The office of Township Manager is hereby created
by the Board of Supervisors.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A. The Board of Supervisors may by ordinance at any time create the Office of Township Manager and may in like manner abolish the Office. While the Office exists, the Board of Supervisors shall appoint one person to fill the Office. The Township Manager shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors, subject to contractual rights that may arise under an employment agreement that may be entered into in accordance with Subsection
B.
B. The Board
of Supervisors may enter into an employment agreement with the Township
Manager. The employment agreement may set forth the terms and conditions
of employment, and the agreement may provide that it shall remain
in effect for a specified period terminating no later than two years
after the effective date of the agreement or the date of the Board
of Supervisors' organizational meeting following the next municipal
election, whichever shall first occur. An employment agreement entered
into pursuant to this subsection may specify conditions under which
a Township Manager would be entitled to severance compensation, but
in no event shall an employment agreement guarantee employment through
the term of the agreement or confer upon the Township Manager any
legal remedy based on specific performance.
The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis
of executive and administrative abilities, with special reference
to the duties of the office as herein outlined. The Manager need not
be a resident of Upper Uwchlan Township or of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania at the time of appointment, but during the tenure of
office he may reside outside Upper Uwchlan Township only with the
approval of the Board of Supervisors. If the Board of Supervisors
fails within a reasonable time, not to exceed 60 days after the appointment,
to approve the Manager's residence outside Upper Uwchlan Township,
he must immediately become, and during his tenure remain, a resident
of Upper Uwchlan Township.
Before entering his duties, the Manager shall
give a bond, in the sum of no less than $50,000, which may be increased
from time to time by the Board of Supervisors, said bond to be in
favor of Upper Uwchlan Township with a bonding company as surety,
satisfactory to the Board of Supervisors, conditioned upon the faithful
performance of his duties, the premium for said bond to be paid by
Upper Uwchlan Township.
The salary of the Township Manager shall be
fixed from time to time by the Board of Supervisors.
The Board of Supervisors, its members, and its
committees shall not 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 this hiring, suspending or discharging
of employees in the administrative service of Upper Uwchlan Township
except as required by the civil service provisions of the Township
Code or the provisions of the Local Agency Act. Other than for the purposes of inquiry the Board of Supervisors
or any of its members or any of the Township committees or its members
shall deal with the administrative service solely through the Manager,
and the Board of Supervisors or any of its members, the Township committees
or its members shall not give orders, publicly or privately, to any
subordinate of the Manager.
If the Manager becomes ill or needs to be absent
from Upper Uwchlan Township, 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 Board
of Supervisors.