(A) Offices. In addition to the Municipal authorities mentioned in the section above, the City shall have and there are created, the following Municipal offices:
(a) City Manager
(b) City Clerk
(c) Police Court Judge
(d) City Attorney
(e) City Financial Director
(f) City Engineer
(g) Chief of Police
(h) Chief of Fire Department
and such other departments, commissions and boards as the governing body of the City may create by ordinance.
The City Council shall have the power to create additional administrative offices and to abolish any of the offices by it created.
(B) Appointment. The City Manager shall be appointed by the Mayor with the consent and approval of the Council; all other offices mentioned in Section 2-A of this section shall be filled and appointed by the Mayor upon the recommendation of the City Manager with the consent and approval of the Council. All appointments shall be for the duration of the term of the Council or unless sooner removed as hereinafter set forth. Whenever the Mayor shall fail to make any and all appointments under him, as are required to be made by him, for a period of thirty days from the time such appointment shall have been made, after having been requested by Council by resolution so to do, such appointment may be made by the Council. All appointed officers, other than the City Manager, must be residents of the City of Weirton for at least one year prior to their appointment and must continue to reside in the City for the duration of their term.
(C) Removal. All appointed officers may be removed from office by the Mayor, but in the event of such removal, the discharged officer may appeal to the Council, and, if such an appeal is taken, Council shall hold a public hearing and the removal shall not be effective unless approved by a majority vote of the Council present at the council meeting, after such public hearing. Council after such public hearing shall also have the power to remove an appointed officer by a majority vote of the Council present at the council meeting after affording him/her a public hearing.
(D) Compensation. The City Manager and other administration officers holding offices created by Article III, Section 2
of this Charter, or which shall be hereafter created by the City Council, shall receive such salary, compensation and wages as the City Council shall from time to time by ordinance or resolution fix and prescribe.
(Amendment passed by electorate 6-12-07) (Am. Ord. 2060, passed 3- 25-19; Am. Ord. 2061, passed 3-25-19; Am. Ord. 2062, passed 3-25-19; Am. Ord. 2063, passed 3-25-19)