Administrative
Code - The town manager may from time to time prepare and propose
plans of organization or reorganization for the orderly, efficient
or convenient conduct of that portion of the business of the Town
for which the town manager is responsible by or under this charter.
Whenever the town manager prepares such a plan the town manager
and 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 later 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 board of selectmen for its final review.
An organization or reorganization plan submitted by the town
manager shall become effective at the expiration of thirty days following
the date of its submission to the board of selectmen unless the board
of selectmen by a vote of at least three of its members has sooner
voted to approve or to reject it.
The town manager may, through the administrative code, and subject only to express prohibitions in a general law, or this charter, reorganize, consolidate or abolish any Town agency, in whole or in part; establish such new Town agencies as is deemed necessary to the same extent as is provided in section
5-1 (a), above, for bylaws; 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 agency to another; provided, however, that no function assigned by this charter to a particular Town agency may be discontinued or, assigned to any other Town agency unless this charter specifically so provides.