Office of the Mayor

The Mayor exercises the executive power of the municipality and performs the following functions:

• Enforces the charter and ordinances of the municipality
• Supervises all municipal departments
• Fixes the amount of salary or wages paid to employees of the administrative departments subject to contractual obligations, within the general limits of the municipal budget
• Supervises care and custody of municipal property
• Can require reports from and investigate any municipal department, board, commission or agency
• Appoints and removes department heads, subject to council approval
• Appoints members to municipal boards, authorities or commission subject to council approval
• Designates an acting mayor in times of illness or absence

• Review, analyze and forecast trends of municipal services, programs and finances
• Oversees the municipal budgeting, purchasing and personnel procedures
• Prepares the municipal operating and capital budgets

• Negotiates contracts subject to council approval
• Signs all contracts, bonds, and other instruments requiring the consent of the municipality
• Sees that all contractual and franchise terms and conditions are kept and performed

• Gives the annual State of the Township address
• Serves as an ex-officio, nonvoting member of all appointive bodies of which he/she is not an official voting member

• Can attend council meetings and take part in council discussions
• Can vote to break a tie on the question of filling a vacancy on the council
• Can propose legislation
• Can veto ordinances, subject to override by a 2/3 majority of the whole council
• If the mayor takes no action on an ordinance (neither signs nor veto) within ten days of its submission by council, the measure becomes law as if he/she had signed it.