(A) Creation; appointment. There is created the office of Director of Finance who shall be the head of the Department of Finance and shall have the management and control of all matters and things pertaining thereto. The Director of Finance shall be appointed by the Village Manager.
(B) Bond; compensation. The Director of Finance and ex officio Village Collector shall execute to the Village a bond as required by statute in an amount to be determined by the Board at the time of his appointment. He shall receive such compensation for his services as the Board of Trustees shall determine.
(C) Powers.
(1) The Director of Finance shall be the fiscal agent of the Village and as such shall be charged with and shall exercise general supervision over all officers of the Village charged in any manner with the receipt, collection or disbursement of the Village revenues and all funds required to be in the custody of the Village Treasurer.
(2) He shall have charge of all deeds, mortgages, leases, contracts, judgment orders, notes, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness belonging to the Village, except such as are directed by law or ordinance to be deposited elsewhere. He shall have supervision of the making of all contracts, the issuance and sale of bonds, warrants and obligations and the purchase, sale, lease or disposition of all property of the Village.
(D) Filing of annual tax levy. The Director of Finance shall, as required by law, file with the County Clerk a certified copy of the annual tax levy ordinance in which the total amount of the tax levy for all corporate purposes of the Village legally made is levied and assessed.
(E) Village Collector. The Director of Finance, as Village Collector, shall prepare, collect and execute all special assessments and other warrants which, by law or the ordinances of the Village, may be executed by him and shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon a Village Collector by law or the ordinances of the Village.
(F) Disposition of moneys collected. The Director of Finance shall promptly turn over to the Village Treasurer daily on each business day, all moneys collected by him on account of the Village, and take his receipt therefor.
(G) Accounts. The Director of Finance shall keep an accurate account of all Village funds received by him and he shall also keep in suitable books for that purpose an accurate and detailed account of each and every special assessment levied for any improvement, and when it shall appear from such books that all costs and expenses of any improvement which has been made by special assessment have been paid and satisfied, and that there has been a sum of money collected over and above the entire cost of such improvement, he shall report to the Village Manager such fact and state in writing the amount of such excess. The Director of Finance shall also keep an account of all rebates on special assessments ordered by the Board of Trustees, issue warrants therefor to the respective persons entitled thereto, and shall keep an account of the same, and whenever the full amount of any such rebate has been paid out shall report the fact to the Village Manager.
(1997 Code, § 3.13)