commissioner shall be vested with
authority and control of the Department and may appoint Deputy Commissioners
and a secretary. The Deputy Commissioners, individually, shall have
the authority to act for and in place of the Commissioner of Information
and Technology in all regards. The Commissioner shall designate, in
writing, the order in which the deputies shall act, in case of the
Commissioner's absence, inability to work, or vacancy. The Commissioner
shall have the power to appoint and remove all other subordinate officers
and other employees and to assign them to their respective duties.
The Commissioner, when specifically authorized to do so by the Town
Board, may from time to time employ such additional persons, including
special and technical consultants, as may be necessary. The Commissioner
shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service. The position
of Deputy Commissioner shall, pursuant to the statutory authority
contained in the Municipal Home Rule Law and the Civil Service Law,
be in the exempt class.
The Department of Information and Technology, under the general
supervision of the Commissioner, shall have the following powers and
duties:
A. To develop, organize and direct centralized and decentralized information
and services.
B. To plan and administer departmental policy, procedures and programs.
C. To be responsible for the development and implementation of long-range
plans for the use of data processing and information systems to meet
the needs of all departments.
D. To establish guidelines to determine feasibility, priorities, logic
and economics for the optimum use of information systems.
E. To determine the need for and recommend all information and data
processing equipment necessary to ensure maximum efficiency and economic
benefit.
F. To research, analyze and communicate new concepts, ideas and techniques
in information systems and data processing programs.
The Department of Systems and Data Processing, as it presently
exists, is hereby transferred in its entirety, including all property,
equipment and budgetary appropriations, to the Department of Information
and Technology. The employees of said department shall be continued
as employees in the Department of Information and Technology, with
the same classification, pension and retirement rights and privileges
as they had immediately prior to such transfer.