CENTERVILLE —
Monday night the Centerville City Council will listen to the first reading of an ordinance amending the municipal code Chapter 2.16 mayor's position and creating a new Chapter 2.17 for a city administrator's position.
Ordinances must be read and council-approved three times without changes and then published before it becomes part of the municipal code. The council can decide to waive the second or third readings expediting the process.
Kim Crego, city clerk and commissioner of municipal services, said the city administrator position is a new job title being added to the municipal code. The job description has to be in the code before it can be offered to anyone.
Once part of the municipal code, the City Council has several options: 1. Appoint Crego as the city administrator; 2. Publish the job description and solicit applications; 3. Not fill the newly created position.
Crego said the powers assigned to the city administrator are needed. A city administrator would be a public official accountable to the citizens of Centerville, she said.
"I think it's important that the city of Centerville has someone that is responsible for the function of government and is held accountable," Crego said. "A lot of these duties and responsibilities are not given to anybody and somebody needs to hold these duties and responsibilities. I think it's time."
Chapter 2.17 details the duties, powers, compensation and other items the new position of city administrator would possess.
According to Chapter 2.17, the city administrator has the power to "investigate the affairs and conduct of any City department, agency, office or employee. ..."to hire, discipline, discharge, promote, or reclassify all city employees" subject to Veterans Preference Law and Civil Service Law provisions.
The city administrator will have the power "To appoint or employ persons to fill all places for which no other mode of appointment is provided and to administer oaths of office."
The city administrator's duties includes the positions of city clerk, commissioner of municipal services, city treasurer and community development coordinator.
Amendments to Chapter 2.16, mayor's position, are needed because that position went from full-time to part-time, which meant some duties and responsibilities were not being addressed, Crego said.
"So who do those duties and responsibilities fall to?" Crego said. "Where do they land? So you have to identify that and say, 'OK, who's going to do these functions' or would you say, 'It's not a function of the city anymore.' So they (City Council) have to go through this exercise to identify where the functions of city government fall."
In other action, Lee Den Hartog has asked to talk to the council about the cost of repairs for the city's tennis courts.
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