Secretary

Yanko Kostadinov

The Secretary of the Municipality shall organize, coordinate and supervise the functioning of the municipal administration to ensure that regulations are strictly complied with.

In the absence of the Mayor and Deputy Mayors, the Secretary shall exercise the general direction of the Municipal Administration, without executive authority within the meaning of Article 44 of the Municipal Act.

The Secretary of the Municipality:

1. organize and be responsible for the activities of the municipal administration, the working conditions of the employees and the information and technical support of their activities;

2. organise and be responsible for the clerical services, document management and the municipal archives;

3. organise and be responsible for the activities of the civil registration and administrative services units;

4. organise and be responsible for the publication and promulgation of the acts of the Municipal Council and of the Mayor of the Municipality;

5. organise and be responsible for dealing with applications, complaints, signals and proposals from citizens and legal entities;

6. organise and be responsible for keeping the electoral rolls in the municipality up to date, the organisational and technical preparation and the holding of elections and local referendums;

7. approve the Internal Rules on the order and organisation of the administrative services for natural and legal persons;

8. organise the appraisal of employees in the municipal administration;

9. approve the job descriptions of the employees in the municipal administration;

10. supervise the keeping of the register of religions;

11. organise and supervise the performance of tasks and actions related to the implementation of the Administrative Procedure Code, the Law on Administration, the Law on Civil Servants and the by-laws related to their implementation.

12. ensures technical and organizes the international cooperation of the municipality, bilateral and multilateral projects in which it participates;

13. organise the exchange of experience and the implementation of good practices in the work of the administration;

14. gives an opinion on the legality of draft acts and decisions of the Municipal Council;

15. is responsible for education, culture, maintenance and preservation of cultural, historical and architectural monuments of municipal importance;

16. performs other functions assigned to it by the mayor of the municipality, by law or by another normative act