Mayor, director of municipal administration and deputy mayor : a love triangle

Prebilič, Vladimir (author), Kukovič, Simona (author)

The paper analyses the question of relations between the mayor and the director of municipal administration on one hand and between the mayor and deputy mayor on the other, particularly in terms of division of competences. The paper also deals with the standpoints of mayors and deputy mayors regarding the institution of deputy mayor. Furthermore, it verifies the assumption that the current regulatory framework regarding the appointment (and determination of competences) of the director of municipal administrationand deputy mayor is not entirely appropriate. Based on the analysis of objective data and research surveys among mayors, directors of municipal administration, and deputy mayors of Slovenian municipalities, we analyse the problems of the functioning of those actors. We learn that currentSlovenian legislation is in favour of consolidating the position and power of the mayor, because he/she can freely appoint, dismiss, and determine the competences of the highest official in the municipality as well as of the deputy mayor

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2013
• Number of pages: Str. 231-258
• Numbering: God. 13, br. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-36006
• UDC: 352.075.31.01(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 1848-0357
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32065885
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava
• Publisher: Institut za javnu upravu ... [etc.]
• ISSN: 1848-0357
• COBISS.SI-ID: 958177

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian

Abstract

U radu se analizira pitanje odnosa gradonacelnika i direktora gradske uprave sjedne strane te gradonacelnika i dogradonacelnika s druge strane. Posebna se pozornost poklanja podjeli njihovih ovlasti. Razmatraju se i stajališta gradonacelnika i dogradonacelnika o funkciji dogradonacelnika. Nadalje, potvr đuje se pretpostavka da sadašnji zakonodavni okvir koji regulira imenovanje i nadležnosti direktora gradske uprave i dogradonacelnika nije sasvim primjeren. Na temelju analize podataka i rezultata dobivenih anketom provedenom među gradonacelnicima, direktorima gradske uprave i dogradonacelnicima slovenskih lokalnih jedinica, analiziraju se problemi funkcioniranja tih aktera. Ocito je da važece slovensko zakonodavstvo podržavakonsolidaciju položaja i ovlasti gradonacelnika, buduci da on može po volji imenovati, razriješiti i odrediti ovlasti najvišeg službenika lokalne jedinice kao i dogradonacelnika