Local Administration

The local public administration's authorities that are responsible for the local autonomy are:

· The Local Council as a deliberative body.
· The Mayor as an executive body.
· The Local Councils and the Mayor's office function as authorities of the local public administration.

The Mayor and Local Councilors are all elected for 4-year terms to carry out the mandates of their respective offices. The mandate is exercised under the provisions of local and national laws. In order to insure local autonomy, local public authorities have the right to establish and levy local taxes, to elaborate and approve revenue and the expense budget of the City.

Mayor Office

City Hall consists of the Local Council and public administrative offices. These organizations are co-located at Libertatii Street, No. 85. The public administration offices, (Mayor, Vice-Mayor, public services) are part of the same institution. The mayor supervises all local public administration and local public authorities.

Aninoasa City Hall
Address: Libertatii Street, no 85
Phone: 0254/512 108; 0254/512 871
Fax: 0254/512 758

Office of the Mayor Mayor's Functions:
The Mayor is responsible for the efficient and effective functioning of the public administration. He also represents the City in relations with other public authorities, and both official and non-official individuals.
The Mayor has the following responsibilities:
· Ensures the upholding of the fundamental rights and the liberties of the citizen, the Constitution, the laws of the state, the decrees of the President of Romania, the Government decisions, the papers issued by ministers and other authorities of the central public administration and the decisions of the County Council;
· Ensures the implementation of decisions adopted by the County Council;
· Must notify the Prefect within three days of discovery of any suspected illegal Local Council decision.
· Can propose referendums for important issues to the Local Council, and has to organize the referendums if the Local Council approves them;
· Drafts the local budget proposal and the balance of closure of the budget and submits them to the Local Council for approval;
· Exercises the rights and fulfills the responsibilities of the city or village in its quality of legal and civil rights for the citizens;
· Ensures the public order through public guards and with the help of the gendarmerie, police, firemen and public defense. The latter have the duty to respond to his requests, provided that they are within legal frame;
· Exercises control over commercial activities, public alimentation and services, within the law's boundaries;
· Takes measures towards the suspension or interdiction of public shows or other public manifestations that contradict the legal order or are contravene to the public morals or public order;
· Supervises measures for public health and hygiene and of commercialized health/medical products with the support of the specialized institutions for the public;
· Distributes social homes on the criteria approved by the Local Council;
· Ensures the maintenance of the public roads of the village or city, provides proper signage (road signs), and ensures the efficient functioning of traffic;
· Oversees the fairs, market-places, and amusement parks and takes operational measures for their proper functioning;
· Leads the local public services including the civilian status services and child care;
· Oversees the observance of the social assistance, social care and child care laws;
· Appoints and dismisses from function all City-Hall personnel except for the Local Council Secretary;
· Proposes the functional dismissal of the heads of the commercial and public institutions that are under the authority of the Local Council;
· He supervises the activity of the City-Hall personnel. The mayor has other roles and responsibilities as listed in the Public Administration Law No. 215/2001 or as entrusted in him by the Local Council.

The Local Council's organization and functional regulations are approved by the Local Council. The Vice-mayor is elected from among the Local Council's members. The Council's domains of activity are represented by functional committees. City Counselors are voted into the Council via a universal, secret vote in accordance with the laws pertaining to local elections.
The City Council has legislative power in all issues of local interest. The Council cannot make decisions on matters where the decision power is granted by law to other local or national public institutions.

Mode of Operation of the Local Council

The Local Councilors are elected for a 4-year term of office. The Local Council is operational from the date of its creation until the next Local Council is declared legally created.
The Local Council meets on a monthly basis at the Mayor's request. It can also meet at any other date at the Mayor's request, or if at least two thirds of the Local Councilors request a meeting. In case of emergency the convocation of the Local Council can be done at once.

The agenda of the Local Council Meetings must be made public through any media services available. The Local Council meetings are public except for the cases when it decides, with majority of votes, that the meetings should be done behind closed doors. The problems regarding the local budget, the public and private domain administration, the participation to local, regional, zonal or international development programs, the urban development issues, as well as those regarding the association and cooperation with other public authorities, NGOs, public or private institutions and individuals, will always be discussed in public meetings. On these specific issues the mayor can ask for a referendum.

The Local Council can take decisions based on the vote of the majority of the present members, unless the law or regulations request another type of majority. The decisions regarding the local budget, the public and private domain administration, the participation to local, regional, zonal or international development programs, the urban development issues, as well as those regarding the association and cooperation with other public authorities, NGOs, public or private institutions and individuals, will always be adopted with a majority of two thirds from the total number of Councilors.

The decisions regarding the local budget as well as those concerning local taxes are also adopted with a majority of two thirds of the total number of Councilors. The resolution drafts can be submitted either by the mayor or by one of the councilors. The one that submits the proposal drafts the text, aided by the secretary and the specialized services within the City Hall.

