There shall be a Department of Municipal Finance responsible
for the performance of all of the fiscal and financial activities
of the Town. The Department of Municipal Finance shall be responsible
for the coordination of all of the duties and responsibilities related
to fiscal and financial activities which are performed by or under
the authority of the Town Accountant, the Treasurer/Collector, the
Trust Fund Commissioners, the Board of Assessors, and the MIS Department,
and it may have such additional powers, duties and responsibilities
with respect to fiscal and financial-related functions and activities
as may from time to time be provided by ordinance.
The Department of Municipal Finance shall be under the direct
control and supervision of a Director of Municipal Finance who shall
be appointed by and who shall be responsible to the Mayor. The Director
of Municipal Finance shall be a person especially fitted by education,
experience and training to perform the duties of the office.
The Director of Municipal Finance shall serve for an indefinite
term.
The Director of Municipal Finance shall be responsible for the
supervision and coordination of all activities of the Department of
Municipal Finance under state law, Town ordinances, administrative
code and rules and regulations. The Director of Municipal Finance
shall serve, ex officio, as the Mayor may from time to time specify,
as the Treasurer/Collector. The Director of Municipal Finance shall
also serve as the Town's chief procurement officer and shall
oversee all procurement-related activities.
Whenever it shall be necessary to execute any deed conveying
land, or any other instrument required to carry into effect any vote
of the Town Council, the same shall be executed by the Treasurer/Collector,
or the person performing the duties of the Treasurer/Collector, in
behalf of the Town, unless otherwise provided by law or by vote of
the Town Council.
There is established under the control of the Director of Municipal
Finance a fund to be known as the "Cemeteries Perpetual Care Fund"
in which fund may be deposited any gift received and accepted by the
Mayor or payment required by the Mayor, on the sale of cemetery lots,
for perpetual care of certain lots, the income therefrom to be used
for the perpetual care of such lots. All such gifts or payments shall
be recorded on the cemetery lot records of the Town Clerk.