§ 5.1. General powers; duties; responsibilities of the Town Manager
Subject to the provisions of law and under the supervision of the Selectboard, the Town Manager shall have the authority:
(1) to cause duties required by law or by the Selectboard or school directors, and not committed to the care of any other particular officer, to be performed and executed;
(2) to ensure the performance of all duties now conferred by law or by this charter on the Selectboard, except where prohibited by law;
(3) to be the general purchasing agent of the Town and cause the purchase of all supplies for every department;
(4) to have charge and supervision of all public Town buildings and repairs thereon;
(5) to perform all the duties now conferred by law upon the road commissioner;
(6) to ensure that the appropriate accounting procedures are followed for all Town departments;
(7) to supervise the expenditure of all special appropriations of the Town, unless otherwise voted by the Representative Town Meeting;
(8) to control and supervise, and to be the appointing authority for, all Town departments;
(9) to ensure the collection of all taxes due the Town, including delinquent taxes as permitted by law and unless otherwise voted by the Representative Town Meeting;
(10) to perform on behalf of the School District such of the duties in this section as the school directors may request. (Amended 2003, No. M-6, § 2; 2011, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 27, 2012.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 107 - Town of Brattleboro
App § 2.4. Representative Town Meeting
App § 2.6. Board of School Directors
App § 2.7. Board of Library Trustees
App § 2.8. Consolidation of services
App § 2.9. Conflict of interest
App § 2.10. Limits on terms of office
App § 4.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 4.6. General powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Selectboard
App § 5.1. General powers; duties; responsibilities of the Town Manager
App § 6.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 6.6. General powers and responsibilities of the School Directors
App § 7.1. Capital expenditures
App § 7.2. Capital Grant Review Board
App § 7.4. Reappraisal of property
App § 7.5. Lapse of appropriation
App § 7.7. Borrowing in anticipation of taxes
App § 7.8. Office of Assessment
App § 10.1. Representative Town Meeting; authorized
App § 10.2. Districts; report of Selectboard; meetings; voting
App § 10.4. Nomination of candidates; preparation and delivery of ballots; return of unused ballots
App § 10.5. Resignation or disqualification of members; vacancies; how filled
App § 10.6. Voting; members to receive no compensation; quorum; warning
App § 10.7. Articles in warning; action on
App § 10.9. Interpretation of Town acts
App § 11.1. Description of officers, officials, boards, commissions, and committees