The compliance with the resolutions with local law character is mandatory; they become so as soon as they are brought to public knowledge. The individual resolutions become mandatory from the date they are communicated to their object. The publication of the resolution is made five days after it is sent to the Prefect's Office.

During their term of office the Local Councilors are serving the local community, therefore, the Councilors have to organize regular meetings with the citizens and have specific days in which they have to be open for the public. Each Councilor, as well as the Deputy Mayor has to make an annual report of their activities, which has to be made public by the secretary.

All the Councilors are responsible for the Local Council's activity. Each Councilor is responsible for his or her activity, as well as for the resolutions they voted for. After it's coming into office, the Local Council organizes its own committees, each dealing with a specific field of the Council's responsibilities. The Deputy Mayor is the only exception to the aforementioned rule. The Committees analyze and approve the resolution drafts concerning their responsibilities.

Local Councillor Function

The Local Council has responsibility for solving all local problems. The only exceptions are those that are already assigned through law within the competency of other public authorities.

The responsibilities and functions of the Local Council are as follows:

· Elects from among its councilors the Deputy Mayor or Deputy Mayors and also determines the exact number of the City Council employees.
· Approves the Statute of the city and/or village as well as the Regulations pertaining to the Council's own organization and operation.
· Endorses and approves research studies or economic and social development programs. It can also give its approval to studies that document local zoning practices, urban development, as well as other development programs that bridge the gap between local, national and transnational cooperation and development efforts.
· It approves the local budget, the loans and the ways of spending the local budgetary reserve; it determines the local taxes as well as other particular taxing practices.
· At the mayor's request, it approves the administrative/organizational chart, job descriptions, the number of employees and the regulations regarding the proper functioning within its own institution as well as for other public, service-related institutions.
· Sets guidelines for the public and private spheres of activity for the city.
· Determines whether or not the public facilities are leased, sold and it grants concessions for the local interest public services, within the recommendations of the law.
· Analyzes and approves the urban development plans and decides upon the financial means necessary to accomplish the plans. Moreover, it decides upon the amount that is allocated to the prevention of damages caused by floods, fires, natural disasters and other dangerous meteorological phenomena.
· It decides upon the measures that have to be taken for the maintenance and upgrading of the local infrastructure.
· Approves, within the law's boundaries, the economical and technical documentation of the local interest investments and insures the funding for their accomplishment.
· Insures the financial and material conditions necessary for the good functioning of the public services and institutions (mainly oriented on health, education, youth, sport, fire prevention, public safety and civilian protection). The Local Council also monitors and controls the activity of the aforementioned institutions and services.
· Contributes to the organization of scientific, cultural, artistic, sporting and entertainment activities
· Is the decision-making power concerning public safety issues, analyzes the conduct and the efficiency of the public guardians, police, gendarmerie, fire department and civil protection institutions and it has the power to suggest improvement strategies.
· Has an active role in the protection and restoration of the environment, as a means to improve the quality of life; it contributes to the protection, conservation, and restoration of historical monuments and natural reservations.
· Contributes to social protection and assistance measures; ensures the compliance with the children's rights legislation; endorses the criteria for the social apartments' use; creates and ensures the performance of local interest social assistance institutions
· Establishes and organizes fairs, markets, recreational zones and parks, sporting facilities and insures their good operation.
· Decides on the names of the Streets, markets and other local public interest sites.
· Insures the freedom of commerce and encourages the private initiative, within the law's boundaries.
· The Local Council has other functions as well, all established by law.

City Departments and Commissions

Of the Town Hall

The city hall's organization is the following:

· The service of local public administration, tutelary authority, civil status social assistance- composed by 6 persons: service chief, two referents social assistance, one referent social status, one inspector of children protection and one typist
· The Agricultural-Land Office- constituted by four persons: office chief, one agricultural inspector one land register referent and one forestry technician
· The center for citizen's information and Public Relation- three persons : one public relation referent, one computer operator, and one minorities referent (HG 430/2001)
· Human resources Compartment - composed by two persons: one councilor and one referent
· The service of financial budget, accountancy, excise taxes and taxes - seven persons: one service chief, four referents and two inspectors
· The urban and territory arranging Office, the Civil protection, extern financing, the environment's protection - composed by 6 persons: one office chief, two specialists referents (SSD studies) and three inspectors
· Serving personal - one caretaker, three watchmen and one driver
· The Cultural Center Iscroni - one administrator, one librarian, one caretaker and two watchmen

Of the Local Council

The Town Council from Aninoasa is structured into 3 different specialized committees:

1. The Committee for Socio-Economic Development, Budget, Finances, Commercial Services, and The Public And Private Domain

2. The Committee for Urbanization And For Public Works of Achievement, Environmental Protection, Conservation of Architectural and Historical Monuments

3. The Committee For Education, Health, Culture, Social Protection, Sporting Activities, Local Public Administration, Consumer's Protection, Citizen Rights

The selection process for assigning council members to specific committees is determined by the councilman's background. Once the committees are formed, the committee members elect a president and secretary from the committee body.

 

Source: DEEP