(A) Appointment; Term; Powers. There is created the office of Director of Public Works, an administrative office of the village. The Director of Public Works shall be appointed by the Village Manager, with the consent of the Board of Trustees including the Village President, for an indefinite term. He shall have the management and control of all matters pertaining to the Department of Public Works.
(B) Bond; oath. The Director of Public Works, before entering on the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by statute and shall furnish a surety bond in the amount of $1,000.
(C) Compensation. The Director of Public Works shall receive such compensation as the President and Board of Trustees shall from time to time provide by ordinance.
(D) Employees; appointment; removal. The Director of Public Works may appoint and discipline all assistants and employees of the Department, as provided in the personnel manual, set out in Appendix A following Chapter 37.
(E) Improvements - streets, sewers, gas, water. The Director of Public Works shall have charge of all public improvements commenced, or to be commenced, by the village, to regulate and control the manner of using the streets, alleys, highways, and public places of the village, the erection of telegraph poles, or other poles or posts, signs, canopies, and other overhead structures, and the laying down of gas, water, steam, or other pipes, conduits, and sewers authorized by law or ordinance of the village, and to determine the location thereof. He shall cause the prompt repair of the streets, alleys, highways, and public places whenever the same are taken up or altered.
(F) Other duties. The Director of Public Works shall also have charge of all construction and maintenance of all streets, sewers, watermains, and all service pipes or private water pipes in the streets, alleys, and public grounds of the village, and of all tapping of watermains and pipes and the making of water service connections therewith. The Commissioner of Public Works shall furthermore have charge of softening plants, pumping stations, wells, tanks, reservoirs, grounds, buildings and appurtenances thereto and the distribution of water thereby, and shall be responsible for the efficiency of the same.
(G) Enforcement of ordinances. The Director of Public Works shall enforce all ordinances, rules, and regulations pertaining to the Department of Public Works, including but not limited to all ordinances, rules, and regulations pertaining to the payment of bills for water.
(H) Records and reading of water meters.
(1) The Director of Public Works shall keep a complete and accurate record of all taps inserted, their exact location, their number and size and the length and sizes of all service pipes with the location of the shut-off boxes. He shall direct all turning on or cutting off of water.
(2) The Director shall cause to be made readings of all water meters connected with the village water system, and shall keep accurate records of such readings. He shall in addition perform such other duties as may be required of him by ordinance or resolution of the Board.
(I) Reports. The Director of Public Works shall, within the first 15 days of each month, file with the Village Clerk his written report for the month preceding, showing in detail all expenditures for payroll, materials, and repairs, all income from the operation of the Department, and all matters relating to its administration.
(J) Books of accounts; bills; permits.
(1) The Director of Public Works shall keep, or cause to be kept, full and complete books of account showing the exact condition of the financial affairs of the Department. For this purpose, he shall establish a complete and comprehensive system of bookkeeping which shall also show how much water is supplied to each piece of property in the village and the amount charged therefore.
(2) He shall also cause to be made a complete and correct map of all watermains, connections, valves, hydrants, and cutoffs, sewers and their appurtenances, now or hereafter constructed, showing their location. At each time a water or sewer permit is granted, the Director of Public Works shall enter, in a book provided for that purpose, a record of the permit showing the size of the connection, the size of the meter on water connections and the amount of all charges and fees collected.
(K) Receipts and disbursements. The Director of Public Works shall control and direct all expenditures to be made by the Department of Public Works. He shall, before the same are presented to the Board of Trustees for approval, certify as to the correctness of all bills and accounts.
('71 Code, Ch. 11, §§ 1-2 through 1-12) (Ord. 191, passed 11-5-58)