The town administrator shall have the power and shall be required:
(a) To submit to the council, not later than ninety days prior to the start of the next fiscal year, a proposed budget of receipts and expenditures and an explanatory budget message. For such purpose the town administrator shall obtain from the head of each office, department and agency except the school committee, estimates of its revenues and expenditures and such supporting data as he or she may request. In preparing the proposed budget, the town administrator shall review the estimates and may revise them as he or she may deem advisable. The budget as proposed by the town administrator shall show all anticipated revenue and all proposed expenditures except those for school purposes, and the total of such expenditures shall not be greater than the total of anticipated revenue. The town administrator shall request from the school committee its budget of estimated expenditures and revenues for transmission to the council. He or she shall incorporate the total of these expenditures and revenues with the total he or she has arrived at for general town purposes, but shall not have the authority to increase or decrease any item in the school committee's budget.
(b) To see that the laws and ordinances are enforced.
(c) To appoint, subject to the confirmation of the town council, the heads of all administrative departments of town government provided for in this Charter or which shall be provided for in the future, but not including the superintendent of schools. He or she may remove any of the aforementioned department heads for whom he or she is the appointing authority; provided, that any person so removed shall have the right, within ten days of receipt of written notice of his or her removal, to petition the town council for a hearing before that body. Following any such hearing, the council shall convey its conclusions to the town administrator, but his or her decision to confirm or rescind the dismissal shall be final.
(d) To determine the compensation of all officers and employees under his or her jurisdiction subject to the approval of the council.
(e) To assign additional duties to officers, agencies or departments established by the Charter, but he or she may not discontinue or reassign duties assigned to specific organs under this Charter.
(f) To prepare and submit to the council, as of the end of the fiscal year, a complete report on the finances and administrative activities of the town for the preceding year, which report shall be printed and made available to the citizens.
(g) To coordinate the activities and programs of all departments and agencies of the town including any and all boards or commissions whose members are chosen by the town council. All such departments and agencies shall submit periodic reports to the town administrator as he or she shall direct, and supply him or her with any and all information regarding their work which he or she may request.
(h) To perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this Charter or required of him or her by the council. (Amended, November 4, 2008.)