Chapter 2.20
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
Sections:
2.20.020 Appointment, removal, and the like.
2.20.010 Office created.
There is created within the town government the office of director of public works. [Code 1983 § 2-61. Code 2000 § 33.40].
2.20.020 Appointment, removal, and the like.
The office of director of public works is to be filled by the appointment of a single person by the town council. The town council shall have the power at any time to remove the director of public works and to fill the vacancy created thereby. [Code 1983 § 2-62. Code 2000 § 33.41].
2.20.030 Oath and bond.
(A) Before any director of public works shall enter upon his duties, he shall be required to take and subscribe an oath of office.
(B) He shall file an individual surety bond in the sum of $15,000, payable to the state of Indiana, pursuant to IC 5-4-1-10; such bond must be approved by the town clerk-treasurer and conditioned upon the faithful performance of the public works director’s duties, including the duty to comply with IC 35-44.1-1-1 and the duty to account properly for all monies and property received by virtue of the employee’s service in the office or position.
(C) The premium upon said bond shall be paid by the town. Said bond may be executed with any recognized and responsible surety company authorized to do business in the state, pursuant to IC 5-4-1 et seq.
(D) The bond and oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk-treasurer and recorded in the office of the county recorder of Lake County.
(E) The individual surety bond described in this section shall be construed to satisfy the requirements of IC 8-1.5-3-5(c) to the extent that the public works director may serve as superintendent or manager of the water utility as described in HMC 12.05.060(A)(2)(c). [Ord. 1681 § 2, 2018].
Statutory reference: Officers’ bonds and oaths, see IC 5-4-1-1 et seq.
2.20.040 Powers and duties.
(A) The director of public works shall be required in the performance of duties to devote his full time to performing the duties of his office during the usual business hours of each day and to attend the regular meetings of the town council and such special meetings as the board shall determine from time to time. The director of public works shall refrain from doing any work or performing any services in the town on his own free time which would, or might, create or cause a conflict of interest.
(B) The director of public works shall have charge of and be responsible for the operation and functioning of the sanitation department, the street department, the water department, and the sewer department. He shall have such other duties as the town council shall from time to time designate and delegate to him. The director shall be directly responsible to the town council and in the operation of each of the several departments under his jurisdiction shall be specifically responsible to the individual member of the town council responsible for the functioning of that respective department.
(C) Subject only to any specific order of the town council, all employees in the several departments under the jurisdiction of the director of public works shall be subject to the supervision, direction and authority of the director of public works. [Code 1983 § 2-64; Code 2000 § 33.43].