The office of North East Borough Manager is hereby created by
the North East Borough Council.
The Manager shall be appointed for an indefinite term by a majority
of the members of the North East Borough Council. The Manager shall
serve at the pleasure of the North East Borough Council, and he may
be removed at any time by a majority vote of all its members.
[Amended 6-6-2005 by Ord. No. 829; 8-5-2013 by Ord. No. 876]
The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his executive
and administrative abilities, with special reference to the duties
of the office as herein outlined. The Manager need not be a resident
of the Borough of North East or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
at the time of appointment but shall, within 60 days of appointment,
become a resident of an area in the United States of America that
is within a fifty-mile radius of the Borough of North East and maintain
his/her residence in the United States of America within a fifty-mile
radius of the Borough of North East for and during his/her appointment
as a condition thereof.
Before entering upon his duties, the Manager shall give a bond
in the sum established annually pursuant to a resolution of the North
East Borough Council, with a bonding company as surety, to be approved
by the North East Borough Council, conditioned upon the faithful performance
of his duties, the premium for said bond to be paid by the Borough
of North East.
The salary of the Borough of North East Manager shall be fixed
from time to time by the North East Borough Council.
The Manager shall be the Borough of North East employee directly
responsible to the North East Borough Council. All other employees
shall be held responsible to North East Borough Council only through
the Manager. North East Borough Council members shall not give orders,
publicly or privately, directly to any subordinate of the Manager.
North East Borough Council members may contact subordinates of the
Manager in the performance of their duties as department heads and
committee chairperson but all programs shall be administered by the
Manager.
If the Manager becomes ill or needs to be absent from the Borough
of North East, he shall designate one qualified member of his staff
to perform the duties of the Manager during his absence or disability.
The person so designated shall not perform these duties for a period
longer than two weeks without the approval of the North East Borough
Council.