Local Administration

Executive power:
Mayor, Vice-mayor and town hall's personal machinery

Legislative power:
The Local Council is comprised of 19 municipal councilors The first documentation of a Local Administration governing Uricani dates from 1818.

Mayor Office
Uricani City Hall -
Address: Str. 1 Mai, Nr. 6
- Phone: 0254/511 121
- Fax: 0254/511 127
- E-mail: primaria.uricani@xnet Mayor's short biography
The city's mayor is Gheorghe Suciu

The Town Hall
The Town Hall represents the executive of the Local Council. The Mayor is the head of the Public Local Administration and he's responsible for its good functioning in front of the Council. The Mayor represents the commune in the relations with physical and judicial persons from country and from abroad, as well as in justice.

Main functions of the mayor:
· He ensures that 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 are abided by;
· He ensures the implementation of decisions adopted by the County Council;
· If he thinks that a Local Council decision is illegal he has to announce the Prefect within three days of the illegal decision
· He can propose referendums for important issues to the Local Council, and he has to organize the referendums if the Local Council approves them;
· He drafts the local budget proposal and the balance of closure of the budget and submit them to the Local Council for approval;
· He exercises the rights and fulfills the responsibilities of the city or village in its quality of juridical civil person;
· He 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 arelegal;
· He exercises control over commercial activities, public alimentation and services, within the law's boundaries;
· He 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;
· Controls the hygiene of public locals and of alimentary products put on commercialized for the population with the support of the specialized institutions;
· He 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 signalization (road signs) and ensures the normality of the traffic; · He oversees the fairs, market-places, and amusement parks and takes operational measures for their good functioning;
· He leads the public local services including the civilian status services and child care;
· He oversees the observance of the social assistance, social care and child care laws;
· He appoints and dismisses from function the City-Hall personnel except for the secretary;
· He proposes the dismissal from function of the heads of the commercial and public institutions that are under the authority of the Local Council; ·
· He controls the activity of the City-Hall personnel.

The mayor has other attributions as enumerated in the Public Administration Law no. 215/2001 or as entrusted in him by the Local Council.

Local Council

The Local Council is an authority of the Public Local Administration. The Local Councils of villages, towns, as well as territorial - administrative subdivisions of the Bucuresti municipality are composed by councilors elected by universal, equal, direct, secret and free expressed vote, in the terms of the Law regarding the local elections.

The councilor's mandate end before term, in case of:
· Death;
· Resignation;
· Incompatibility;
· Change of residence in other territorial - administrativedistrict;
· Unexcused absence at more than three ordinary meetings of the council;
· Difficulty in serving on more than six month period;
· In the case of decision, by judicial court, that the election was won by electoral fraud or any other violation of the Law regarding the local elections;
· In case of conviction by final judicial court with a retribution that restricts him/her from his freedom;
· In case of debilitation or mental illness that would prevent them from properly conducting there job, or in case of losing the electoral rights.

Local Councillor Function

· 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.

Councilor - citizen relationship:

According to the law, the councilors are in the service of the collective, meaning in the service of citizens, and that's why the relationship citizen councilor must be permanent. In problems of special interest for the community, the law gives the possibility of consulting the citizens by a referendum. But initiating a referendum is practically impossible because presently there are not any special regulation regarding organizing and developing a referendum. This legislative deficiency may be supplemented for now by polls, which create the conditions of citizen participation in the decision making process for the high interest decisions.

City Departments and Commissions

Of the Town Hall
City Departments and Non-Municipal Services

The employee's of Uricani's City Hall are divided into departments and public services:
· Local public administration, civil stare, tutelary authority, social protection (4 persons)
· Local taxes (2 persons)
· Finance - budget, book keeping (2 persons)
· Agricultural (1 person)
· Humane resources (1 person)
· Town-planning and territorial fitting-out (2 persons)
· Pay office (1 person)
· Commercial control (1 person)
· Public services of salubrization and communal management (20 persons, from which ten are hired on unlimited period of time)
· Prognosis, programs and economical analysis (1 person)
· Urbanism and territory arrangement (2 persons)
· Civil protection (1 person)
· Land register (1 person)
· Sanitary - veterinary cabinet (1 person)

Under the Uricani Town Hall authority functions the Cultural Club that includes: a town library, show rooms, free time spending rooms, games, sport ground, spectacle rooms, etc, the activity of this Club being provided by three persons.

Of the Local Council

The Committee for economic and social forecasting, budget, finances and local public and private administration

The Committee for city development, public services, environment protection, historical and architectural monuments protection

The Committee for education, health, culture, social protection, sports, entertainment:

The Committee for local public administration, guaranteeing the rights and liberties of the citizens and the public order

 

Source: DEEP