[Amended 7-17-1973 by Ord. No. 382]
The office of Borough Manager is hereby created by the Borough
of Mount Holly Springs.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Manager shall be appointed for a term not to exceed two
years by a majority of all members of Council; the contract must be
renewed. The Manager shall serve at the pleasure of the Council and
he may be removed at any time by a majority vote of all its members.
At least 30 days before such removal is to become effective, the Council
shall furnish the Manager with a written statement setting forth its
intention to remove him and the reasons therefor.
The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his executive
and administrative abilities, with special reference to his actual
experience in or his knowledge of accepted practices with respect
to the duties of his office as herein outlined. The Manager need not
be a resident of the Borough or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
at the time of his appointment, but during the tenure of his office
he may reside outside the Borough only with the approval of Council.
If Council fails to approve the Manager's residence outside the Borough
within 60 days after his appointment, he must immediately become and
during his tenure remain a resident of the Borough. Further, if at
the time of the appointment the Borough Manager shall reside within
the Borough, he shall not take residence outside the Borough without
prior approval of Council, which approval shall be valid and binding
during his tenure.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Before entering upon his duties, the Manager shall give a bond
of the Borough with a corporate bonding company as surety, to be approved
by the Council, in the sum to be established by resolution of the
Borough Council, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his
duties, the premium for said bond to be paid by the Borough.
[Amended 4-1974 by Ord. No. 387; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art.
I)]
The salary of the Borough Manager shall be as adopted by the
Borough Council.
The Mayor is hereby authorized to delegate to the Borough Manager,
subject to revocation by written notification at any time, any of
his nonlegislative and nonjudicial powers and duties.
Neither the members of the Council nor any committees of Council
shall dictate or influence or attempt to dictate or influence the
hiring of any person to, or his discharge from, municipal employment
by the Manager, or in any manner take part in the hiring, suspending
or discharging of employees in the administrative service of the Borough
except as required by the civil service provisions of the Borough
Code. Other than for the purposes of inquiry, the Council or any of
its members or any of Council's committees or its members shall deal
with the employees in the administrative service solely through the
Borough Manager and neither the Council nor any of its members, nor
any of Council's committees or its members shall give orders - publicly
or privately - to any subordinate of the Manager.
If the Manager becomes ill or needs to be absent from the Borough,
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 Council.