City manager - who is this? Official duties

According to the law, which came into force on 01.01.2006, the head of the city administration may be not only an elected person, but also a "hired man". Such a manager works on a contract basis.

City manager is a person appointed tothe post of the head of the city administration. The contract is signed for the period established by the charter of the city administration. It is chosen such a leader on the basis of the competition. The contract can be concluded for not less than two years.

Requirements for a candidate

The position of a city manager assumes the presence ofrights and responsibilities that are associated with the adoption of decisions of the city level. In order for the future leader to carry out his work as efficiently as possible and useful to the territorial subject entrusted to him, he must meet certain requirements.

The most significant:

the right to be elected and elected;
age from 25 years;
higher professional education;
experience of work from three years on municipal or state positions or on the leading positions of the state or municipal service;
positive recommendations from previous places of work;
knowledge of regional and federal legislation;
availability of an opinion from the state expertcommission that there is an opportunity to carry out the duties of the head of the administration on the issues of exercising state powers, which are transferred to the self-governing bodies by legislation.

Carrying out of competition

Appointment to the post is preceded by a competition. The City Manager is selected according to the procedure established by the local representative body of the municipality.

Duties

A large number of responsibilities are performed by a city manager. The head of the administration controls this process.

Obligations that the contract manager must perform may vary, but most of them are the same for all cities in Russia.

The duties include:

publication of resolutions addressed to the city administration on those issues of local importance;
issue resolutions that relate to the implementation of certain state powers transferred to local governments;
issue of orders addressed to the city administration on the organization of the administrative process of the administration itself;
taking measures to ensure and protect the interests of the municipality in court proceedings, state bodies and arbitration court;
drafting of the budget, draft programs, and plans for socio-economic development;
management and disposition of the city's revenue and expenditure estimates;
solution of issues and organization of the city's tax policy;
management of urban property issues, municipal education plan, municipal economy;
appointing and dismissing those employees of the service that are under his authority.

Reporting

The City Manager is an employee who has a great responsibility not only to the higher management who has concluded an agreement with him, but also to the entire city and its inhabitants.

In this regard, he is obliged to report annually on the results of his activities to the City Duma.

In addition, the legislation clearly regulates the permitted types of training for the manager. So, he has no right to engage in entrepreneurial activity and any kind of business.

Main activities

A new city manager is appointed to the post orthe contract is prolonged with the employee, who satisfied all the requests, is not so important. It is important that in any case, the activities of a specialist will be associated with certain points.

The main activities are:

compliance with the regulations and requirements of the city administration;
observance of internal regulations, rules of etiquette;
fulfillment of all norms of record keeping;
work on the consideration of complaints, appeals, letters, petitions, proposals, other documents that are received by the administration;
processing of documentation from associations, citizens, organizations, enterprises or institutions in electronic or oral and written forms;
organizing the necessary events that accompany the performance to the award;
preparation of presentation projects for the award;
the preparation of the staffing table, the development of the organizational structure, monitoring compliance with the developed schemes;
ensuring control, as well as participation in drafting work plans of the city administration;
the coordination of works on the issues of material and technical support of the city;
organization of necessary meetings, including with the participation of the city head;
organization of activities of various bodies that are created during the election campaign;
assisting commissions in the conduct of elections;
the chairman of the housing commission, the personnel reserve, the evacuation commission, the supply of goods and the performance of work or services for the administration.

Even such moments as the development of the symbols of the city, the printing and preparation of souvenirs, fall within the scope of the manager's responsibility.

Interaction

The work of the city manager implies interaction with the representative body of the municipal formation, to which he is accountable and before whom he reports.

If the city has a scheme in whichparticipate and the mayor and city manager, then the first in this situation - the head of the city, a politician who manages the city. The mayor communicates with the Council of Deputies of the city. Its functions are representative.

City manager is the executor. He is responsible for the current situation in housing and communal services, energy, transport. Its tasks include organization of the relevant work of the municipal economy, budget execution and management of municipal property.

In his work, the manager manages the Constitution of the Russian Federation, charters and laws, the Charter of the city, as well as morality and ethics.

For the disclosure of state secrets, personalinformation of citizens or other information that is confidential, is liable in accordance with the norm established in the legislation.

Position Advantages

The post of the city manager has several advantages.

The most significant pluses:

The requirements that are imposed on the applicant provide a certain level of candidates;
the contract that is concluded with the employee is prescribed clearly and without vague authority;
selection of a candidate on the basis of a competition does not require financial expenses of the same size as are necessary for the organization of the election process;
in the case when the employee does not perform his job or does not meet the requirements, he can be dismissed, and the competition for replacement can be re-conducted;
the head of the administration will not have to perform ceremonial duties;
the manager must be completely apolitical and impartial in decision-making;
When identifying the inefficiencies of the newsystem can always roll back the control system to the previous version, this event will not require additional costs, and management will pass into the hands of the mayor.

Payment

City manager is not only a bigresponsibility, but also a worthy reward. If the employee fulfills his duties in accordance with the expected level, and the results of the work are high and have positive dynamics, then payment is made in several articles, each of which consists of a sum with several zeros.

Payment consists of:

salary;
The allowance, which is relied on every month by municipal workers;
increases for long service;
monthly premium;
extra charges for work with certain information that are state secret;
Award, relying for the performance of complex and particularly important tasks;
material assistance and a one-time payment when taking leave.

disadvantages

Like every solution, the transition to a new systemmanagement is accompanied by both laudatory reviews and criticism. If you judge objectively, then the appointment of a city manager for a city can carry certain disadvantages.

Negative points can be:

the manager does not obey the population;
the employee is not associated with long-term plans;
the dependence of the manager on that governor and the city council, which initiated his hiring, is clearly traced;
often there are conflicts with the heads of administrations.

Experience in Russia

For the first time in the world, the post of manager, who manages the city on contract, appeared in 1908 in the American town of Staunton.

In October 2003, there was aan order was issued in which such a contract management form was authorized. By 2009, there were more than 9,000 municipalities, which in practice used such a management system.

At this stage in Russia, this approachis used in such cities: Tyumen, Kurgan, Perm, Tula, Priozersk, Murmansk, Barnaul, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Norilsk, Blagoveshchensk, Orenburg, Orel, Tambov, Tobolsk, Kostroma, Bratsk, Nefteyugansk, Noyabrsk, Ulan-Ude, Elista, Azov, Asbest, Efremov, Serpukhov, Lipetsk, Podolsk, Balashikha, Khimki.

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