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Home My WebLink About0117 £ , CITY OF LAREVILLE ORDINANCE N0. 117 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE POSITION OF CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES THEREOF The City Council of the City of Lakeville ordains as follows: Section 1. Position Re-Defined. The existing position of City Administrator is hereby affirmed and shall have the duties prescribed hereinafter. Section 2. Appointment of City Administrator. The City Administrator shall be appointed by a ma3ority of the City Council for an indefinite term. He may be removed from office after thirty (30) calendar days written notice only by a majority of the City Council with or without cause. If he has served as City Administrator for one year, written charges and a public hearing on the charges before the City Council shall be provided if requested by the Administrator prior to the date wherein his re- moval takes place. The public hearing must be held within thirty (30) calen- dar days after presentation of the charges and he must receive the charges at least ten (10) calendar days before the public hearing. Section 3. Qualifications. The City Administrator must have considerable knowledge of municipal government operation, proper procedures, public relations, personnel management, finances, purchasing and all administrative requirements for proper municipal operation. He must have knowledge of or ability to acquire full knowledge of all laws affecting the municipality. He must have the ability to encourage harmonious relations with municipal employees and the general public. He must have the ability to coordinate development, to collect and analyze material for reporting and to initiate and implement standards of procedure, operation and organization. He shall have a Bachelor's degree is public administration or its equivalent and five years experience in municipal administration. He shall be selected solely on the basis of his executive, administrative and education- al qualifications. Section 4. Duties and Responsibilities. The City Administrator shall be the chief administrative officer of the City and he shall be responsible to the City Council for the proper admin- istration of all affairs of the City and to that end shall be empowered and required to: r A. Supervise the administration of all departments, offices and divisions of the City except as otherwise provided by law and carry out any other responsibilities placed under his juris- diction by this ordinance or by subsequent Council action. B. He shall interview and screen prospective City employees as permitted by law and shall make recommendations to the Coun- cil before the Council makes any appointment; he shall also make recommendations for terminating and suspending employees and may suspend any employee until the next Council meeting when the Council shall affirm, modify or rescind the suspen- sion. C. Prepare and submit a proposed annual budget to the City Coun- cil and keep the City Council advised of the financial con- dition of the City and make such recommendations as he may from time to time determine desirable and necessary. D. Attend and participate in discussions at all meetings of the City Council and other official bodies as directed by the Council. He shall be responsible for the preparation of the City Council agenda. E. He shall see that all laws and ordinances are duly enforced. F. He shall handle all personnel matters for the City in con~unc- tion with policy established by the City Council. He shall negotiate or delegate the negotiation of terms and conditions of employee labor contracts for presentation to the City Coun- cil. He shall conduct annual evaluation and review of work performance of all department heads. G. He shall issue purchase orders for previously budgeted items when the amount thereof does not exceed $1,000 and he shall receive estimates, quotations, sealed bids, proposals and contracts in excess of $1,000 and present them to the City Council for official action. H. The City Administrator shall represent the City at official functions as directed by the City Council and maintain a good public relations with the citizens of the community. I. Recommend from time to time the adoption of such measures as he may deem necessary or expedient for the health, safety and welfare of the community or for the improvement of the admin- istration. J. He shall monitor all consultant and contract work performed for the City. He shall coordinate the activities of the City Attorney. Section 5. Additional Duties. The City Administrator may be designated as the City Clerk by the City Council and be responsible for the statutory duties of the City Clerk position. Section 6. Compensation and Benefits and Employment Conditions. The City Administrator shall receive such compensation as the Coun- cil shall fix from time to time by resolution and by the terms of an employ- ment agreement. -2- . Section 7. Separability. Each and every section, provision or part of this ordinance is dis- tinct and separable from each other section, provision or part; and shall one or more section, provision or part be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such declaration shall not affect the balance of this ordinance. Section 8. This ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of its publication. ADOPTED this 6th day of March ,1978. CITY OF LAKEVILLE BY y Gordon E. Lekson, Mayor ATTEST: ~J S Patrick E. McGarvey, City Cler -3- CITY OF LAKEVILLE ORDINANCE NO. 117 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE POSITION OF CITY ADMINISTRA- tor and the duties -and responsibilities thereof The City Council of the City of Lakeville ordains as follows: Section 1. Position Re -Defined The existing position of City Ad- ministrator is hereby affirmed and shall have the duties prescribed hereinafter. Section 2. Appointment of City - Administrator. The City Administrator shall be ap- pointed by a majority of the City Council for an indefinite term. He may be removed from office after thirty (30) calendar days written notice only by a majority of the City Council with or without cause. If he has served as City Administrator for one year, written charges and a public hearing on the charges before the City Council shall be provided if requested by the Administrator prior to the date wherein his removel takes place. The public hearing must be held within thirty (30) calendar days after presentation of the charges and he must receive the charges at least ten (10) calendar days before the public hearing. Section 3. Qualifications. The City Administrator must have The Lakeville Times (Affidavit of Publication) Box K Lakeville, Mn. 55044 STATE OF MINNESOTA SS COUNTY OF DAKOTA J t Rick Adelmann, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times herein stated has been the publisher and printer of the newspaper known as THE LAKEVILLE TIMES and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news column devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and adver- tisements. (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least 240 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second class -matter in its local post - office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the Village of Lakeville in the County of Dakota and it has its known office of issue in the City of Lakeville in said county, established and open during its regular business hours for the gather- ing of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the publisher or persons in his employ and subject to hs direction and control dur- ing all such regular business hours and at which said newspaper is printed. (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has complied with all the foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit, in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by publisher of said news- paper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the news- paper is a legal newspaper. (9) Said newspaper was on May 20, 1965 qualified as a medium of official and legal publication and has continually thereafter met the foregoing conditions. He further states on oath that the printed 41' -nuc fo 117 Jtereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week p i- Cc._ successive weeks that was first so ,-.Vh � p� � published on Wednesday the 1 `. day of 4ww' ` 19 7? day of 19 and that was thereafter printed and published on on every Wednesday to and in- cluding the I day of oJ'V .. 197'and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet fromA to Z. both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to - wit: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Subscribed and sworn to before me this lS day of 1\11191 CYNTHIA 4 STEEN IMAM MIMI • MINNESOTA AUNTY My Commissfoe Expires Sept 30, t9£te MI 0.1 Ute" l fl Q�'X 'NOTARY Public, Dakota County, Mn. y Commission expires