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<br /> appoints the members of the Finance Committee, will reduce the number of departments reporting
<br /> and the School Committee appoints the School directly to the Town Manager by an additional
<br /> Superintendent and the Business Manager. For two department heads.
<br /> the record, the School Committee also appoints
<br /> the Director of Special Education and all School 3. Regarding the town agencies involved in plan-
<br /> Nurses. ning, conservation, health, and inspectional ser-
<br /> vices, the framers of the Charter suggested in
<br /> Except for the Town Clerk and the Library Director, Section 5-6 that the town might want to consider
<br /> all the positions below the position of Town Manager creating a Director of Community Development
<br /> are either appointed by and/or directly responsible to to coordinate the activities of the Planning,
<br /> the Town Manager. The organizational changes being Inspectional Services, Conservation, and Board
<br /> recommended are as follows: of Health Departments. In light of the significant
<br /> growth in Mashpee over the past decade, and
<br /> 1. Starting from the left, the first position below the considering the anticipated future growth, e.g.,
<br /> Town Manager is the position of Assistant Town the approved Mashpee Commons expansion,per-
<br /> Manager. In 2005, at the recommendation of the haps a successful marketing effort by the EDIC,
<br /> Town Manager, the position of Director of additional residential development, as well as the
<br /> Finance was created. Subsequently that position planning, expansion and implementation of a
<br /> was changed to Assistant Town Manager which sanitary sewer systems in the future, the need to
<br /> provides direct staff assistance to the Manager. coordinate the activities of these agencies may
<br /> well exist.
<br /> As noted, Section 5-5 of the Charter suggested
<br /> that a Director of Municipal Finance position For these reasons, the committee is recommend-
<br /> might be advisable as a way of consolidating all ing establishing, at least for Administrative Code
<br /> the finance-related functions. This option was purposes,a Director of Community Development
<br /> considered, but rather than creating an additional position commensurate with the level of the
<br /> position, the Town Manager opted to have the police, fire and DPW department heads.
<br /> i not recommending
<br /> three finance-oriented departments, i.e., However, the committee s g
<br /> Treasurer/Collector, Town Accountant, and immediately filling the position,particularly now
<br /> Director of Assessing report to the Assistant when the housing market and building construc-
<br /> Town Manager, not in a Finance Director capac- tion are at low points and significant budgetary
<br /> ity, but rather as a coordinator of those depart- constraints exist. Further, the three present
<br /> I mental functions, thereby relieving the Town department heads currently enjoy a good,coordi-
<br /> Manager of those day-to-day responsibilities. nated working relationship as it pertains to the
<br /> I While on the table it is shown as being proposed review of building and construction plans and the
<br /> via a dashed line, this relationship has been in inspections required as construction proceeds
<br /> i effect for over a year, is working well, and meets from licensing to the final inspections prior to the
<br /> the spirit and the intent of the Charter recom- issuance of certificates of occupancy or approval.
<br /> mendation while reducing the number of depart- However, it should be noted that one significant ('
<br /> ments reporting directly to the Town Manager by advantage of the director position is that it would
<br /> three. then include the activities of the Planning
<br /> Department in the responsibilities of that posi-
<br /> 2. In the present Table of Organization, all the tion. Not only would this provide improved
<br /> departments and offices were shown on the same coordination of the town's planning, zoning,
<br /> 1 line, which implies all having equal status and health, environmental and development activi-
<br /> responsibility as Department Heads. As the con- ties, but it would also reduce the number of
<br /> sulting firm's reclassification survey indicated, department heads reporting to the Town Manager
<br /> the three largest municipal departments, i.e., by an additional four positions. This would bring
<br /> Police, Fire and DPW, have significantly more the Town Manager's span of control responsibil-
<br /> employees and much larger budgets than the oth- ities into a much more manageable range.
<br /> ers, and therefore, the committee recommends
<br /> those three departments be shown higher on the 4. Regarding the "resident services" departments,
<br /> organizational chart than the other municipal i.e., Human Services, Leisure Services, and
<br /> departments. Further, since the Harbormaster Senior Citizens Services. While the consulting
<br /> and the Shellfish Warden activities are enforcing firm employed to study the town's organization
<br /> in nature the committee recommends that those recommended the creation of a director position
<br /> two offices report to the Chief of Police. This to oversee those services, the Charter was silent j
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