[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Woodbury 11-2-1995
by L.L. No. 12-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
The Town Board hereby finds that for many years there
has been a problem of maintaining the town's buildings and grounds in
that such buildings and grounds are either maintained by the Park and Recreation
Commission, Highway Department or directly by the Town Board. The inefficiency
of such operation has been emphasized to the Town Board on a number of occasions,
and it especially becomes paramount during the budgetary process during the
fall of each year. The Town Board believes that a more efficient maintenance
of the buildings and grounds would be to establish a separate department whose
sole responsibility was to maintain, including the repairing of, all buildings
and grounds owned by the Town of Woodbury. While the Highway Department and
the Water and Sewer Department would continue to maintain their own facilities,
such a Buildings and Grounds Department would be responsible for all other
town buildings and grounds within the Town of Woodbury.
B.
The Board believes that by establishing such a department
to be headed by an individual who would be subject to the direction of the
Town Board a more efficient manner of maintaining and repairing the buildings
and grounds, including all park and recreation buildings, would be achieved.
There is hereby established a Woodbury Buildings and Grounds Department
whose responsibility shall be to maintain any and all buildings and grounds
within the Town of Woodbury, including, without limitation, the parks and
recreation facilities, libraries, Town Hall, Police Station and, where required
by the Town Board, any and all other buildings within the town, including
the office and garage complex maintained by the Water and Sewer Department.
The Buildings and Grounds Department shall be headed by an Administrator
to be employed by the Town Board, who shall be subject to the Town Board's
direction and who shall serve at the pleasure of the Town Board. The Administrator
shall be responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of all town buildings
and grounds, shall be responsible for establishing the annual budget for the
maintenance of buildings and grounds and shall, with the consent of the Town
Board, be responsible for all employees hired by the Town Board to fulfill
and carry out the intention of this chapter.
The Administrator of the Buildings and Grounds Department shall file
a monthly report with the Town Board as to the activities of the Department
in repairing and maintaining all buildings within the town. Such a report
shall be in a format to be established by the Town Board and the Administrator
immediately after this chapter is adopted.
